[mlpack] mlpack weekly video meet-up/meeting time survey

[Ryan Curtin]

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 <ryan at ratml.org> 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?"
> > > ryan at ratml.org |   - Mike LaFontaine
> > 
> 
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