blog: grant

[reshamas]

cross post only after this PR has been merged in:
Quansight/Quansight-website#428

NumFOCUS announcement:
https://numfocus.medium.com/numfocus-projects-receive-nasa-grants-deee374e7a57

Proposal:
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/cmdocumentid=843923/solicitationId=%7B958CF134-D655-E512-B5AD-84501D14A0C1%7D/viewSolicitationDocument=1/OSTFL20%20Abstracts.pdf

3 year grant to fund maintenance of NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn, with a line item focused on sharing CI expertise between projects. At a high level, on the scikit-learn side:

1. Maintenance: Triaging & Code Review, etc.
2. Improve Performance: Single node using Cython+OpenMP and running on other array libraries (CuPy)
3. Improve Pandas interoperability