--- title: "Once a Maintainer: Ralf Gommers" url: https://daily.dev/posts/once-a-maintainer-ralf-gommers-mrz0udyzl source_url: https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-ralf-gommers type: article source: "RUBYLAND" published: 2024-03-15T14:25:05.727Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z tags: ["python", "open-source", "data-analysis", "numpy"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 0 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Once a Maintainer: Ralf Gommers **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Ralf Gommers, Co-Director of Quansight Labs and leading contributor to NumPy, discusses his journey in software engineering, the time he dedicated to open source projects, and the focus of NumPy with the release of version 2.0. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@zorki** · 0 upvotes > Halaldi size qaqa ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#data-analysis](https://daily.dev/tags/data-analysis), [#numpy](https://daily.dev/tags/numpy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/once-a-maintainer-ralf-gommers-mrz0udyzl)