# About sktime

Learn about sktime, the open-source time series machine learning project and the professional team supporting enterprise adoption.

Canonical page: https://www.sktime.net/about/

## Open source AI for time series, by experts

sktime combines a broad community project with commercial implementation support, so teams can adopt time series machine learning with confidence.

## The open-source project

A unified Python framework for time series machine learning.

- Forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, and transformation
- 500+ models behind one consistent API
- Free and open under the permissive BSD-3-Clause license

## The community

Built in the open, by people from research and industry.

- Hundreds of contributors worldwide
- Transparent issues, discussions, and releases
- Mentoring and upskilling for every career stage

## The enterprise team

Professional support when you take sktime to production.

- Implementation and production integration
- Dedicated support and training
- A separate company that keeps the project open

## What sktime strives to be

- A comprehensive, easy-to-use, easy-to-extend Python framework for ML and AI with time series.
- Open source, permissively licensed, and free — openly governed by its community, with a charitable core.
- A friendly, inclusive community, committed to fairness and equal opportunity.
- A neutral platform for the ecosystem that mentors and upskills people at every career stage.

## How sktime is governed

sktime is a consensus-based community project. Anyone with an interest can join, contribute, and take part in how it is run.

### Clearly defined roles

- Contributors
- Algorithm maintainers
- Core developers
- Code of Conduct committee
- Community Council

### How decisions are made

- Propose in the open: Decisions happen on public issues and pull requests.
- Consensus or vote: We use lazy consensus with a veto right; otherwise we vote.
- Council resolves: The Community Council settles anything left open.

Larger changes need a written Enhancement Proposal (STEP). This covers the open-source project; the wider GC.OS ecosystem is governed separately.

- Read sktime project governance: https://www.sktime.net/docs/get-involved/governance/
- Read GC.OS ecosystem governance: https://gcos.ai/blog/governance/

## Council, core developers, and enterprise team

Three groups keep sktime moving: the Community Council, the core developers, and the enterprise team.

Many of us wear more than one hat — tags below show where each person also contributes.

- Community Council: Elected members who steer the open-source project.
- Core developers: Maintainers with write access who drive reviews and releases.
- Enterprise team: sktime enterprise solutions GmbH — a separate company for implementation, support, and training.