What We Maintain
We Defend

SciPy 2025

Tacoma, WA

July 9, 2025


Kathryn (Katy) Huff

Fission.
Chain reaction
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Physics, University of Chicago Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois.
Scipy THW Software Carpentry Data Carpentry JOSS
BIDS Logo book book
excellent team
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/file_uploads/8c2f5e2e3987caca37936973d8017409_SciPy2016GrandBallroom1.jpg
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/file_uploads/8c2f5e2e3987caca37936973d8017409_SciPy2016GrandBallroom1.jpg
teaching
research
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science Physics, University of Chicago Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois. DOE
DOE
News overwhelm. Figure Credit: UNAA.org
nnsa emergency ops center
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/pathways-commercial-liftoff-reports
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/pathways-commercial-liftoff-reports
The internet archive and the way back machine are our only hope.
Over 400 repositories, over 70 in Python
157 repositories, 35 in Python
Over 600 repositories, over 100 in Python
216 repositories, 19 in Python
Department of Veterans Affairs GitHub Hundreds of repositories, Dozens in Python
General Services Administration GitHub Over 1k repositories, Hundreds in Python
General Services Administration tools GitHub Over 1k repositories, Hundreds in Python
135 repositories, 12 in Python
39 repositories, 15 in Python
52 repositories, 17 in Python
Two repositories, neither in Python ... yet.

Continuing to do open science is enough.

But, if you want to do more...

  • consider goverment GitHub orgs
  • at federal, state, and local levels,
  • browse the repos,
  • review the issues,
  • and do what you do best.

If you can use SciPy,

you can fix issues in SciPy.

And if you can repair bugs in SciPy,

you can repair bugs in the world.

THE END

katyhuff.github.io/2025-07-09-scipy
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What We Maintain, We Defend by Kathryn Huff is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://katyhuff.github.io/2025-07-09-scipy.