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under Linux Foundation selects ambassadors to grow the open-source AI agent ecosystem through code, content, and community. How it works • • • • • Monthly contributions to AAIF projects Code: PRs, issues, reviews Content: blogs, talks, tutorials Community: events, mentoring Monthly town hall participation Why I joined • • • Bridge AAIF and Japan's AI agent community Contribute upstream from real-world telco/k8s experience Grow the ecosystem in Japan 4
problem Every KServe model had to be registered in agentgateway by hand, no auto-discovery The chain Issue #2323 (agentgateway) → redirected → Issue #5729 (KServe) Already supported via LLMInferenceServiceConfig, tested on my cluster, no code change needed Docs PR #697 (+397 lines), merged Jul 22 Then opened a code fix PR #5697 Why it worked Maintainers can tell when someone has actually tested what they're proposing.
of us do this alongside a day job. 01 Ask before building 02 Test before claiming 03 Accept redirection 04 Follow through; even when review takes weeks My first read was wrong. The community had the better answer. Thanks to howardjohn · danehans (agentgateway) and bartoszmajsak · pierDipi (KServe)
write a tutorial Join an AAIF Working Group Write AGENTS.md for your project File reproducible issues Come to meetups Share what you tried Code & PRs Events & Talks Submit PRs to AAIF projects (agentgateway, Goose, MCP) Getting Started aaif.io/get-involved
at work The best contributions come out of something that actually blocked you. Propose with evidence Test it on your own cluster first. Maintainers can tell. One question moved two ecosystems Issue #2323 → Issue #5729 → Docs PR #697 → Code fix PR #5697
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