WiMLDS organized three open source (OS) sprints in 2019 and WiMLDS Berlin organized its first OS sprint in January 2020. For more information, see About the WiMLDS Sprints and the WiMLDS Berlin sprint website.

NUMPY 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%

The sprints are being organized to:

• Involve more women and gender minorities in NumPy and open source

• Contribute to the NumPy 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

• be part of a community

• contributing to open source weighs favorably in finding a job

Looking for more inspiration? please check out this excellent blog post: Contributing to open source:let’s get us started or this guide to successfully contributing to open source.

BACKGROUND

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)