This week, we watched the presentation of the last 3 groups, and my journey of this course is about to come to an end 😭 (but my journey of open-source is not!) Click to see my final thoughts!

This week, I watched the presentations from 6 different groups in class. Also, I continued my contributions to Huggingface and personal contribution projects. Click to see the details!

This week, our team and the Preswald team have presented our group projects in class. Click to see the details!

This week, I watched an interesting video called Open Source in Film. Meanwhile, our team finally completed a feature request on Huggingface, on which we’ve been working for a long time. Click to see the details.

This week, we discussed the paper by Eric S Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar and watched the talk by Claude Warren The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Coffeehosue. Also, I did some research on the Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) at Meta and NVIDIA. Click below to see my thoughts!

After the Spring Break, my team and I continued working on contributions to the Huggingface Open Source Projects. Also, our TA Shivam Balikondwar made a presentation on his journey as an open-source contributor. Click to see more!

This week, Nick Vidal from OSI was invited to give a guest lecture on Open Source AI in our class. Click to see my thoughts on this talk!

This week, our final projecr team was created! We decided to work on the open source projects by Huggingface, and we’ve been reading the relevant materials and making our first contributions. Click to see more details!

As I learned more about Open Source by taking this course, I’ve made some contributions to existing open source projects. Here are the details of my contributions and my thoughts! ↓

This week, we evaluated several open-source projects to decide if they are suitable for college students to contribute. Our group examined PyTorch. Click to see more details! ↓

This week, we practiced the basic commands in git in class, and presented the extensions we made for Mozilla Firefox. Click ‘READ MORE’ to see my thoughts!

This week, my teammates (Haocheng Lu and Alvaro Martinez) and I developed Quick Notes, a efficient note-taking extension for Mozilla Firefox. Click ‘READ MORE’ to see more details!

Part 1 Go Project

Visit the code of conduct document for the Go project. Read the document carefully. In your own words explain the benefits of having such a document for a project. Do you think other projects would benefit from having such a document?

open source

what do YOU think about when you hear the term “open source”? what are some advantages of open vs. closed source, what are some potential problems with open source, why did you decide to register for a class about open source software development?