DagsHub x Hacktoberfest 2022
- Nir Barazida
- 3 min read
- 3 years ago
MLOps Team Lead @ DagsHub
DagsHub simplifies the process of building better models and managing unstructured data projects by consolidating data, code, experiments, and models in one place.
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It’s that time of year again! Hacktoberfest is here, and DagsHub has some surprising challenges for the ML community!
Quick Start to Contribution
- Sign-up to Hacktoberfest & DagsHub.
- Join our Hacktoberfest Discord channel.
- Contribute to one of the following (or all 😉):
- Challenge 1: Papers With Everything
- Challenge 2: 3D Model Datasets
- Challenge 3: Audio Datasets
Powered by DigitalOcean, Hacktoberfest is a month-long virtual festival of open source. Participants from all over the world and of all skill levels give back to the community by donating to open-source projects. It was first launched in 2013 with ~700 participants and last year’s challenge had more than 141,000 participants!
Using a range of coding languages, thousands of Hacktoberfest participants submitted 294,451 accepted pull/merge requests!
DagsHub x Hacktoberfest
Last year we took part in Hacktoberfest for the first time and created a challenge focused on data contribution for audio datasets. For that, we improved DagsHub's audio data catalog capabilities – enabling you to listen to samples hosted on DagsHub without having to download anything locally. For each sample, you get additional information like waveforms, spectrograms, and file metadata.
It was a massive success with over 40 new datasets contributed. Users created datasets from seven different languages, various domains, and sources - you can read all about it in our post-Hacktoberfest ‘21 blog.
The Data Science and Machine Learning Hacktoberfest
Last year we notice that Hacktoberfest had very few contribution options for ML projects. This is why we decided to create a Grand Festival of Open Source Data Science and open two new challenges (more to come 🤐 ) for Hacktoberfest and also resurrect last year’s challenge.
Challenge 1: Papers With Everything
In this challenge, participants will connect repos from GitHub to DagsHub that host reproduced papers from NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, and ECCV, and add their datasets and model's weights to make them fully accessible for ANYONE who'd like to use them!
Challenge 2: 3D Model Datasets
After last year's success in contributing OS Audio datasets, this year, we'd like to focus our contribution on the 3D Models domain. For that, we added 3D data catalog capabilities to DagsHub! You can now upload 3D Models or motion clips to DagsHub and see, move and diff it!
Challenge 3: Audio Datasets
Contribute Open Source Audio Datasets and help audio practitioners leverage our data catalog capabilities for audio datasets.
Hacktoberfest FAQ
How can you participate?
Sign up for Hacktoberfest between October 1st and October 31st using your GitHub or GitLab account. To make valid contributions, you need to submit pull requests for repositories that have a hacktoberfest label. Once the project's maintainer accepts the pull request, it will count toward your participation in Hacktoberfest.
Does DagsHub provide any special swag?
DagsHub will send swag to all participants who contribute at least 2 pull requests during Hacktoberfest. If you make more than 10 pull requests, we'll send a full swag package your way!
How can I contact the DagsHub team for support?
The DagsHub team (& community) is available 24/7 on the DagsHub Discord channel. We ask that questions regarding Hacktoberfest will be asked on the Hacktoberfest Discord channel.
Do I need to sign-up for Hacktoberfest?
You don't need to be a registered Hacktoberfest user to contribute to our challenges. However, we highly recommend doing it to get a chance to win the challenge and get to know other cool open-source projects.
I signed up for Hacktoberfest in mid-October. Will pull requests that I created earlier in October count?
Yes, all pull requests created between October 1st and October 31st will count, regardless of when you register for Hacktoberfest. Pull requests created before October 1st but merged or marked as ready for review after do not count. Pull requests still in review after October 31st and meeting the criteria will count towards your completion goal.
The DagsHub team is looking forward to your contributions. Good luck and let us know if we can help!
