scikit-learn 2023 In-person Developer Sprint in Paris, France

OpenTeams July 31, 2023

In June of 2023 (week of June 19 to 23), the scikit-learn team held its first developers sprint since 2019! The sprint took place in Paris, France at the Dataiku office. The sprint event was an in-person event only and had 33 participants.

The following scikit-learn team members joined the sprint:

  1. Gael Varoquaux (@GaelVaroquaux)
  2. Olivier Grisel (@ogrisel)
  3. Guillaume Lemaitre (@glemaitre)
  4. Tim Head (@betatim)
  5. Jérémie du Boisberranger (@jeremiedbb)
  6. Frank Charras (@fcharras)
  7. Maren Westermann
  8. Arturo Amor Quiroz
  9. Adrin Jalali
  10. Loïc Estève
  11. Thomas Fan
  12. Julien Jerphanion (@jjerphan)
  13. François Goupil (@francoisgoupil)
  14. Roman Yurchak
  15. Joris Van den Bossche

The following community members joined the sprint:

  1. Ines (intern at Dataiku)
  2. Chaine San Buenaventura
  3. Yann Lechelle
  4. Vincent Maladière
  5. Franck Charras
  6. Jovan Stojanovic
  7. Leo Dreyfus-Schmidt
  8. Alexandre Landeau
  9. Louis Fouquet
  10. Alexandre Vigny
  11. Harizo Rajaona
  12. Samuel Ronsin
  13. Riccardo Cappuzzo
  14. Camille Troillard
  15. Denis Engemann
  16. Léo Grinsztajn
  17. Lilian Boulard
group of people who participated in the sprint
scikit-learn Developer Sprint, Paris, June 2023; Photo credit: Copyright: Inria / Photo B. Fourrier, June 2023; (from left to right, back to front):
Last Row: Denis Engemann, Riccardo Cappuzzo, François Goupil, Tim Head, Guillaume Lemaitre, Louis Fouquet, Jérémie du Boisberranger, Frank Charras, Léo Grinsztajn, Arturo Amor Quiroz.
Middle Row: Thomas Fan, Lilian Boulard, Gaël Varoquaux, Ines, Jovan Stojanovic, Chaine San Buenaventura.
First Row: Olivier Grisel, Harizo Rajaona, Vincent Maladière.

Sponsors

  • Dataiku provided the space and some of the food, as well as all of the coffee.
  • The scikit-learn consortium organized the sprint, paid for the lunch, the travel and accommodation expenses.

Topics covered at the sprint

  • PR #13649: Monotonic constraints for Tree-based models
  • Discussed the vision/future directions for the project. What is important to keep the project relevant in the future.
  • Should we share some points beyond the vision statement?
  • Thomas F will try and create a vision statement
  • Discussed what people are keeping an eye on with a two year time scale in mind in terms of technology and developments that are relevant.
  • Tim: keep improving our documentation (not just expanding it but also “gardening” to keep it readable)
  • Tim: increase active outreach and communication about new features/improvements and other changes. A lot of cool things in scikit-learn are virtually unknown to the wider public (e.g. Hist grad boosting being on par with lightgbm in terms of performance, …)

What is next?

We are discussing co-locating with OpenML in 2024 in Berlin to organize another developers’ sprint.

group of people who participated in the sprint
scikit-learn Developer Sprint, Paris, June 2023; Photo credit: Copyright Inria / Photo B. Fourrier, June 2023; (from left to right): Thomas Fan, Olivier Grisel
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