I want to talk about the inception of a FOSS Project whose purpose was just normalizing text with whisper normalizer and how it got unexpectly this much downlaods of almost like 200K per month in some nice months or around cumulatively reached 1M+ downloads.
This was originally created for Malayalam ASR Benchmarking project, but then we found issues for Malayalam in this library and based on which Kavya et al. published a paper EMNLP, 2024. How we fixed this issues.
I will also walk through for beginners how to create a python package and also share at end of talk as an inspiration on why you should also talk in conferences like this.
Journey of how to grow a python FOSS project by solving a problem for you
What is whisper_normalizer doing and how to use it?
Growth of FOSS project and how it is being enabled
How to create a new python package and inspirational stuff at the end
I don't think talking about packaging a Python project is particularly useful. It has been tricky to do in the past, but projects like uv are making it better https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/package/
The proposal can be made clearer, but I like the idea of it. I think it can be useful to talk about what it takes to make a project usable for a wider audience. Publishing, documenting, responding to GitHub issues, etc.
Insufficient content. And the structure of the talk is not clear.