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Challenges in economics and governance models for open-source scientific projects

In this presentation, the CEOs of two companies at the forefront of open-source scientific software development - Sylvain Corlay of QuantStack and Yann Lechelle of Probabl - examine the intricate challenges of open-source funding and governance and reflect on how these two aspects interconnect.

We start by reflecting on the origins of the open-source movement within the scientific community, and delve into the contemporary challenges of operating businesses and identifying sustainable economic models that both leverage and contribute to open-source software.

In particular, we highlight the unique approaches and experiences of QuantStack and Probabl, which primarily contribute to multi-stakeholder scientific projects such as scikit-learn, Jupyter, Apache Arrow, or conda-forge.

Mark your calendar for the next session of the PyData Paris Meetup, on September 21st 2023. This Meetup will be hosted by EDF, 420 Rue d'Estienne d'Orves 92700 Colombes. The keynote speaker for this session, that will be dedicated to the futur of Jupyter is Sylvain Corlay. After the keynote, we propose an Ask Me Anything with Sylvain Corlay on Open source business model and governance.

7:00pm - 7:15pm: Community announcements 7:15pm - 7:45pm: Keynote by Sylvain Corlay 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Ask Me Anything with Sylvain Corlay 8:30pm - 9:30pm: Buffet

Venue EDF Defense Ouest - Grand Auditorium 420 Rue d'Estienne d'Orves 92700 Colombes Access via T2 tram, Jacqueline Auriol, 4 stations/15 minutes from La Défense or train La Garenne Colombes, 15 minutes from St Lazare. To go to the auditorium, take the first alley on the right to the RIE (Restaurant d'Entreprise), enter the building and the auditorium is on the lower level.

Bios Sylvain Corlay is the founder and CEO of QuantStack. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from University Paris VI. As an open-source developer, Sylvain Corlay is active in the Jupyter ecosystem. He is the co-creator of the Voilà dashboarding system and the Xeus C++ implementation of the Jupyter kernel protocol, and he maintains several other projects of the Jupyter stack. He is also a core contributor to conda-forge, and a several other scientific computing open-source projects, such as bqplot, xtensor, and ipyleaflet. Beyond QuantStack, Sylvain does a lot of volunteer work for the community, as a member of the board of directors of NumFOCUS, the general chair of JupyterCon 2023.

Sylvain founded QuantStack in September 2016. Prior to founding QuantStack, he was a Quant Researcher at Bloomberg and an Adjunct Faculty member at the Courant Institute and Columbia University.