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name: Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas | ||
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Early Stage Researcher at [Institut Curie](https://intstitut-curie.org) with | ||
over 10 years of experience in the field of biomedical engineering and health | ||
informatics. Areas of interest include Causal Inference, Artificial | ||
Intelligence, and Data Science. Degrees in Computer and Automation Engineering | ||
(Eng), Big Data (Grad degree), and Bioinformatics (MSc). Currently enrolled in a | ||
Ph.D. at EDITE (Sorbonne Université). | ||
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Twitter: [@mribeirodantas](https://twitter.com/mribeirodantas) Website: | ||
[mribeirodantas.me](https://mribeirodantas.me) |
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title: 'Join the DVC Ambassador Program!' | ||
date: 2020-05-08 | ||
description: | | ||
We're launching our ambassador program for people all around the world to get involved in | ||
the DVC community. | ||
descriptionLong: | | ||
We're launching our ambassador program for people all around the world to get involved in | ||
the DVC community. Our first ambassador, Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, shares a guest blog about | ||
how ambassadors support open source projects through blog writing, public outreach, and code. | ||
picture: 2020-05-08/Ambassador_Header.png | ||
author: marcel_rd | ||
commentsUrl: https://discuss.dvc.org/t/join-the-dvc-ambassador-program/383 | ||
tags: | ||
- Ambassador | ||
- Volunteer | ||
- Meetup | ||
- Blogging | ||
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DVC's software can be everywhere, but its developers can’t - that’s why | ||
ambassadors, folks who do outreach and community building around projects they | ||
love, are a key part of the open source community. DVC is starting an ambassador | ||
program to help people who are passionate about our mission get involved. | ||
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As the first DVC ambassador, and a | ||
[Fedora ambassador](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mribeirodantas) before | ||
that, I can tell you a bit about the role. As a representative of open source | ||
projects, I've participated in lots of events, made friends, and traveled. Every | ||
single time I’ve contributed, I got this nice feeling that it was all worth it. | ||
I believe that if you agree with the core values of the project, a great | ||
relationship lies ahead :). | ||
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So what are the core values of DVC, exactly? DVC is founded on the principle of | ||
engineering solutions for making data science and machine learning rigorous and | ||
reproducible. If this matters to you, too, you might be a good fit for our | ||
ambassador program! | ||
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As an ambassador, you’ll act as a bridge between DVC in your community. There | ||
are lots of ways to do this, big and small. For example: | ||
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- Write a blog post talking about how you use DVC in your projects | ||
- What about creating a network of DVC users and data scientists in your town? | ||
Even though we’re self-isolating now, you can still organize online meetups. | ||
[We already did one!](https://tulu.la/events/dvc-virtual-meetup-2020-00032c) | ||
We help cover costs to organize meetups. | ||
- Do you want to talk about DVC at your office, or at a conference? We help | ||
speakers develop talks, and we have some discretionary funds for travel on a | ||
case-by-case basis. | ||
- Want to develop a feature for DVC? We welcome contributions to the code base, | ||
even if it’s your first pull request ever. | ||
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Being an ambassador means getting closer to the team in charge of DVC, but at | ||
the same time, it means going farther to reach people outside the organization- | ||
including people who don’t know about DVC yet, people who need some help getting | ||
started, and people who are already excited about our mission and want to find | ||
meaningful ways to pitch in. | ||
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## About Iterative and DVC | ||
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DVC got started in 2017 as a personal project by Dmitry Petrov ( | ||
[we just celebrated our 3rd birthday](https://dvc.org/blog/dvc-3-years-and-1-0-release)). | ||
Previously, Dmitry worked at Microsoft as a data scientist and did a PhD in | ||
Computer Science. In 2018, Dmitry teamed up with his co-founder Ivan Shcheklein | ||
(co-founder of [The Tweeted Times](https://tweetedtimes.com/) and | ||
[Sedna](https://www.sedna.org/) contributor) to incorporate Iterative.ai and | ||
grow the project. Iterative.ai is building enterprise tools for collaboration on | ||
ML projects. Currently, Iterative.ai's open source flagship project is Data | ||
Version Control (DVC), an open source version control system for managing | ||
complex workflows, datasets, and models. | ||
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Development is ongoing in the core DVC project as well as new ventures into | ||
[MLOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD)](https://dvc.org/blog/reimagining-devops-video) | ||
for data science. The team is small-and-mighty, with developers, engineers, and | ||
data scientists on four continents. The open source community is a huge part of | ||
all Iterative.ai projects; currently, DVC has more than | ||
[5,000 stars on GitHub](https://github.com/iterative/dvc) and more than 100 | ||
individual contributors! | ||
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One of DVC’s main principles is adapting existing software engineering practices | ||
