From Micrograntees to Members: Announcing OrangeQS as UF’s Newest Supporting Member!

We are beyond ecstatic to announce that OrangeQS has joined Unitary Foundation as a Supporting Member! Based in the Netherlands, OrangeQS builds products for fast and reliable testing of quantum chips.

This collaboration is especially meaningful because two of the OrangeQS founders, Adriaan Rol and Amber Van Hauwermeiren, began their involvement with us as Unitary Foundation micrograntees in 2021 for Quantify—less than a year after OrangeQS was founded! Since then, various members of their team have continued to participate in and support the UF community in multiple ways, including serving as maintainers during unitaryHACK and as speakers at unitaryCON.

This support comes in the midst of OrangeQS’ newest open-source project OrangeQS Juice. OrangeQS Juice is a Linux-based open-source operating system specifically engineered for quantum R&D labs. Juice operates by running a JupyterHub instance directly on the lab’s control computer, which hosts multiple shared Python kernels. Juice is currently in a closed beta phase at AQT Berkeley, QuTech and Chalmers Next Labs and will be made open-source soon!

For more information join the OrangeQS Juice channel on the UF Discord and check out orangeqsjuice.org.

“Adriaan and Amber were in an early cohort of our microgrant winners back in 2021. Their work growing for them and OrangeQS to become UF Members illustrates just what we would hope for in our community programs. The OrangeQS Team has already been a dedicated supporter of the Unitary Foundation community for years through initiatives like unitaryHACK and unitaryCON, and, on behalf of our community, we are grateful for their increased support.” - Will Zeng, President, Unitary Foundation

“We’re excited to support the vibrant UF community. Since the very beginning we have enjoyed working with the Unitary Foundation, receiving a micro-grant together with Qblox to develop Quantify and joining the unitaryHACK. Now we’re proud to introduce an open-source operating system for quantum R&D labs that we hope will be further developed together with the community. Looking forward to engaging with the best open-source quantum software community out there! - Amber Van Hauwermeiren, Co-founder & Branding Lead, Orange Quantum Systems