Recurring OSS hacksessions

[mhauru]

Should we keep organising events like the one we had for hacktoberfest?

[llewelld]

Yes please.

[mastoffel]

Definitely!

[mhauru]

We'll run these monthly at least for now, every third Friday of a month, taking turns organising. At least @mhauru, @rwood-97, @mastoffel, @crangelsmith are volunteering to organise.

[mhauru]

Outputs from the first session (hacktoberfest) on 2023-10-20:

• https://github.com/opendp/smartnoise-sdk/pull/578
• https://github.com/ydataai/ydata-synthetic/pull/310
• https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AIrsenal/pull/561
• https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/27158
• https://github.com/tidymodels/recipes/pull/1252
• https://github.com/opendp/smartnoise-sdk/pull/577
• https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2269#issuecomment-1772990257

Also:

• Ryan: "Found a bug in llama-index which I will raise an issue and PR to fix at another point"
• Markus: "Also made some progress towards adding some type hints to the package, but not ready to submit yet."

Might be of interest for @KatrionaGoldmann

[rwood-97]

Ryans llama-index PR is now merged, see here

[mhauru]

Also this: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pull/2552

[mastoffel]

Following discussions with @AoifeHughes and @martintoreilly , find a good place for people in the Turing to discover the regular hacksessions, such as the reading groups wiki, Almanac and/or Handbook.

[mhauru]

The information discovery function is now served by this wiki page: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/research-engineering-group/wiki/Open-source-hacksessions Might link to it from at least the Handbook?

[rwood-97]

Outputs from December hacksession:

• https://github.com/scientific-python/cookie/pull/339 (Markus)
• https://github.com/yongrenjie/sphinx-exec-directive/commit/c0496ee9cf40450d9feadddfdc6bd4135ef71595 (Jon)
• https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/27463 (Rosie)