About Us¶
Roles¶
The roles are described in aeon’s governance document.
A list of all contributors can be found here.
Code of Conduct Workgroup¶
The code of conduct workgroup maintains the code of conduct and handles any issues related that arise.
Communications Workgroup¶
The communications workgroup manages the project’s communication channels.
Finance Workgroup¶
The finance workgroup is responsible for managing the project’s finances.
Infrastructure Workgroup¶
The infrastructure workgroup is responsible for managing the project’s infrastructure and CI.
Release Management Workgroup¶
The release management workgroup is responsible for managing the project’s releases.
Core Developers¶
The core developers push forward aeon’s development and maintain the package.
History¶
aeon was started in January 2023 as a fork of the sktime project by 8 core
developers using v0.16.0
as a base. In following year, the project grew to include an additional 4 core
developers and was accepted as a NumFOCUS affiliated project in December 2023.
Artwork¶
High quality PNG, JPG and EPS logos are available are located in the docs/images/logo/ directory on GitHub.
The logo was designed by Reni Rahayu via crowdspring.
Funding¶
aeon is a community-driven project. However, institutional and private grants help to
ensure its sustainability.
The project developers would like to thank the following funders.
The UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funds Matthew Middlehurst (@matthewmiddlehurst) and Tony Bagnall (@TonyBagnall) since 2022 |
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Infrastructure¶
We would also like to thank GitHub Actions and ReadtheDocs for the free compute time on their servers and documentation hosting.
Affiliation¶
aeon is an affiliated project of NumFOCUS.
Pre-fork Acknowledgements¶
sktime v0.16.0 core developers
The following listed contributors were part of the sktime core developer team at some
point prior to the split of the project.
sktime v0.16.0 funders
As a fork of the sktime project, aeon has benefited from funding given to sktime
prior to the projects split. We would like to thank the funders from before the split.
The Alan Turing Institute funded three months of the initial development under the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund. |
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Markus Löning’s (@mloning) contributions between 2019 and 2021 were supported by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC), the Enrichment Scheme at the The Alan Turing Institute, and the JROST Rapid Response Fund, a community effort of Invest in Open Infrastructure. |
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Mercedes-Benz AG/Daimler AG donated 2500 EUR to support the maintenance and development of sktime in 2021, as part of their FOSS program. |
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Sprints
The 2019 joint sktime/MLJ development sprint was kindly hosted by UCL and The Alan Turing Institute. Some participants could attend thanks to the initial funding of the The Alan Turing Institute.
Internships
Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Major League Hacking and Outreachy have all sponsored sktime internships.
The Wellcome Trust sponsored one sktime internship as part of Outreachy.
Name |
GitHub ID |
Organization |
Year |
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Katie Buchhorn |
Google Summer of Code |
2022 |
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Mirae Parker |
Google Summer of Code |
2022 |
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Shivansh Subramanian |
Google Summer of Code |
2022 |
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Guzal Bulatova |
Outreachy |
2021 |
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Svea Marie Meyer |
Google Summer of Code via INCF |
2021 |