- Welcome to the Synthetic Data Vault! Here, you will find a group
- of passionate creators and builders who want to put synthetic data
- to use.
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- Our goal with the SDV is to be the most comprehensive and trusted
- platform for synthetic data. Since we started the{" "}
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- SDV Slack Community
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- in July 2020, we've seen unprecedented innovation and
- collaboration in this space. As we continue to improve the
- software and discover new insights about synthetic data, we want
- to make sure our community is set up for responsible growth.
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- To that end, we are introducing some SDV Slack Community
- Guidelines, aimed to foster more of the great engagement we've
- been seeing. Below, you'll find 5 key principles that we expect
- all Slack Community members to follow.
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- 1. Discuss and participate openly
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- We created our Slack Community as an open place to discuss the
- SDV. Anyone can join our community by creating a profile.
- Whether it's through asking questions, having detailed
- discussions or reacting to existing conversations, you are
- welcome to engage with the community in any way you feel
- comfortable. Feel free to answer questions by replying in a
- thread, especially if you've run into the same problems in the
- past or have workarounds.
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The guidance below allows us to keep the community safe:
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- We encourage SDV Slack members to create profiles that
- accurately represent who they are, including their name,
- profile image and email. Please do not deliberately change
- your identity in order to mislead the community, for example
- by providing a temporary email or a fake name or profile
- photo. Impersonating others could also result in your
- expulsion.
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- We encourage everyone to communicate in public channels
- instead of through private Direct Messages (DMs). When you
- keep discussions in the public space, everyone in the
- community can benefit from the solutions that you find, and
- others can also join in. This also applies to communicating
- with SDV team members — we try to respond to questions on a
- first-come, first-serve basis, and generally get to everything
- within a few business days.{" "}
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- You will not receive a faster response by directly
- messaging individual members of the SDV team.
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- 2. Keep the workspace organized
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- Before starting a discussion, check to see if there is already
- material that covers the topic. We have many resources
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- GitHub Issues
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- SDV User Guides
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- DataCebo Blog
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- If you cannot find any related material, post your question in
- the appropriate channel depending on the use – for eg.
- #single-table, #multi-table, #timeseries, #sdmetrics, etc. For
- general questions, use #sdv-dev. We recommend you use only 1
- block of text to write your initial question. The text will
- become the start of a new thread, and new replies will appear
- nested underneath it:
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- (We recognize that there may be bots or Apps that you use in
- other Slack spaces. Currently, we are not accepting any requests
- to add external Slack Apps to the SDV space.)
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- 3. Continue with involved discussions on GitHub
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- While Slack is a great place for initial connection and
- conversation, we are using GitHub for more involved topics,
- which require a more permanent location for tracking and
- updating. In certain scenarios, a member of the SDV team may ask
- you to continue a Slack discussion on GitHub instead:
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- Debugging problems
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- is easier on GitHub if there are many code samples or stack
- traces being shared. If the bug cannot easily be reproduced or
- fixed, we'll track its updates using GitHub too.
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- We also use GitHub to keep track of{" "}
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- new feature requests
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- . We prioritize new features based on the demand and the
- utility for synthetic data use cases. If you'd like to call
- attention to a particular feature request, we encourage you to
- add more information about how you're planning to use the
- synthetic data, and why the feature would be helpful.
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- 4. Keep the focus on SDV usage
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- The primary focus of the SDV Slack is to discuss the{" "}
- SDV software. Due to recent
- growth in users and usage questions, and our goal of supporting
- users in every way possible, we are adopting a new policy: Slack
- members must stick to posting{" "}
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- SDV usage questions and discussions only
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- . Here's what this means:
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- While we recognize that there are a lot of discussions, news
- and articles about synthetic data and generative AI in general
- happening right now, please refrain from posting them to any
- of the SDV channels (including the "random" channel). These
- include any{" "}
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- general industry news about synthetic data; third party
- vendor evaluations, or successful case studies. This rule
- applies to the SDV itself: we will not post (or allow others
- to post) coverage of the SDV
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- in business news
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- , articles about industry usage of the SDV, successful case
- studies of the SDV, or{" "}
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- evaluations by other vendors or third parties
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- We believe this content is more suitable for LinkedIn and
- other venues
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- Please refrain from advertising or soliciting anywhere in the
- SDV Slack, as this creates a bad experience for the community.
- Promotion of a specific business or research project may
- result in your expulsion from the Slack space. If you are
- receiving solicitations or spam from someone, please get in
- touch with the SDV team at info@sdv.dev for a resolution.
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- 5. Be respectful
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- We are thrilled to have a global community that represents many
- different industries, backgrounds and experiences. It is
- important for everyone to keep this diversity in mind while
- communicating. A question that might seem obvious to you may not
- be to someone else, and you may receive faster replies if you
- explain any industry-specific terms. While others may not share
- your understanding of physics, chemistry, finance, healthcare,
- etc., we all share a love for data!
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- We ask that you also extend this respect to the SDV team. As the
- core maintainers of this project, we are a passionate but small
- team responding to a variety of requests and questions. Please
- be mindful of this as you communicate with and wait for
- responses from us.
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- Thank you for taking the time to read our community guidelines.
- With these in mind, we hope the SDV Slack will continue to grow as
- an open space for discussion and collaboration around synthetic
- data solutions.
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