Turing.jl: JuliaCon hackathon?

[hessammehr]

Sorry if this is not be the ideal place to discuss a hackathon (and I wonder if this has already been discussed elsewhere) but with JuliaCon only a week away I was wondering if we have enough contributors attending to propose a Turing/probabilistic programming hackathon.

Personally, my knowledge of MCMC is limited but I would love to learn more about the internals of Turing and start contributing should there be a Turing hackathon. I imagine there being quite a few JuliaCon participants in the same positions so this might be a good opportunity to attract potential contributors.

[yebai]

@hessammehr It's a great idea. There are quite a few Turing team members attending JuliaCon, including @trappmartin @wesselb @willtebbutt.

@xukai92 didn't get a ticket yet but would like to attend if possible.

cc'ing @MikeInnes @ChrisRackauckas

[xukai92]

Sounds good. Feel like we can set up some probabilistic modelling tasks and guide people using Turing.jl to work on them.

As @yebai said I didn't manage to get a ticket before it was sold out. It was be nice if I can attend but if that's impossible I can still help on preparation or stuff.

[ChrisRackauckas]

I will likely be spending a lot of time with the DifferentialEquations.jl group during the Hackathon, but I will stop by and @Vaibhavdixit02 should as well.

[Vaibhavdixit02]

That sounds like an awesome idea and I would love to take part in such a hackathon!