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I wonder if the visual play of the Oreo mimicking a solar eclipse on the homepage [1] is a coincidence, seeing as how it was released on the 21st.

[1] https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/

Also see https://github.com/Vitallium/phantomium

This is very exciting. How are you looking at facilitating these collaborations? Will there be a listing of sorts, where, say, ML researchers would say "I need a dataviz guy" and then dataviz specialists can apply, almost like a job (or rather more like matchmaking I guess--bad analogy)?

Or would said facilitation be done by the admins / editors / steering committee? If so, then how do you plan on finding dataviz people? I'm asking this in particular because I would imagine that people who have ML findings to talk about would probably contact you ("I researched such and such, and found such and such. Now I would love to publish in Distill"). But I wonder if data visualization specialists would do the same thing. Contacting with "hey, I love data viz, would love to collaborate with somebody looking for one" feels a little inappropriate to me.

Thoughts?

As another designer + researcher with a varied background and an interest in data viz as well as ML, I am super interested in this as a potential contributor. I have experience creating an interactive visualization interface for simple ML algorithms (which has been used by professors in the life sciences department to understand / get a new perspective on what's happening). I would LOVE to be able to be involved with Distill.

I have actually been meaning to write a paper on my findings and have been looking for journals to write for. However it doesn't quite "fit" with most journals. Distill looks like it's more catered to "professional" machine learning people, at least for now. Is there any way that somebody with my background (design+data viz+development+interest and curiosity to learn ML) could be involved with Distill?

A Pastebin of a Nodevember Slack channel, should provide more context: http://pastebin.com/3mQc7DfG

There is some discussion about the reason, and whether Nodevember should disclose a reason or make a public statement. For instance:

"Josh Crews [9:57 AM] Maybe Nodevember could make a public statement along these lines, "After announcing Crockford as a keynote speaker, we learned from others of things he's done and said at previous conferences that are against our Code of Conduct"

HermitPy [9:57 AM] why do we need to do that

[9:57] what does that do other than add more fuel to a fire?

Andrew Albright [9:57 AM] It would save people time for trying to find the answer themselves

[9:58] 'cause I burned at least ten minutes this morning to satiate my curiosity

HermitPy [9:58 AM] I personally hope people will do some research and form their own opinion

Andrew Albright [9:58 AM] ^ good point

Josh Crews [9:58 AM] you are reputation tarnishing somebody if you are not clear about the disinvitation

Andrew Albright [9:58 AM] opinion and reason for the decision are two different things though

HermitPy [9:58 AM] no doubt

Russ Anderson [9:58 AM] I will say that it’s difficult to do the research. I don’t think the twitter trail is very edifying. This chat has been much more helpful.

HermitPy [9:59 AM] We're dismissing a keynoter without context other than they didn't fit our view of the community (edited)

Russ Anderson [9:59 AM] however, I agree that you don’t owe anyone anything

HermitPy [10:00 AM] All this whole thing has done is ensure that I won't do one more fucking thing for the community, so next year other people can run their own conference and pick their own shit and deal with it (edited)"