BONUS CONTENT: "4 voices, 1 Community." One stack that only works because people fund it. We’re doing one last recap of Give Me 5 Season 2 this week — catch up and donate before Max the Stack wraps: hubs.la/Q04ylJ1K0

Over the years, we’ve shared hundreds of talks, tutorials, ideas, and more for free on our YouTube account, PyDataTV (available at hubs.la/Q04ylHtV0)! We’ve been excited to grow this platform to over 170,000 subscribers, following along with the incredible content our community has developed. The best part is that every video is free to view. Help keep it open, free, and growing by supporting NumFOCUS and Maxing the Stack at hubs.la/Q04ylHpj0

Spyder’s second 6.2 alpha landed this month — new interface themes, Pandas dataframe export straight from the Variable Explorer, and Polars support. Small quality-of-life features add up to a better daily tool for thousands of scientific Python users at hubs.la/Q04ylDDc0

Bokeh 3.10 shipped with ASGI support — meaning Bokeh apps can now run on FastAPI, Starlette, Django, or Streamlit without Tornado. Plus GPU-accelerated rendering for filled polygons and faster load times for dashboard-heavy apps. Real feature work, funded by real support. Donate now: hubs.la/Q04x94Q-0

Q3 budget cycles are closing. If your team runs on the scientific Python stack, this is the window to make sure the projects you depend on stay funded going into winter. Max the Stack today: hubs.la/Q04x94x_0

ITK released version 5.4.7 this month — steady, incremental maintenance on a toolkit that powers medical and scientific image analysis worldwide. This is the unglamorous work that funding makes possible. Max the Stack and donate today at hubs.la/Q04x93Zh0

Thank you to everyone who came by to chat with us during @pydataamsterdam 2026 last week! And an extra special thank you to the organizers and volunteers who helped pull the whole event together. 🧡

Julia’s team has posted release notes for the upcoming v1.13.0 — the next step in a language built for scientific and numerical computing. Behind every release cycle is a community that keeps showing up, and support that keeps them able to. Max the Stack: hubs.la/Q04x93Bm0

CuPy shipped v14.2 this month — another steady release in a project that GPU-accelerates NumPy-style computing for thousands of researchers. Releases like this don’t happen without maintainers who have the time and backing to ship them. Donate now at hubs.la/Q04x938T0

What a great first day of PyData Amsterdam! If you’re there, be sure to stop by the NumFOCUS booth. We’d love to chat!

Grant cycles turn over. Budgets tighten. Fall is exactly when open source maintainers need to know the support is still there. Max the Stack keeps the scientific computing ecosystem funded through the season — be part of it: hubs.la/Q04x92LT0

From talking journeys into OSS to building communities to hot takes on AI, Season 2 of Give Me 5 brought together 10 people who shared insightful perspectives on the open source scientific ecosystem. The best part? Even though everyone had their own backgrounds and opinions, every conversation was driven by a passion to see innovation thrive. We're busy working on Season 3, and we can't wait for you to see what's coming up next!

We are so excited for the kick-off of @pydataamsterdam 2026 tomorrow! To help set the tone, we’re highlighting some of the best parts of our Give Me 5 interviews with co-chairs Kally Chung (Season 1) and Alexander Oude Elferink (Season 2). Plus, we’re giving you a sneak peek at our Season 3 talk with another PyData Amsterdam committee member, Konstantinos Tsoumas! Here’s to a great conference this weekend! Don’t wait to enjoy the Give Me 5 series and get free access to 1,500+ PyData conferences by subscribing to the PyData YouTube channel! piped.video/@PyDataTV

Come say hi at PyData Amsterdam! We'll have staff members at the NumFOCUS booth throughout the conference for you to talk to! We'd love to talk about ways we can collaborate on ways to support our projects and the open source scientific community!

Awkward Array’s team just rebuilt their GPU backend — swapping thousands of lines of hand-written CUDA C++ for ordinary Python — and made it faster in the process, with some benchmarks running over 1,000x quicker at scale. That’s the kind of deep infrastructure work that only happens when a project has the runway to do it right. Max the Stack: hubs.la/Q04wL_dp0

MDAnalysis just landed a Research Software Maintenance Fund grant — enough to hire a dedicated Research Software Engineer. That’s what sustained backing does: it turns “someone squeezes this in” into “someone’s job is to make sure this works.” Support like Max the Stack keeps that momentum going. hubs.la/Q04wL-c40

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Season 2 of Give Me 5 brought together people from across the open source and data science community — and this is the best of all of it in two minutes. From grad school origin stories to hot takes on AI, from "I didn't like coding" to running conferences with 1,200+ attendees — Season 2 showed what open source science looks like when real people show up for it. Season 3 is coming. Subscribe so you don't miss it at piped.video/@PyDataTV/