True, there's been discussions, but from what I've seen it's mostly flag planting or vague pop-eng fodder that project directors dish out to tech journalists.

True, there's been discussions, but from what I've seen it's mostly flag planting or vague pop-eng fodder that project directors dish out to tech journalists. Having Keras make a statement on this carries far more weight, because fchollet is not selling a product, or pushing an agenda, or creating a walled garden of some sort. The only thing that's a bit off about Keras is that it's mostly the efforts of one guy. Sure, there's many other contributors, but they don't seem to be acknowledged. I've never seen anyone else speak for the project. I'd really like to see a neutral party emerge for deep learning practice and tooling, before the whole industry gets sucked into a single dominant ecosystem like AWS.