Gap Open Source Organization

Background

Open Source Frameworks being released at a record pass (Tensorflow, Theano, Caffe, Keras, MXNet, Neon, ...).

- The frameworks with wide adoption are supported and sponsored by the Big 5 (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) and others.

- Mass technical staff, years in development, deep pocket budgets.

On this scale, is it realistic anymore for a grassroots open source project to release a machine learning framework of the same caliber and adoption?

Purpose / Reason

Why us, why this project?

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The open source organization for Epipog is proposed as the following:

Governance Body

The Governance Body would be equalivant to a Board in a Corporate or Non-Profit, with the following role:

1. Formation of the Organization, as a non-profit entity.
2. Set the equivalent of an Articles of Incorporation.
3. Set the Code of Conduct rules.
4. Approve Executive Committee members.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee would be equivalent to Executive Officers in a Corporate or Non-Profit, with the following role:

1. Set the Goals and Direction.
2. Set Release and Content.
3. Onboard Project Managers.
4. Develop Relationships in the Development Community.
5. Develop Corporate Sponsorships.

Andrew Ferlitsch - Executive Director

Project Managers

The Project Managers would be equivalent to Project Managers/Leads in a Corporate or Non-Profit, with the following role:

1. Take Ownership of a section of the code.
2. Recruit contributers.
3. Make contributions.

Chris Heckler - QA Project Manager

David Molina - Linguistics Project Lead

Rene Mesias - Admin Project Manager

Contributers

The Contributers would be equivalent to Technical Staff in a Corporate or Non-Profit, with the following role:

1. Make contributions to the source code under the direction of the Project Manager.

Gap Source Code and Intellectual Property

The source code and intellectual property will be assigned to (owned) by the formed entity.

The entity will make the source code and intellectual property freely available to the public through the Apache Foundation 2.0 License.