[AI Alliance] Making Your First Commit To Open Source: A Casual Conversation

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 LLM app developers, data scientists, data engineers

Technical Level n/a (all levels)

Prerequisites n/a

Industry Cross industry

Agenda

• Welcome & introductions (5')
• Conversation starter (15’)
• Q&A
• Closing

About the instructor 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.

About the AI Alliance The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.