to machine learning. For example, DVC is built around Git version control: in an | ||
ML project using DVC, each experiment corresponds to a Git commit. When you | ||
check out any commit, you’ll see the source code as it was when you made the | ||
commit- as expected. But, you’ll also see your datasets as they were and the | ||
exact pipeline of commands you ran in that experiment! | ||
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## How to become an ambassador | ||
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If you’re interested in becoming an ambassador, send us an email at | ||
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with the subject line “I want to be an | ||
ambassador!” Please tell us: | ||
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- A little about yourself and your professional background | ||
- Any outreach work you’ve done before | ||
- What kind of ambassador activities you’d be most interested in participating | ||
in | ||
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The program is structured to provide a lot of flexibility, so each ambassador | ||
can do outreach in ways that are personally motivating and enjoyable. There are | ||
a few guidelines: | ||
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- We ask for at least one-year commitment | ||
- We ask ambassadors to contribute at least four activities per year, about once | ||
every three months. There's no upper limit to how much you can do! | ||
- For your first contribution, we ask for a blog post- this way, we can | ||
collaborate with you to help get all the technical details right. After that, | ||
it’s up to you! | ||
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## Some ideas to get started | ||
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Our official ambassador program is just starting, but our community already has | ||
a lot of folks making noise. Here are just a few contributions we admire- we | ||
think they’re pretty cool inspirations for future projects. | ||
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### Blogs and tutorials | ||
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Shareable blogs are one of our most effective outreach strategies. They give | ||
visibility to the author _and_ new ways to use DVC, so it's a win-win. | ||
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- [Remote training with GitLab-CI and DVC](https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2020/01/remote-training-gitlab-ci-dvc/), | ||
by Mercel Mikl and Bert Besser (Bert has also organized a DVC meetup in | ||
Berlin) | ||
- [Creating a solid Data Science development environment](https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-a-solid-data-science-development-environment-60df14ce3a34), | ||
by Gabriel dos Santos Goncalves | ||
- [Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning](https://martinfowler.com/articles/cd4ml.html), | ||
by Danilo Sato, Arif Wider, and Christoph Windheuser | ||
- [Manage your Data Science Project in R](https://mribeirodantas.xyz/blog/index.php/2020/03/05/r-dvc-and-rmarkdown/) | ||
was my first blog post about using DVC in an R project! | ||
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### Talks | ||
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Community members have presented at events like PyCon, PyData, and local | ||
meetups. | ||
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- [Version control for data science](https://www.slideshare.net/AlessiaMarcolini/version-control-for-data-science), | ||
by Alessia Marcolini @ PyCon DE & PyData Berlin | ||
- [How to easily set up and version control your machine learning pipelines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTlqpcmiQw), | ||
by Sarah Diot-Girard & Stephanie Bracaloni @ PyData Amsterdam | ||
- [ML models and dataset versioning](https://speakerdeck.com/kurianbenoy/ml-models-and-dataset-versioning), | ||
by Kurian Benoy @ PyCon India | ||
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### Code contributions | ||
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Our GitHub repository has lots of open discussions about potential features- its | ||
a goldmine for ways to pitch in. For example: | ||
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- [Helge Munk Jacobsen](https://github.com/elgehelge) took on an open issue in | ||
our code base about supporting hyperparameter tracking with DVC and made a | ||
pull request to add this feature. | ||
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- [Vera Sativa](https://github.com/verasativa/) added directory support to the | ||
`dvc import-url` function- and she was our 100th contributor, so she won her | ||
own DeeVee the owl. | ||
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![](/uploads/images/2020-01-17/odd_with_deevee.png 'Vera and team =500')_Vera | ||
(center, flashing a peace sign) thanked us with this lovely picture of DeeVee | ||
and her team, [Odd Industries](https://odd.co/en/)._ | ||
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If any of this sounds fun to you, please be in touch over | ||
[email](mailto:[email protected]) (and you can also reach us on | ||
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/dvcorg) and our | ||
[Discord Channel](https://discordapp.com/invite/dvwXA2N)). We look forward to | ||
connecting with you! |
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<Link | ||
className={sharedStyles.button} | ||
style={theme} | ||
href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=I want to become an Ambassador!" | ||
target="_blank" | ||
href="/blog/dvc-ambassador-program-announcement" | ||
onClick={logAmbassador} | ||
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Let’s talk! | ||
Learn more! | ||
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