About us ======== History ------- This project was started by Alykhan Tejani `@alykhantejani `_, Francisco Massa `@fmassa `_ and Joost van Amersfoort `@y0ast `_ in the end of 2017 and was highly inspired by `torchnet `_. In 2018 project core teams has grown and the first public release was published in June 2018. Since then, several releases have appeared following a ~5 month cycle, and a thriving international community has been leading the development. Governance ---------- This project is purely open-source community effort. Project's affiliation to `PyTorch group `_ is due to historical reasons and it has the same implication to the project's governance as for other community projects from `PyTorch Ecosystem `_. The decision making process and governance structure of the project is described in the `governance document `_. Authors ------- The following people are currently core contributors to PyTorch-Ignite’s development and maintenance: - Victor Fomin `@vfdev-5 `_ - Anmol Joshi `@anmolsjoshi `_ - Sylvain Desroziers `@sdesrozis `_ Emeritus Core Developers ------------------------ The following people have been active contributors in the past, but are no longer active in the project: - Alykhan Tejani `@alykhantejani `_ - Jason Kriss `@jasonkriss `_ Join Core Team -------------- We are looking for motivated contributors to become collaborators and help out with the project. We can start considering a candidate after several successfully merged Github pull requests. If you are interested, for more details, please, contact Victor (@vfdev-5) on `PyTorch Slack `_ or via email `vfdev.5` at `gmail.com`. Citing PyTorch-Ignite --------------------- If you use pytorch-ignite in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the project. .. code-block:: text @misc{pytorch-ignite, author = {V. Fomin and J. Anmol and S. Desroziers and J. Kriss and A. Tejani}, title = {High-level library to help with training neural networks in PyTorch}, year = {2020}, publisher = {GitHub}, journal = {GitHub repository}, howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pytorch/ignite}}, } Acknowledgements ---------------- We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of `all open-source developers `_ who helped get this project off of the ground and supported the project. We especially appreciate amazing work of Isabela Presedo-Floyd `@isabela-pf `_ on project's logo, its `elaboration `_ and `guidelines `_. Our new logos can be found `here `_. We are also grateful to Soumith Chintala `@soumith `_, Joe Spisak `@jspisak `_ from Facebook for their help and to `PyTorch group `_ for infrastructure support (GPU CI and hosting of conda releases and our documentation). In particular, Victor Fomin `@vfdev-5 `_ acknowledges `Magellium `_ and `Quansight `_ for supporting project's development. Sylvain Desroziers `@sdesrozis `_ also gratefully acknowledges the support of `IFPEN `_. We also acknowledge `scikit-learn project `_'s documentation on governance, author's presentation etc from which this project is highly inspired.