The pandas project

pandas is actively supported today by a community of like-minded individuals around the world who contribute their valuable time and energy to help make open source pandas possible. Thank you to all of our contributorsopen in new window.

pandas is a NumFOCUSopen in new window sponsored project. This will help ensure the success of development of pandas as a world-class open-source project, and makes it possible to donateopen in new window to the project.

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Project Governance

The purpose of the Project Governance documentsopen in new window is to formalize the governance process that the pandas project has used informally since its inception in 2008. The documents clarify how decisions are made and how the various elements of our community interact, including the relationship between open source collaborative development and work that may be funded by for-profit or non-profit entities.

Wes McKinney is the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL).

Core Team

Current Core Team:

  • Tom Augspurger
  • Chris Bartak
  • Phillip Cloud
  • Andy Hayden
  • Stephan Hoyer
  • Wes McKinney
  • Jeff Reback
  • Chang She
  • Masaaki Horikoshi
  • Joris Van den Bossche

More details and the past Core Team members can be found on the people’s pageopen in new window of the governance repo.

Institutional Partners

Institutional Partners are companies and universities that support the project by employing contributors. Current Institutional Partners include:

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