Flyte adopts a new community governance model
Author: David Espejo (OSS Developer Advocate, Union.ai)
“The barrier to entry in AI is lower than ever before, thanks to open source software” says Dr. Ibrahim Haddad, Executive Director of the AI & Data Foundation, the organization that hosts some of the most critical projects in the ML/Data ecosystem. Keeping those barriers low, and creating new mechanisms for AI practitioners to develop expertise by contributing to open source, is a top priority for projects like Flyte.
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