Project Jupyter joins LF Charities
We are excited to announce that Project Jupyter is entering a new phase in our journey: we are joining LF Charities, a 501(c)(3) non-profit under the Linux Foundation. See the official press release from Linux Foundation and the blog post from NumFOCUS.
In the last decade, Jupyter has grown tremendously. From our roots as an evolution of the IPython project, Project Jupyter is now the de facto standard for interactive computation in data science, scientific computing, and machine learning. The software and standards developed by the Jupyter community span a rich and diverse ecosystem that includes data science, geospatial data analysis, physics, chemistry, CAD, and many other areas.
In order to sustain this momentum, continue innovating in the space of interactive computational tools for thinking and collaborating, and better serve our community, we are introducing the new Jupyter Foundation, a vehicle for the project to formally engage with industry partners and other organizations. We invite organizations of all types, including companies, government agencies, and non-profits who support our mission to join us through the Jupyter Foundation. For information on joining, please see https://jupyterfoundation.org.
As background for this change, the Project Jupyter Executive Council began exploring options for the next phase of our growth over a year ago. In March 2024, we presented a high-level proposal to the community for Jupyter to transition to LF Charities as its legal home. An open discussion was hosted on GitHub for the community to discuss this idea, generating a lot of feedback, which was incorporated into the main proposal document. Once discussion settled, on June 14, 2024, we moved to a formal vote as per our governance model, in which the Jupyter Executive Council and the Jupyter Software Steering Council jointly approved moving forward with the transition to the LF Charities. We have since then worked with both NumFOCUS and Linux Foundation leadership to formalize the transition, which is completed today. We sincerely thank NumFOCUS for their support of IPython and Jupyter, and we look forward to continuing collaborating with the entire community of NumFOCUS projects.
If you are a user or supporter of Jupyter in any capacity, please help us spread the word about this new phase for the project, and encourage organizations to support our mission through the Jupyter Foundation.