# contributors

Built by the community

VAOS is governed under open-source principles, sponsored by eye3.ai, and built by an active developer community across robotics, industrial, infrastructure, and research.

# core team + community

50+ contributors and growing

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Core maintainers

Architects of the runtime, the Scene Contract, and the validation envelope. Reviewing every PR.

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Plugin authors

Building the perception, reasoning, and action plugins that ship in the marketplace.

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Researchers

Robotics labs and computer-vision groups validating OSTVAL on edge hardware in the wild.

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Hardware integrators

Camera-module, edge-board, and OEM teams shipping VAOS-ready products to production.

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Doc writers

The reason quickstart works in 5 minutes. Translations and tutorials welcome.

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Community helpers

Answering questions on Discord and Discussions, triaging issues, hosting meetups.

# become a contributor

Open contribution model

Every meaningful PR earns recognition in the contributor index. No CLA gymnastics — Apache 2.0, transparent governance.

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