Stammtisch 2016 12 12

Video call Heiko & Viktor, summarising discussions at NIPS 2016 with Gunnar and Sergey.

#Funding

• Send Gunnar list of foundation options for him to discuss with funding person
• Write to NumFocus, attempting to join as affiliated (not fully integrated) project to get funding
• Write to FSC, attempting to join

#Installation

• Gunnar aims to hire a Software guy to help on Shoguns portability / installation. What can we do to help?

#Hackathon

• We agree on date: http://doodle.com/poll/u7r5s4ufd3d5ibwgkk3t9i9u/admin#table
• Gunnar hosts at ETHZ
• Gunnar can help with flight tickets
• We airbnb

#Next steps in framework:

• Merge tags branch (remove member variables, fix build, one class at a time)
• Draft plugin/base framework for a single simple example
• Merge linalg

Roadmap:

• Collect ideas of major ideas for Shogun that could help to get funding.
• One idea: Reference implementation for https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/

#Release:

• Air for release around Xmas, merge omp branch, try to fix random forest parallelisation
• There is a milestone for 5.1 as well