Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:00:00 -0500
<p>Now that we’ve covered how open source works, we’re looking to pull back the curtain and see who’s actually contributing. In part 2/2 of our series on open source, we sat down with Reshama Shaikh, a statistician and key organizer of scikit-Learn sprints, to learn about the ups & downs of open source contributing, as well how a Sprint in Nairobi benefits Fortune 500 companies in the US. </p><p>Reshama Shaikh is an independent data scientist/statistician and MBA with skills in Python, R and SAS. I worked for over 10 years as a biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p>Further Reading: </p><p>Stack Overflow Developer Survey; Open Source Contributors: <a href="https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-profile-_-contributing-to-open-source">https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#developer-profile-_-contributing-to-open-source</a></p><p>How to Organize a Scikit Learn Spring by Reshama Shaikh: <a href="https://reshamas.github.io/how-to-organize-a-scikit-learn-sprint/">https://reshamas.github.io/how-to-organize-a-scikit-learn-sprint/</a></p><p>Reshama Shaikh’s Website: <a href="https://reshamas.github.io/">https://reshamas.github.io/</a></p><p>Contributing to scikit-Learn: <a href="https://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/contributing.html">https://scikit-learn.org/stable/developers/contributing.html</a></p><p>Gitter scikit-Learn: <a href="https://gitter.im/scikit-learn/scikit-learn">https://gitter.im/scikit-learn/scikit-learn</a></p><p>scikitLearn Mailing List: <a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn</a></p><p>Join Dataiku’s Paris scikit-Learn sprint this January: <a href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Paris-scikit-learn-Sprint-of-the-Decade">https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Paris-scikit-learn-Sprint-of-the-Decade</a></p>