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GoDataDriven open source contribution: March 2018 edition

Giovanni Lanzani

Updated April 30, 2025

3 minutes

Welcome to the Open Source at GoDataDriven, March 2018 edition.

And what an edition, it's fully packed!

Let's start with Kris:

he contributed PR 753 to Neo4J Apoc procedures;
PR 5 to his Docker-Kafka image.

But he didn't work alone! Together with Bas, they contributed to PR 1, 2, and 3 to our Ansible scripts to install Druid! Bas kept on chumming though, and contributed to Scruid PR 9, what our own Fokko defined as "pure art!"

Fokko wasn't exactly dormant though — even though he might have had to do open source work while sleeping, as there's no other explanation to his prolificness!

He contributed PR 122 and 123 to failsafe;
Then PR 165 to Stocator;
PR 3054, 3113, 3114, 3130, 3141, and 3165 to Apache Airflow;
Speaking about Airflow, he helped his friend Daniel with PR 6 to his data-testing-with-airflow repository;
Not happy with all of this he also helped Google, with PR 3059 to google-cloud-java;
He did then some more, helping our own Divolte with PR 191, 192, and 194.

I played a bit more with JupyterLab, resulting in PR 579, 580, and 586 to Jupyter's own docker-stack.

Now onto the next bit!

Pandas documentation sprint

On the tenth of March, there has been a global effort to improve the API documentation for pandas: worldwide people sat together and started contributing away.

GoDataDriven hosted — of course we did — the Dutch effort: Janelle and Vincent coordinated the event and on a Saturday a dozen volunteers met at our office. This resulted in PR 20181, 20146, 20278, 20279, 20275, 20274 by Janelle and PR 20218 and 20230 by Vincent.