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The interesting thing about this process is timing. You shouldn't really contribute a code base to a foundation until it's mature enough. I think any group of

by vonnik 9y ago

The interesting thing about this process is timing. You shouldn't really contribute a code base to a foundation until it's mature enough. I think any group of people developing an open-source project wants it to develop quickly and with healthy governance. Joining any foundation, whether it's Apache or Eclipse or Linux, sends a signal that they're mature, thinking about governance and want to make sure the product develops in a way that agrees with the community. But sometimes governance can get in the way of speed. What we found talking to Eclipse was that we could get the governance and keep the speed. Which means we'll be able to keep pushing DL4J forward without confusion. Fwiw, here's the DL4J site: https://deeplearning4j.org/ https://deeplearning4j.org/ Here are the repositories: https://github.com/deeplearning4j https://github.com/deeplearning4j And the Gitter community: https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

mindcrime 9y ago
DL4J strikes me as reasonably mature anyway, although you probably know more about that than I do. :-) Does this mean anything specific for Skymind as the commercial vendor behind DL4J?
- vonnik 9y ago
  That's nice of you. :-) It's mature now, which is why this was the moment to move it into Eclipse. It means that DL4J & suite is now vendor neutral. On the Skymind side, we will continue to develop all those open-source projects, so you can expect a lot more cool stuff to come: interpretable models, better ETL, Keras as our Python API, vertical-specific apps for EDA, Robotics...
  - mindcrime 9y ago
    Very cool. I'm a DL4J fan. I actually did a talk at Tri-JUG a couple of weeks ago, on real-time machine learning and BPM, which featured DL4J as part of the tech stack. I'm also working on a SaaS offering around AI/ML and plan to include support for DL4J at some point. Hopefully at some point I can get to a place where I can make some useful contributions to the project.
    - agibsonccc 9y ago
      Thanks! Please share what you're doing and we'll promote as much as we can.

by vonnik 9y ago

mindcrime 9y ago

DL4J strikes me as reasonably mature anyway, although you probably know more about that than I do. :-) Does this mean anything specific for Skymind as the commercial vendor behind DL4J?

vonnik 9y ago
That's nice of you. :-) It's mature now, which is why this was the moment to move it into Eclipse. It means that DL4J & suite is now vendor neutral. On the Skymind side, we will continue to develop all those open-source projects, so you can expect a lot more cool stuff to come: interpretable models, better ETL, Keras as our Python API, vertical-specific apps for EDA, Robotics...
- mindcrime 9y ago
  Very cool. I'm a DL4J fan. I actually did a talk at Tri-JUG a couple of weeks ago, on real-time machine learning and BPM, which featured DL4J as part of the tech stack. I'm also working on a SaaS offering around AI/ML and plan to include support for DL4J at some point. Hopefully at some point I can get to a place where I can make some useful contributions to the project.
  - agibsonccc 9y ago
    Thanks! Please share what you're doing and we'll promote as much as we can.