An insider’s view on the heart of NumPy: a conversation with Ralf Gommers

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In this episode, I have a wonderful conversation with Ralf Gommers, a director of Quansight Labs, and he's a key contributor to NumPy. He shares his journey of how he started working on and contributing to several open source projects. But more importantly, the journey that he took inside NumPy.
NumPy is a project that most scientific computing projects rely on heavily. Ralf shares the thought behind its governance model, the importance of having community funding models, and how to maintain long term open-source projects.

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An insider’s view on the heart of NumPy: a conversation with Ralf Gommers

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