I strongly support this as well - Let us know when the wiki draft page is ready. The Clojure MXNet contributors have some cool stuff to share :)
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:49 AM Junru Shao <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mu, > > Thanks for proposing this! Strongly agree with the newsletter - this would > be the most economically efficient way to enhance community involvement. > > In addition to the draft wiki pages, should we send posts like "Call for > newsletter articles" to dev@ list with some frequency? This could help > maximize the community awareness and help active community members get more > exposure - Community building is important. > > Thanks, > Junru > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:57 PM Chaitanya Bapat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello Mu, > > > > Thanks a lot for bringing this topic. I had thought about a Weekly Digest > > for MXNet (weekly newsletter) - which is on similar lines (can be made > into > > Monthly if it sounds good). > > > > Here's the quip doc - > > https://chaitanya.quip.com/BT6RAcAigHM9/MXNet-Weekly-Digest > > > > I have talked about the Background, Motivation, Features and a mockup of > > Newsletter. > > > > Would love to hear our community's thoughts as well as yours on the same. > > > > Please find attached a snapshot of the Weekly digest I came up with. > > > > Thanks, > > Chai > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 19:59, Mu Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Dear Community, > >> > >> I propose to send a monthly summary to users to broadcast the recent > >> progresses in the community. It will not only include new features added > >> into MXNet, but also various community activities. Here is an example: > >> > >> Tutorials > >> - 10 new lectures teaching at UC Berkeley > >> - Video record for "Deploying with Java" at Java World 19 > >> Computer Vision > >> - GluonCV 0.4 release supports pose estimation and improves 10 existing > >> models > >> - Insightface added a new model XY > >> NLP > >> - GluonNLP 0.5.1 release improves BERT training > >> New Projects > >> - A MXNet implementation for paper XY > >> MXNet > >> - Enhanced Java binding preview > >> - Numpy frontend reaches milestone 1 > >> Incoming Events > >> - Meetup at Palto Alto on 4/2 > >> > >> The publishing procedure is we first create a draft wiki page so > everyone > >> will have a chance to review and add staffs. After that we will send it > >> through an email list. > >> > >> I'm considering to use a 3rd party service such as mailchimp.com so > that > >> every user can subscribe it easily and we can do some marketing analysis > >> as > >> well. But I'm happy to re-use [email protected] if it provides > >> simliar > >> functionalities. > >> > >> I'd like to hear your feedback for how to make the newletter more user > >> friendely. > >> > >> Best > >> Mu > >> > > > > > > -- > > *Chaitanya Prakash Bapat* > > *+1 (973) 953-6299* > > > > [image: https://www.linkedin.com//in/chaibapat25] > > <https://github.com/ChaiBapchya>[image: > > https://www.facebook.com/chaibapat] < > https://www.facebook.com/chaibapchya>[image: > > https://twitter.com/ChaiBapchya] <https://twitter.com/ChaiBapchya > >[image: > > https://www.linkedin.com//in/chaibapat25] > > <https://www.linkedin.com//in/chaibapchya/> > > >
