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The easiest way to use Machine Learning. Mix and match underlying ML libraries and data set sources. Generate new datasets or modify existing ones with ease.
https://intel.github.io/dffml/main/
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docs: blog: logo: Write up on past present and future #1304

Open johnandersen777 opened 2 years ago

johnandersen777 commented 2 years ago

Need to add the following as a page on the docs site:

DFFML has a logo! https://github.com/intel/dffml

dffml-logo

Saahil Ali reached out to Jason Long, who designed Git's logo, and asked him if he would design us a logo, and well, he did it!

For some reason the project getting a logo feels like some kind of milestone in it’s journey. I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the project’s history, and update everyone on what we hope is its future.

The project started on December 26th of 2017 when Diego Heath outlined the original architecture. Building on John L. Whiteman’s work and integrating with Rodrigo Pulido's web app, we set out on a mission to make a robot (George as Tiberius Hefflin named him) do our most dreaded of tasks, looking at open source projects! We finalized integration with the Allowlist Tool somewhere around June of 2018, and the project open sourced on March 7th of 2019. We then presented the work at BSides PDX in October of 2019, along with revamped data flow architecture which was inspired by the name Jessica Marz gave us, and with advice from Arjan van de Ven. Just wanted to share with everyone all since many of you were a huge part of making the project happen. We couldn’t have done it without everyone’s feedback and guidance thought the years.

Things have gone great the past few years being in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Big thanks to Terri Oda who leads the Python Software Foundation (PSF) GSoC org and helped us navigate that process and hosting us as a sub-org. We’ve mentored 8 students, with several of those students having been mentors themselves after their time as students. Most of the students have gone on to have full time jobs, we’re lucky that they still make time to be a part of the community and mentor others. The project has been a space for students to learn about software development and machine learning. The project has also been a place for me to learn about running an open source project, CI/CD, documentation, and most importantly building a community. I’m grateful to all who have been involved as I know my learning curve was at times rocky.

The students who’d mentored during GSoC the past few years are likely / hopefully soon going to take over maintenance of the project going forward soon. Terri and I meet with them and they have been working on their governance documentation for their org: https://github.com/builtree. Under their leadership, the project will hopefully reach it’s beta milestone within the next two years. I’m excited to see what the future holds. I know they will continue the spirt of the community and build amazing things.

Thanks again for all the advice along the way. And a big thanks to our GSoC students who have made the project what it is today!

Onkar627 commented 2 years ago

Where can we add this in docs?

johnandersen777 commented 2 years ago

I will take care of this one