Your Ideas, Our Support: Jupyter Community Call For Funding Proposals
The Jupyter Executive Council and Jupyter Foundation are pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Jupyter community. Visit the Jupyter Foundation Community Proposals webpage to learn more about the process and how to submit proposals. The call for proposals is open through Sunday, October 5th, 2025.
edit: We’ve decided to extend this by one week to give a few in-progress proposals time to write and submit! The new deadline is October 5th.
The Jupyter Foundation began its operations in early 2025 with a mission to use its resources to support the Jupyter community. We’ve set up the operations, structure, goals, and strategy of the Jupyter Foundation and published them on the Foundation team compass. We’ve had several rounds of feedback from the Jupyter community and defined the Foundation’s overall goals for its first year of operation.
Our first funding allocation supported events that grow the connections within the Jupyter community via the community workshops series as well as our connection with the broader data science community via JupyterCon 2025.
For the next wave of funding for the community, we’re running an experiment to directly solicit funding proposals from the Jupyter community. We think this will result in a strong clear connection between the Foundation’s funds and the needs of Jupyter’s maintainers, contributors, power users, and advocates.
The call for proposals is open through Sunday, October 5th, 2025.
Visit the Community Proposals webpage to learn how to submit a proposal and the Jupyter Foundation team compass for more detailed background about this funding call.
In this first round, one of our goals is to learn. We’d like to learn how to administer a community call like this as well as what kind of value it delivers to the Jupyter community. We’ve set minimum targets for funding disbursement and hope to grow our funding allotment as we iterate from here.
To help inspire proposals we are particularly excited to fund, we’ve defined funding priorities for the Jupyter Foundation. These are key outcomes that we must improve in order to grow the overall health and impact of the ecosystem. Briefly summarizing, these priorities are:
- Grow the contributor capacity of Jupyter. We would like to grow the number of contributors, improve the efficiency of existing contributors, and facilitate learning across Jupyter subprojects. We’d love to see proposals that help us mobilize and support the total pool of energy available to contribute to Jupyter.
- Improve the reliability, security, and consistency of Jupyter’s software and team practices. We believe that our technology will be more impactful and easier to contribute to and deploy if we improve our development infrastructure and team practices in ways that contribute to reliability, security, and consistency.
While we’re particularly excited about these outcomes and aim to focus funding on proposals that clearly feed into one or both of these priorities, we also encourage people to get creative and submit proposals for outcomes that have high impact and strategic value for the Jupyter community. We’re excited to see what others come up with, and are eager to work with you in unlocking critical funding in support of Jupyter’s community.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the support of the Jupyter Foundation and its members that makes this opportunity possible. If your organization would like to support this program, please contact the Jupyter Foundation.
