October 28–31, 2019

Santa Clara, CA Oct 2020

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TensorFlow Contributor Summit

9:00am - 5:00pm
Monday, October 28—Tuesday, October 29

Location: Magnolia

Who is this presentation for?

TensorFlow SIG members, TensorFlow code contributors, documentation contributors, aspiring contributors, and community leaders

If you have any questions about the Contributor Summit or would like to find out how to join us, please reach out to us via tfcs2019@tensorflow.org.

Description

If you already contribute to TensorFlow, or would like to, please join us for the TensorFlow Contributor Summit, happening at the inaugural TensorFlow World. We’ll be in Santa Clara, California, on October 28-29. Whether you work with code, docs, or the community, we’d love to have you there!

The Contributor Summit offers a welcoming environment for new community members to learn, explore, and network with other contributors and Special Interest Groups.

On Monday, we'll meet to share essential content on the direction of TensorFlow, including:

Opening comments from project tech lead
Lightning updates from each TensorFlow SIG
Technical talks covering topics, such as:
- Building and testing TensorFlow projects
- The future of modular TensorFlow
- TensorFlow 2.0 and beyond

On Tuesday, you'll have the opportunity to meet with the SIGs leads and members. The goal is to engage contributors, solve problems face-to-face, and share our experiences.

Our goals are:

Provide a platform to share experiences and to identify common issues and goals
Onboard new contributors into our community
Connect with SIG leaders and the maintainers of TensorFlow
Meet with new and existing contributors to get answers about challenges and insight into future developments

In addition, if you're a SIG Lead, we'll host the first face-to-face SIG Leadership Meeting with the goal of increasing collaboration, sharing knowledge and best practices, and designing a future road map on how to increase collaboration within the SIGs.

Diversity and inclusion

We strive to foster an open and welcoming environment, and it's imperative that everyone in the community who wants to participate in this event feels welcome to do so, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. As with all TensorFlow forums, we abide by the TensorFlow Code of Conduct.

Join us at the Contributor Summit and learn more about our vibrant and fast-growing community.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the Contributor Summit or would like to find out how to join us, please reach out to us via tfcs2019@tensorflow.org.

Monday, October 28, 2019

8:00am

8:00am–9:00am Monday, October 28, 2019

Morning Coffee (1h)

9:00am

Coffee & light breakfast (30m)

9:30am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:30am–9:35am Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Edd Wilder-James (Google)

Edd Wilder-James welcomes you to the TensorFlow World 2019 Contributor Summit. Read more.

9:35am

TensorFlow: To 2.0 and beyond

9:35am–10:00am Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Martin Wicke (Google)

Martin Wicke delivers the opening session, reflecting on TensorFlow's journey to 2.0 and where the project is headed next. Read more.

10:00am

Why is machine learning seeing exponential growth in its communities?

10:00am–10:30am Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Omoju Miller (GitHub)

Omoju Miller provides a data-driven historical trace of the rise of applied machine learning (ML) and dives into the product features being built at GitHub to make the lives of maintainers and ML professionals better. Read more.

10:30am

10:30am–11:00am Monday, October 28, 2019

Morning Break (30m)

11:00am

11:00am–11:30am Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

TBC

11:30am

Meet the SIGs: Lightning Talks

11:30am–12:30pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

The TensorFlow (TF) Special Interest Groups (SIGs) give voice to TensorFlow stakeholders, and each group is unique in mission and scope. Learn from the SIG leads about their groups' visions, project road maps, and how you can join a group with work that interests you. Read more.

12:30pm

12:30pm–1:30pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Lunch (1h)

1:30pm

Getting involved in the TensorFlow community

1:30pm–2:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Edd Wilder-James (Google), Joana Filipa Bernardo Carrasqueira (Google)

Learn how you can be a part of the growing TensorFlow (TF) ecosystem and become a contributor through code, documentation, education, or community leadership. Edd Wilder-James and Joana Filipa Bernardo Carrasqueira give you an overview of GitHub practices, request for comment (RFC) processes, and how to join the TF Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and make an impact in the community. Read more.

2:00pm

How to create a perfect Pull Request and what to expect when you submit it

2:00pm–2:30pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Chandni Shah (Google)

Do you know what happens when you submit a PR? Do you want to create PRs that sail through smoothly and get merged quickly? Novice or Seasoned contributor, come learn all about the Pull Requests: PR life cycle, behind the scenes, common mistakes, best practices and more, during this mini dynamite session catered to you contributors, to write better Pull request. Read more.

2:30pm

Building TensorFlow: Libraries and custom op

2:30pm–3:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Jason Zaman (Light Labs), Yifei Feng (Google)

TensorFlow is a huge project with many parts both integrated and increasingly separate. Building all these components so they work together requires care. Jason Zaman and Yifei Feng demystify the main components and dependencies within TensorFlow and explore how to add custom functionality easily using custom op. Read more.

3:00pm

3:00pm–3:30pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Afternoon Break (30m)

3:30pm

Modular TensorFlow

3:30pm–4:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

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Gunhan Gulsoy (Google Brain)

TensorFlow has become very successful, leading to a rich community growing around TensorFlow. However, as the community grew, the experience of collaboration became more and more difficult. Gunhan Gulsoy provides an overview of Google's efforts to create a framework that empowers the TensorFlow community to build and distribute on top of TensorFlow. Read more.

4:00pm

Town Hall: Contributors’ perspectives

4:00pm–5:00pm Monday, October 28, 2019

Contributor Summit

Moderated by:

Edd Wilder-James (Google)

Panelists:

Sean Morgan (Two Six Labs), Jason Zaman (Light Labs), Karmel Allison (Google), Martin Wicke (Google), Margaret Maynard-Reid (Tiny Peppers)

Join in to hear about the rapid growth of open source ML communities and a future road map for community building. Learn best practices, use cases, and how to develop metrics for your project by learning from other contributors to TensorFlow. Read more.