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Contributing to Open Source Software (OSS)

Who Am I?

  • Software Engineer at Quansight (developing PyTorch)
  • Contributed to PyTorch, MXNet, Chainer, etc.
  • Previously Machine Learning Engineer (in NLP and CV)
  • Not from CS background (only language university taught us was C 😔 )
  • Learnt Python by wandering in the wild!

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What is OSS?

Brief History

  • Richard Stallman (pioneer)
  • Sharing your recipe
  • Imagine world without OSS 😨

Does anyone even use it?

  • Recent Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
  • If you use Python
  • If you are using any cloud service
  • If you use Android
  • If you use ….

Why should I spend my time?

  • People will use your code! 😁
  • Learning 📜
  • Ability to work in a team and interact! 🤝
  • Meet new people! 👩‍💻
  • Get introduced to new tools and technologies (debuggers, linters)🔧
  • Might land a new job 💻

Hopefully you are interested by now 🤓

Start Slow

My experience

First Pytorch PR terrible 🤢

Took 9 months to get accepted! Lots of rookie mistakes!

Start Date

End Date 🎉

Experience

  • Patience
  • Lot of learning
  • Got to interact with really smart people

Tips

Choosing the project to work on

  • Personal Project that you really love
  • Some library that you use a lot (eg. NumPy, pandas)
  • Be sure to choose an active project
  • Project with developer guide and good documentation

Things to remember

  • Ask for help! Nobody expects you to know everything
  • Be polite, humble and patient
  • There is no stupid question!

Thank You!

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