Hello!

I’ve started a community wiki that everyone from all walks of backgrounds could help contribute and share their knowledge with others. This would be a great place to do tricks and tips, more concise documentation to do specific things.

Contribution is through the usual methods of either submitting a pull request. I’m willing to entertain giving folks priv access since a single person is not scalable. I’m certainly willing to give to folks who represent other architectures like Arm, RocM, Nvidia, RISC-V and so on. The wiki should be a resource for everyone. The only thing I ask is to follow the PR process regardless so that we can at least look over grammar and spelling for consistency sake.

The wiki also has documentation on how to build oneAPI and the DPC++ compiler from source. One of the things I’m really interested in, is being able to build documentation how to install the DPC++ compiler into system install areas - eg /usr/{lib,include} - installing it into a non-system target make distributing applications based on oneAPI much harder. We should eliminate that.

There are a LOT of interesting directions that we can take this. I’d love to start having weekly meetings on how we could work together on these builds and turn them into something independent of companies and make it a true community directive. Interested? Reach out! Hit the comments or find me on the HPC Social Slack! 🙂

We have plans for a community driven project showcase as well that I’m hoping will also help drive more projects using oneAPI but that isn’t there yet. If you’re curious feel free to check out https://oneapi-community.github.io/ - I’m using Hugo. I wrote the CSS on it - I’m not a front-end web developer. But I couldn’t find a Hugo theme that would show off projects. So like any good open source person, I wrote one - and scratched that itch! Once I have worked out all the kinks, I will release the Hugo theme. I also never used GitHub actions before - so that was a fun trip too. 😀

If you’re interested in helping out with the wiki - please check out: https://github.com/oneapi-community/community/wiki. PRs are most welcome.

I hope to start working on other community related projects like builds and packaging over the next 6 months or so. If you’re interested in helping out with any of this - please let me know.

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