diff --git a/content/authors/marcel_rd.md b/content/authors/marcel_rd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6a91b237ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/authors/marcel_rd.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas +avatar: marcel.jpg +--- + +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). + +Twitter: [@mribeirodantas](https://twitter.com/mribeirodantas) Website: +[mribeirodantas.me](https://mribeirodantas.me) diff --git a/content/blog/2020-05-08-dvc-ambassador-program-announcement.md b/content/blog/2020-05-08-dvc-ambassador-program-announcement.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c057c3e696 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2020-05-08-dvc-ambassador-program-announcement.md @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ +--- +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 +--- + +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. + +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 :). + +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! + +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: + +- 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. + +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. + +## About Iterative and DVC + +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. + +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! + +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! + +## How to become an ambassador + +If you’re interested in becoming an ambassador, send us an email at +[info@dvc.org](mailto:info@dvc.org) with the subject line “I want to be an +ambassador!” Please tell us: + +- 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 + +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: + +- 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! + +## Some ideas to get started + +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. + +### Blogs and tutorials + +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. + +- [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! + +### Talks + +Community members have presented at events like PyCon, PyData, and local +meetups. + +- [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 + +### Code contributions + +Our GitHub repository has lots of open discussions about potential features- its +a goldmine for ways to pitch in. For example: + +- [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. + +- [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. + +![](/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/)._ + +If any of this sounds fun to you, please be in touch over +[email](mailto:info@dvc.org) (and you can also reach us on +[Twitter](https://twitter.com/dvcorg) and our +[Discord Channel](https://discordapp.com/invite/dvwXA2N)). 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