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Dask community manager #131

Open jrbourbeau opened 3 years ago

jrbourbeau commented 3 years ago

At this month's Dask community meeting, @mrocklin brought up the topic of hiring a Dask community manager. This would be a semi-technical role to track the issue tracker, curate other systems like Slack/Discourse, engage with developers, organize blog posts, and more.

Overall there was general interest in such a position existing, though there was some discussion on whether we should hire this position through a company (e.g. Coiled, Anaconda, etc.) or through NumFOCUS. The main takeaway being it's easier from an administrative standpoint to hire through a company, while hiring through NumFOCUS might look better from an OSS community perspective.

The relevant section from the meeting notes are copied below. Opening this issue so we can continue the discussion.

Community meeting notes: Dask community manager (Matt) - Matt would like to hire someone to curate the Dask community. This would be a semi-technical person to track the issue tracker, curate other systems like Slack/Discourse, find developers who would be good to invite, organize blogposts, and so on - We can either hire this person at Coiled, or through Dask/NumFOCUS. - Tom: Scikit-Learn tried this in the last six months or so. Probably through Inria (https://scikit-learn.fondation-inria.fr/people/) - Ben: PyPI might also have something similar. Big +1 - Mike: +1 - Ian: Jupyter has tried to hire project managers. Not exactly the same. It’s hard to find someone with the right skillset. - Eric: Try pinging Scopatz. He did something similar at Quansight - NumFOCUS vs Corporate infrastructure - Julia: management burden doesn’t need to rely on Matt in particular. - Matt: there is administrative burden
jsignell commented 3 years ago

I just want to say that I think this is a really really good idea and -- for me -- the benefits of having such an explicit role outweigh any qualms about how they are hired. If it's easier to administer through Coiled, I think you should go for it :)

GenevieveBuckley commented 3 years ago

Georgiana Dolocan and Chris Holdgraf just published an article about Jupyter's contributor in residence pilot program. Some of their lessons learned might be informative for this discussion too.

https://blog.jupyter.org/lessons-learned-from-jupyters-contributor-in-residence-pilot-427e2b361a7b

jakirkham commented 3 years ago

Was just looking at that 😄

GenevieveBuckley commented 3 years ago

Was just looking at that :smile:

I know, that's why I saw it!