How to contribute?

Hey welcome on this page! You have already made a tangible step towards becoming a contributor :-)

We would be very happy to welcome you as a member of the Labelia community and to receive your contributions to this collaborative effort. We favour particularly contributions to the following:

  • Trustworthy AI: To understand the participative approach on the topic of "responsible and trustworthy data science" that we initiated in the summer of 2019 and have been facilitating ever since, you can read this blog post: Growing applications of AI techniques vs. growing concerns: how to ease the tension?

    • Animation: Meetup, Slack

    • Lead: Eric Boniface and Clément Mayer

  • Contributivity simulations repository: this is an ongoing and open effort to explore different approaches for measuring the contributivity of differents datasets to the performance of a model trained in a distributed way on these datasets

  • Thematic workgroup 'Communication’: all activities related to communication, dissemination, animation of the community. This includes for example: original contents (blog posts, use cases descriptions), participation to and organisation of events, social medias.

    • Animation: monthly TC open to contributors, dedicated Slack channel

    • Lead: Talia Lliteras and Clément Mayer

  • Thematic workgroup ‘Sustainability’: all activities related to the sustainability of Labelia. This includes for example: research on revenue models, answer to call for projects, study of new partnerships.

    • Animation: monthly TC open to contributors, dedicated Slack channel

    • Lead: Eric Boniface

  • Thematic workgroup “Research”: all activities related to research and studes on topics related to the challenges addressed by Labelia.

    • Current topics of interest:

      • Contributivy: repo Github, slack

      • Risk of malevolent ML algorithms

      • Some additional topics might be covered in the future!

    • Animation: monthly TC open to contributors, dedicated Slack channel

    • Lead: Romain Bey and Romain Goussault

  • Substra Framework code repositories: all activities related to the source code, the security, the technical documentation, the roadmap of Substra framework. This is further described in the CONTRIBUTING.md.

 
 
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Who is a contributor?

We have summarized on the diagram below the simple idea that ‘contributors’ contribute actively, whereas ‘enthusiasts’ follow the project and ‘members’ are involved in the administrative governance of the non-profit.