I wanted to kickoff a discussion about community building. There was an excellent blog post from the Apache Beam Community on this https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/an-approach-to-community-building
In it they wanted to improve their contributor/committer base in the following ways which resonate with our project as well, quoting from the article: >>>> 1. We could use more committers to review all the code being contributed, in part due to recent departure of a few committers 2. We want our contributor-base (hence committer-base) to be more spread across companies and backgrounds. This is a core value of the Apache Software Foundation. In particular, the project's direction should not be dominated by any company, and the project should be able to survive the departure of a major contributor or all contributors from a particular employer. Eventually, we hope that our user base is active and diverse enough that this happens naturally. But we are not there yet, so instead we have to work hard to build our community around the software we already have. >>>> They outlined some of the steps that they took to achieve positive results in the article, which I encourage everyone to read. Every community is different, however, so things that worked well in their community might not be as effective as in ours. I wanted to kick off a discussion for ideas that people had here on community building for MXNet. Ideas and thoughts on this are most welcome. - Carin
