Organizers & NUMPY MENTORS
Organizers
This event is organized and run by all volunteers:
Sunayana Ghosh
Berlin WiMLDS Organizer
Email: berlin@wimlds.com
Marielle dado
Berlin WiMLDS Organizer
Email: berlin@wimlds.com
Anna Hedström
Berlin WiMLDS Organizer
Email: berlin@wimlds.com
NUMPY Contributors
NumPy is a library that is used around the world. Open source sprints are typically limited to where contributors live or where major conferences are held. We are fortunate to have support from several Numpy contributors:
Melissa is an applied mathematician and former university professor turned software engineer. She works at Quansight, developing open-source software and working on consulting projects. She has been involved with the Brazilian Python community for some time, with a focus on outreach and education. Currently, she leads the Documentation Team and works as a maintainer for NumPy.
Matti is a maintainer of NumPy and a core dev of PyPy. He works at Quansight Labs. He has a wide range of experience in industry around image and processing and near-realtime systems. He has worked with large corporations on training and open-source management, and loves mentoring and teaching.
Ross is a scientific software developer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science who works primarily on scientific Python projects such as NetworkX and NumPy. With a background in radiation instrumentation, he is a strong believer in and advocate for open source software for scientific research and the public good.
Ralf has been deeply involved in the SciPy and PyData communities for over a decade. He is a maintainer of NumPy, SciPy and data-apis.org, and has contributed widely throughout the SciPy ecosystem. He served on the NumFOCUS Board of Directors from 2012-2018.
Ralf co-directs Quansight Labs, which consists of developers, community managers, designers, and documentation writers who build open-source technology and grow open-source communities around data science and scientific computing projects.
ACKNOWLEMENTS:
RESHAMA SHAIKH
Reshama Shaikh organized the inaugural WiMLDS scikit-learn sprint beginning in 2017, and has since organized several more sprints. She has iteratively improved the process with each sprint:
2017: NYC
2018: NYC
2019: Nairobi
2019: NYC
2019: Bay Area
Reshama has also founded another inclusive community Data Umbrella which continues to hold regular OS sprints.
She created comprehensive documentation and provides guidance so that other groups are able to organize them as well:
Tania Allard
Cheuk Ting Ho
Tania and Cheuk created mentored sprints: an open effort to tackle some diversity and inclusion issues in the open-source community. As part of this they created a handbook for successful online open source sprints. You can find the Github repo of the project here.