About Jupyter

Project Jupyter was born out of the IPython Project in 2014 as it evolved to support interactive data science and scientific computing across all programming languages.

Sponsors

Project Jupyter receives direct funding from the following foundations and companies:

Institutional Partners

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

Governance

Robust, community driven development with institutional backing.

NumFocus Copyright/License Decisions Steering Council
Project Jupyter is part of the non-profit NumFOCUS Foundation, which provides fiscal sponsorship, governance and a legal umbrella for the project.
We use a shared copyright model that enables all contributors to maintain the copyright on their contributions. All code is licensed under the terms of the revised BSD license.
Technical decisions are made through open community discussion and consensus, with a Steering Council and BDFL (Fernando Perez) stepping in when consensus cannot be reached.
The overall leadership, strategy and direction for the project is provided by the Jupyter Steering Council, a group of the most active project contributors that are nominated for leadership.