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Making Your First Commit To Open Source: A Casual Conversation (2025-Feb-20)

Event Details

Event information
🗓️: Thursday Feb 20, 2025
⏰: 9 am PST / 11 am CST / 12 pm EST / 5pm GMT
Duration: 1 hour

Event recording is available

Check resources - code, presentation slides ..etc

Q & A section

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Agenda

• Welcome
• Quick intro about AI Alliance (3 min)
• Presentation: Making Your First Commit To Open Source (40 mins)
• Q&A (10 mins)
• Wrap-up

Session: Making Your First Commit To Open Source

Description

This session will follow more of a Q&A format. More details to be shared soon! Learn about:

• Why choosing the project is important
• Types of OSS communities
• What project leads care about
• Roadmap to getting involved with OSS projects
• Live demo

Session Type:
Open Q&A session

Audience:
software developers

Technical Level:
Beginner - Intermediate

Prerequisites:
None

Resources

📺 Presentation: slides

💻 Code

https://github.com/The-AI-Alliance/gofannon

Speaker: Trevor Grant

Trevor Grant (IBM Research) is getting back into speaking after a hiatus from an otherwise prolific career that was put on pause during the pandemic. During his pause he became a father, published a book (Kubeflow for Machine Learning: From Lab to Production), had a second son, consulted for a while, went back to work for IBM Research, and became car free (this list is not ordered chronologically nor by significance). He has been putzing around generative AI since ~2017, and someday hopes to give a talk on his Star Trek Chat bots of 2018-2020. His primary open source interest at the moment is the qumat project of Apache Mahout and the gofannon project of the AI Alliance.

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Q & A

Please review the session recording