Join the community.
Learn AI, compare notes, build agents, get tooling support, and have a real voice in the shared source foundation through contribution, review, and correction.
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AI by the community.
Built in the open.
THE FIRST AND ONLY / OPEN-SOURCE AI
Open source built the world's infrastructure by giving everyone a way to inspect, improve, and participate. OpenWALDO brings that proven model to AI through shared training data, open tools, reproducible models, public provenance, and community governance.
Join the OpenWALDO community ↗Four ways to participate
Find your place
in OpenWALDO.
01 / Join the community
Bring your questions.
Build with the community.
OpenWALDO is a place to learn AI by doing it together. Ask for help, compare notes, share what you know, meet collaborators, and take part in the data, tools, models, and decisions that move the project forward. You do not need a title, a lab, or a rack of GPUs to belong here.
Enter the OpenWALDO Slack ↗Learn AI
Get oriented, ask questions, and learn from people doing the work.
Compare notes
Share discoveries, experiments, failures, and practical lessons.
Build agents
Work through agent design, harnesses, evaluation, and deployment.
Vibe code
Turn ideas into working software and learn by building in public.
Get tooling help
Troubleshoot models, infrastructure, training, and OpenWALDO workflows.
Grow the corpus
Add knowledge, review evidence, and improve the shared foundation.
02 / Grow the corpus
Contribute to the
public corpus.
Put useful knowledge on the record. Individuals and organizations can contribute material people can identify, inspect, and use under declared terms—or help review what is already there. Every submitted index change carries an attributable DCO sign-off.
Contribute or review corpora.
Bring eligible public material, propose a reviewed acquisition recipe, improve source evidence, question a license assertion, or help audit what is already indexed.
Make your public knowledge available to open source AI.
Companies, projects, institutions, and communities can contribute redistributable public documentation with clear origin and license evidence—so future open models can include authoritative material rather than an unexplained scrape.
03 / Build OpenWALDO
Build the project,
not just with it.
OpenWALDO is built in public. Contribute code, test real workflows, strengthen the evidence, improve documentation and design, review changes, or help lead an area. Every contribution makes the project more useful for the next person who arrives.
Engineering
Improve the CLI, ingestion, training workflows, infrastructure, and integrations.
Quality + evidence
Test workflows, audit provenance, reproduce results, and strengthen review.
Docs + experience
Create guides, examples, and design that make complex work understandable.
Stewardship
Review contributions, maintain an area, organize people, or lead a working group.
Private security reports should be sent to gmkurtzer@gmail.com or gmk@ciq.com instead of opened publicly.
04 / Spread the word
Grow the AI
community.
A shared foundation improves when more people can contribute knowledge, review evidence, correct mistakes, strengthen tools, and build from it. Invite the people who should help maintain open-source AI at its source.