Scikit-learn Sprint

WiMLDS Meetup Event (March 4, 2017)
Check out the interview:
Interview with Andreas Mueller, Lecturer at Columbia University and Core Contributor to Scikit-Learn, by Reshama Shaikh

Sponsors:

Space Sponsored by Stack Exchange
Refreshments sponsored by Bloomberg

Host:

Andreas Mueller (Twitter: @amuellerml) (Webpage: http://amueller.github.io/)

Teaching Assistants:

Organizer:

Reshama Shaikh

Preparation

1. GitHub Account

Open an account on GitHub
some familiarity with Git / GitHub
review some Git resources prior to event
we'll go over pull requests at beginning of event

2. Join Gitter

Join the [scikit-learn Gitter community]

3. Read thru documentation

scikit-learn Contributing documentation
it is approximately 16 pages

4. Review Open Issues

scikit-learn repository
There are over 750 issues. For the sprint, we will focus on issues with the labels: easy and Need Contributor
go through some 'easy'-label open issues and become familiar with them

Twitter

Please feel free to take photos and tweet about the event.

WiMLDS: @wimlds

Stack Exchange: @StackExchange

Andreas Mueller: @amuellerml

scikit-learn: @scikit_learn

Blog

Blog by Noemi Derzsy: http://wimlds.org/noemi-derzsy-scikit-learn-sprint/