Below is a list of all of our community teams, as well as all of the information you need to join. (For information on our development teams, click here.) Any time you see an "@", that's a member's Slack handle! Click here to join our Slack organisation!
- Projects
- Design Team
- Learning Team
- Events Team
- Mentorship Team
- Operations Team
- Partnerships Team
- Social Media Team
- Writing Team
OpenMined's community teams work together on many different projects. Here is a diagram to show you who works on what:
Creating Beautiful Communications in Line with the OpenMined Brand
Highly skilled graphic designers, web designers, illustrators, animators, photographers, and other creatives, with a passion for maintaining the integrity of the OpenMined brand and creating cool stuff to help promote our community.
Team Lead: Bennett Farkas
Team Members
Requirements to Join:
- You possess a skill set that would add to our team's capacity or capabilities
- You have a high-quality portfolio that passes the team lead's screening
- You are proficient with core design software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Sketch)
- You are good at satisfying design requirements and facilitating and changes in a timely manner
- You are a strong team player that doesn’t take anything too seriously, or too personally :-)
- You have a strong desire to maintain and expand OpenMined's brand
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join
Organized learning of the OM code base and Secure & Private AI
Assists prospective contributors interested in learning Secure & Private AI concepts by organizing cohorts, study groups, code challenges, mini-hackathons, and other learning groups that help them understand PySyft and contribute to OM.
Team Lead: Yemissi B. Kifouly
Team Members
Requirements to Join:
- tbd
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join
Hosting OpenMined Events
Plans Meetups, Webinars, and other events so that like-minded OpenMineders can meet to discuss and hear talks on releveant issues to OM.
Team Lead: Helena Barmer
Team Members
Requirements to Join:
- tbd
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join
Guidance for new members of the OM community
Provides new members of the OM community with resources to learn and contribute to the code base and the community itself.
Team Lead: Sourav Das
Team Members
Requirements to Join as a Community Mentor:
- Be personable and kind!
- There are no technical requirements, but the mentor must be committed to making sure their mentees find accurate answers to their questions (whether from a Technical Mentor, dev team member/lead, etc.), and when asked a question they don’t know the answer to, finding someone to answer it rather than making up a partially-incorrect answer or guessing.
- Have read through the Mentorship Pipeline and Welcome Package, and watched the Mentor Onboarding Video thoroughly.
- Will commit to joining the team’s weekly sync meeting (Saturdays, 4-4:30PM GMT+1)
Requirements to Join as a Technical Mentor:
- All of the Community Mentor requirements
- They must have a basic understanding of Deep Learning concepts and OpenMined’s PySyft library, and
- They must be willing to stay up to date and familiarise themselves with the curriculum of all ongoing LT initiatives, and the curriculum they are based on (such as OM code tutorials, etc.).
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join
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Team Lead: Peter Smith / @petersmith
Team Members: tbd
Requirements to Join:
- tbd
Accepting New Members? No
Application to Join: tbd
Partnering with like-minded people and organizations
Develops and manages relationships with organizations and individuals who are interested in deploying, funding, or promoting open-source privacy-preserving AI software.
Team Lead: Emma Bluemke
Team Members
Requirements to Join: Informal
Accepting New Members? No
Application to Join: n/a
Creating and sharing OM's community content
Members of the OM community passionate about content creation and building engagement by analyzing the impact of social media activity on the community initiatives.
Team Lead: Madalin Mamuleanu
Team Members
Requirements to Join:
- tbd
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join
Blog Posts, Demos, Tutorials, & Documentation
Data scientists who can train models in the NLP/Computer Vision space, and writers who have experience with and interest in technical and non-technical blog post writing join together to create extensive OM-related resources.
Team Lead: Emma Bluemke
Team Members
Team Roadmap
Requirements to Join:
- You are EITHER: A data scientist who can train models in the NLP/Computer Vision space, OR a writer who has some experience with and interest in technical/blogpost writing
- You are interested in contributing to OpenMined Blogposts & Demos, Tutorial Notebooks & Demos, or Library Documentation
Accepting New Members? YES
Application to Join