Please be careful to not share any code / data related to a Kaggle competition privately outside of an official Kaggle team. Any information shared in such a manner should be also shared back with the Kaggle community. This would be breaking Kaggle rules and would also be not so great sportmanship.
I am fully aware no foul play was intended here, but if we were to form a fastai group and it were not to be an official Kaggle team, we would be effectively at an unfair advantage vs all the other people participating in the competition. This also means that if some of us will form an official Kaggle team, they should not be using a forum thread accessible to others to communicate / share code / discuss ideas.
Don’t mean to sound harsh and I think your instinct to collaborate is awesome and is what learning is about - hence we have these forums 
Just wanted to chime in to make sure we stay on the right side of the law 
One thing that maybe we could do would be to start a thread specifically for forming teams from within our cohort. Maybe everyone interested could write a couple of words on what competition they would be interested in collaborating on and how they would like to communicate / what their background is? Once people would agree to form a team, they could just head over to Kaggle and make it official and figure out via which channels to communicate? If anyone finds this idea interesting please feel free to start the thread
Also, I think there would be a lot of value in taking what we learn in this course and applying it to different datasets. Maybe we could have a challenge thread where we could try applying info from lecture X to this and this dataset and discuss issues / approaches / results? Happy to facilitate such threads if there would be interest.
BTW. if someone is interested in Kaggle competitions I seem to have created a thread some time ago on the Dogs vs Cats competition that doesn’t seem to want to die It is here:
I guess I was amazed how well I and other people from the course did with just material from the first couple of lectures The stuff we will learn here is really powerful.
Anyhow, have been gone from DL for too long so looking forward to getting my feet wet again And maybe once a competition finish, we might have another thread like the above to discuss our approaches and share experience, but I guess we need to wait till a competition ends.
BTW. in reality I am a newb to all this, and certainly to participating in Kaggle competitions, thus hoping I did not get much wrong with regards to the rules, but please take what I write with a grain of salt Any definitive info on what is allowed and what isn’t should probably come from @jeremy or directly from Kaggle rules.
This course is happening and we are here!!! Oh man this will be amazing!