The Untold Stories of Open Source

The Linux Foundation

Open Source is embedded in every software application you touch today. It’s impossible to build a large scale application without it. The real question is, what’s the story behind that component, application, or framework you just downloaded? Not the specs. Not the functionality. The real story: “Who wrote the code? What is their backstory? What led them to the Open Source community?” From the Linux Foundation office in New York City, welcome to "The Untold Stories of Open Source". Each week we explore the people who are supporting Open Source projects, how they became involved with it, and the prob...

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The Untold Stories of Open Source

Episodes (15)

Sep 22, 2022 The Story Behind PyTorch and the Community Who Maintains It, with Soumith Chintala
Sep 15, 2022 Managing an Open Source Program Office, with Ashley Wolf, GitHub
Sep 8, 2022 Is the finance industry using open source? Yes. Yes it is!, with Gabriele Columbro

The Untold Stories of Open Source

Sep 22, 2022
33¼ minutes
31 MB

There’s no need to bury the lead here. Soumith Chintala is the central figure in a major transition in the world of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He works at Meta where he’s the manager of PyTorch, an open source machine learning framework that was recently transferred to the Linux Foundation. PyTorch enables ML engineers to deploy new AI models in minutes rather than weeks. Soumith has been a community leader for the past decade, but he was a self-described introvert when he was growing up in Hyderabad. He is a researcher with over 52,000 citations and...

The Untold Stories of Open Source

The Story Behind PyTorch and the Community Who Maintains It, with Soumith Chintala

The Linux Foundation

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