History
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This project was started in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code project by
David Cournapeau. Later that year, Matthieu Brucher started work on
this project as part of his thesis. 

In 2010 Fabian Pedregosa took leadership of the project and made the
first public release, February the 1st 2010. See also the AUTHORS file
for a complete list of contributors.

Funding
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`INRIA <http://inria.fr>`_ actively supports this project. It has
providen funding for Fabian Pedregosa to work on this project full
time in the period 2010-2012. It also hosts coding sprints and other
events.

.. image:: images/inria-logo.jpg

`Google <http://code.google.com/opensource/>`_ sponsored David
Cournapeau with a Summer of Code Scolarship in the summer of 2007. If
you would like to participate in the next Google Summer of code
program, please see `this page
<http://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/SummerOfCode>`_

The `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_ project providing `Debian
<http://www.debian.org>`_ packaging and contributions is supported by Dr. James
V. Haxby (`Dartmouth College <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych/>`_).