Why having a good taste is all you need to build great open-source projects
Kurian Benoy
Saturday, June 22, 2024
$whoami
$whoami
- ML Engineer at Sarvam.ai
- Volunteer @ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC)
- Speaker in International conferences like FOSSASIA Summit, Pycon India, Tensorflow Usergroup India summit etc.
- Creator of indicsubtitler.in and Malayalam voice models like Vegam-whisper, MalWhisper etc.
- Maintains whisper_normalizer a python packages with 397,357+ downloads.
$whoami
- Kaggle expert in Notebooks and Discussions
- FOSS and Python enthusiast
- Writes frequently in linkedin(@kurianbenoy) and twitter(@kurianbenoy2)
- Proud Mallu.
- Knows a bit of ML, Python, Backend, Frontend, Linux, Debian.
Good Taste
What is a great open-source project?
- It’s just a project which you have done excellent job.
- Got some validation in the process of doing it.
- Why you should be blogging
- My favourite quote is: Journey is the Inn.
Attention is all you need
Women who inspired me
- Minu Thomas
- Dr. Anu Benoy (My mother)
- Sunu Abhilash
- My Grandmother (Ammachi)
- Dr. Kavya Manohar
- Sumathi Thirumani
Diving into open-source project
whisper_normalizer- https://pypi.org/project/whisper-normalizer/indicsubtitler.in- https://github.com/kurianbenoy/Indic-Subtitler
About whisper_normalizer
- How it was formed?
- Caring about Indian languages when called out
- Getting used by projects in big companies
- Enjoying the journey to 500K+
About indicsubtitler.in
- When it got build?
- Building it with a fantastic team of Aldrin Jenson and Nabeel Boda.
- Caring about minute details
- Doing charity by giving H100 GPUs to my users :)
Disclaimer
- I bought a lottery and became a millionare.
- Every inspirational speech should come with a disclaimer on Survivorship bias. Also I was lucky to have so many situations in favour for me.
My Coding Journey
- 2016 to 2019: Python, fantastic first teacher
- 2019 to 2020: Kaggle Expert, Pycon India first time Talk, FOSSASIA OpenNights Winner, Building TTS for Malayalam(failed)
- 2020 to 2022: Got a job in AOT Technologies, SMC first contribution
- 2022 to 2024: Got a job in AOT Technologies, Spoke in Pycon India thrice by then, FOSSASIA once more, started whisper_normalizer
- 2024: indicsubtitler building, whisper_normalizer became popular, Got a job at sarvam.ai as ML Engineer
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How to contribute to open-source projects?
- Being part of existing open-source organizations or projects
- Building your own projects
Etiquette of contributing to open-source projects
- Read this PDF
- Read book i want 2 do project. tell me wat 2 do
- Just because you came to a project, don’t start recommending something completely different
- Make good friends.
Go to lot of conferences and events
- FOSSASIA partially sponsored my first trip to Singapore.
- Make more friends
Few strong principles everyone should have IMO
- Be opiniated, you can’t please everyone in world.
- Be a builder, work hard.
- Code can be humbling
- Starting trusting your decisions
- Remember your roots
- Start every day as your first day in acting, coding, learning something new …
Watch this video of Mamooty
Success can be humbling
AMA (Ask me anything)
- Thanks for giving me this opportunity to speak :)