37. Paris WiMLDS scikit-learn sprint

We are excited to announce the first Paris WiMLDS scikit-learn sprint!

Are you curious about contributing to scikit-learn (or another open source project), but unsure how to get started? This sprint is a day dedicated to help you work on one issue (big or small!) of the scikit-learn repository. The morning will be dedicated to an open source contribution initiation workshop with one goal: make your first Pull Request!

Our objective is to increase the participation of women and gender minorities to scikit-learn and other open source projects. The event has a limited number of places and we trust you not to register if you do not identify as belonging to this category, or as a supporting ally.

We will provide a certificate of participation. For PhD students, this should be usable towards validating your mandatory hours of coursework.

When: Saturday, March 12 from 10 am to 6 pm

Where: CybelAngel (45 Rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris, France). 3rd floor. 100% onsite event.

Food and refreshments will be provided.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with Python
• Basic experience with the Python machine learning library scikit-learn
• Willingness to spend some time (about 2 hours) on preparation work ahead of the sprint

Mentors:

• Olivier Grisel
• Bea Hernandez
• Adrin Jalali

Schedule:
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Arrival, introduction of WiMLDS, presentation of the mentors

10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Open source contribution initiation workshop

• Build scikit-learn source code.
• Set up VS code and crawl the code base.
• Learn how to run tests and be able to run one single test.
• Learn how to compile one specific documentation example.
• Learn how github works and make a toy Pull Request.

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch break kindly offered by CybelAngel

1:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Development sprint on big or small issues, depending on your fields of interest, and carefully picked by the mentors.

6:00 pm : End of the sprint followed by a drink at CybelAngel for those who want

The Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS) Meetup aims to inspire, educate, regardless of gender, and support women and gender minorities in the field.

Code of Conduct:
WiMLDS is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down others. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate.
Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for all. All attendees should read the full Code of Conduct before participating: https://github.com/WiMLDS/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-conduct