Reshama Shaikh of has organized three open source (OS) sprints in 2019. For more information, see About the WiMLDS Sprints.

Scikit-learn sprint

OUR GOAL

To increase the participation of women and gender minorities in the open source community.

PURPOSE

The participation rates by women are quite low for:

• open source: 11%
• python: 2%
• scikit-learn: <1%

The sprints are being organized to:

• Involve more women and gender minorities in scikit-learn and open source
• Contribute to scikit-learn library
• Build momentum for continued contribution
• Widen the pool of open-source contributors

BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATING & CONTRIBUTING

• obtain mentorship via pull requests from experienced core contributors
• learning experience
• networking opportunity
• contributing to open source weighs favorably in finding a job

BACKGROUND

About the WiMLDS Scikit-learn Open Source Sprints (Reshama Shaikh)

Nairobi WiMLDS 2019 Sprint Impact Report (Reshama Shaikh)

• Scikit-learn Sprint at Nairobi, Kenya (Adrin Jalali)
• Highlights from the 2019 Nairobi WiMLDS Scikit-learn Sprint (Mariam Haji)

WiMLDS Sprint Impact Report (2017-2018) (Reshama Shaikh)

• Highlights from 2018 WiMLDS NYC / Scikit Sprint (Reshama Shaikh)

Interview with Andreas Mueller (Reshama Shaikh)