Hey, thanks to everyone who showed up! I think that was nice. We thought that it would be nice if I wrote up a summary of the things we talked about. Here are a few bullet points (let me know if I forgot anything... I think I might have):
- We should do another release, and just do them more often in general, instead of waiting on everything for a milestone to be done. So, I'll release 3.2.2. I think that we can finish #1985 and #1933 before I do that. After that release happens, I'll merge the Julia bindings, meaning the following release will be 3.3.0. - The new website prototype is running at https://mlpack2.ratml.org/, and an open PR is at https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack.org/pull/9. - We agreed that it could be really nice to provide some better introductory documentation. This might include redoing or changing the models/ repository, or maybe developing notebook examples (in Python or in C++). - I think it's time to update the website to point out that we have Gitter/Matrix/IRC all integrated, but, I was going to log in to Matrix to check that everything is working and that didn't seem to work... so maybe a little longer on that one. - We discussed and opened https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/issues/2091. (I'll probably take care of this tonight, I think it's easy.) - We talked about making the changelog more readily visible from the website. Really great to see everyone. I think that we should do this again in a couple weeks---I'll take a look at the poll results and figure out what good times are. On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:09:50AM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote: > Hey there everyone, > > Just a reminder, if you're interested in participating in the mlpack > video meet-up (details below), it's today (four hours from now). :) > > Thanks! > > Ryan > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Ryan Curtin wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > As discussed in the NumFOCUS summit thread (quoted below), I think it's > > a good idea to try the weekly informal meeting, but we need to find out > > times that work for everyone. Since we're all globally scattered, > > probably we should switch up the times. So I set up this Google Forms > > survey to see what works for different people: > > > > https://forms.gle/vzZEmcKs3giL9eiH9 > > > > If you are interested in participating and want to fill out that > > document, that can help us find a good time. > > > > While we wait for the survey responses to come in, we can have the first > > "video meetup" on Thursday, Nov 21, at 1800 UTC (to do a little time > > zone mapping, that's 10am PST, 1pm EST, 7pm CET, 11:30pm IST, and 3:00am > > KST). Sorry if that doesn't work perfect for everyone (I think this > > will be especially bad for SangYeon unfortunately), but we'll have to > > try different times now and then. > > > > The meetup is informal: we don't have a specific agenda. We can all > > just show up to the zoom room below and talk about things that are on > > our minds (which actually doesn't even need to be mlpack-related, > > technically): > > > > https://zoom.us/j/3820896170 > > > > Some topics we might end up discussing could include: > > > > - how our days are going :) > > - discussion of PRs to be merged before a release > > - help debugging some issues > > - discussion of general development directions > > - interactive PR reviews? > > > > Anyway, I don't want to focus too much on an agenda, because the idea is > > that it's freeform. In fact, if some others wanted to put on meetups at > > certain times, it would definitely be okay for us to have more than one! > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 07:56:34PM +0100, Marcus Edel wrote: > > > About the informal weekly meeting, should we schedule something, maybe > > > for the end of the week? > > > > > > > On 8. Nov 2019, at 00:10, Ryan Curtin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 01:37:16PM -0500, Marcus Edel wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >>> mlpack video meetings: > > > >> > > > >> What about we create a shared document (e.g. google docs) and use that > > > >> to manage > > > >> the meetings, if someone has a particular question or topic they like > > > >> to discuss > > > >> they can write it down before the meeting. This allows us to prepare > > > >> for certain > > > >> topics. We can also keep track of what was discussed in the meetings. > > > > > > > > That sounds good to me if you want to set it up; alternately we can just > > > > send an email to the list beforehand and people could respond to it with > > > > ideas. Either is fine honestly. > > > > > > > >>> giving talks on mlpack: > > > >>> > > > >>> mlpack talks/workshops - this is a very good point. I've been doing > > > >>> some of this > > > >>> and it really pays off. The amount of user conversion you get by > > > >>> doing this is > > > >>> superior to opportunistic discoveries of the library. And I truly > > > >>> believe we > > > >>> need more users and more engagement. After all, that's why we build > > > >>> mlpack, > > > >>> right? I would add that we also need talks and workshops that are > > > >>> *not* super > > > >>> technical. For new users (consumers of the library I mean), > > > >>> metaprogramming is > > > >>> not really attractive. Instead, these users are looking forward a > > > >>> simple-useful-easy "Hello World" that delivers instantaneous value. > > > >>> Take a look > > > >>> at scikit-learn for instance, it's all about examples and ready to > > > >>> consume > > > >>> snippets. > > > >> > > > >> Agreed, maybe we can put a list together with events (local/global) as > > > >> a > > > >> starting point. > > > > > > > > Sounds good---I'll see if I can compile a list of events I'm interested > > > > in in the near future and we can share it here or somewhere. > > > > > > > >>> C++ notebooks: > > > >> > > > >> I have a setup running that I can make accessible, Sylvain used > > > >> Binder, which > > > >> has some limitations like 1-2GB of memory, kernel shutdown after 10 > > > >> minutes of > > > >> inactivity. If I'm thinking about running neural network examples, we > > > >> might run > > > >> into the mentioned limitations. > > > > > > > > Sounds good---we can also use some of mlpack.org's resources for this, > > > > and NumFOCUS might be able to help with the resources also via > > > > connections to large companies or something? I'm not sure. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ryan Curtin | "Wha' happened?" > > > > [email protected] | - Mike LaFontaine > > > > > > > -- > > Ryan Curtin | "Hungry." > > [email protected] | - Sphinx > > _______________________________________________ > > mlpack mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack > > > > -- > Ryan Curtin | "Do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?" > [email protected] | - John McClane > _______________________________________________ > mlpack mailing list > [email protected] > http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack > -- Ryan Curtin | "A present for my friends... at Thanksgiving." [email protected] | - Bruce _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list [email protected] http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
