Welcome, Jim to the project. Looking forward to learning more from your vast experience of open source development.
Best, Sandeep On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 7:36 AM Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > It is my pleasure to (re)join the PPMC!! > > Thanks! I whole-heartedly accept. > > On Jun 16, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Naveen Swamy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Jim, > > It was great meeting you in FOSS backstage and thank for your offer to > mentor the project. We discussed within the MXNet ppmc and would love to > accept your offer to mentor our project. > > Your vast experience in building open source projects and communities > around it will be very helpful to grow our project and work towards > graduation, we look forward to learning from you. > > To give you a brief background of MXNet: > MXNet was a research project driven by PhD students from CMU, UW, NYU and > professionals working in many other organizations under the DMLC umbrella. > In mid 2016 some of the contributors joined Amazon and continued to > contribute to MXNet. In Jan-2017 a proposal was made to Incubate at Apache, > Amazon was supportive of this initiative and has been contributing in terms > of code and documentation and also partnering with other organizations such > as Nvidia and Intel to further advance MXNet. > (request ppmc members to fix/fill in any details that I might have > missed.) > > Welcome to MXNet!. > > Thanks, Naveen > > > > > > > > -- Sandeep Krishnamurthy
