Freelancers, working professionals, students, dropouts, hobbyists, indie developers, PhD candidates, engineers between roles — the Edge Case Library is being built by a distributed community. Named recognition. Remote-first. Every contribution credited.
Enroll now →Contribute as time allows. Every contribution named and credited. No minimum commitment. Pseudonym opt-in supported.
Sustained participation in a specific working group. Bi-weekly cadence. Named on the About page as a working-group member. Steer benchmark and dataset direction.
A structured six-month fellowship for individual contributors — stipend, mentorship, and a defined project scope. Details published Q4 2026.
Join the fellowship waitlist →Contribute a V1-V3 case from your work with LeRobot metadata.
Read a draft, comment, propose corrections.
Take a paper or post into your language.
Cover a topic you understand well. Guides earn credited authorship.
Draft an evaluation protocol for a defined task in a working group.
Co-author working-paper sections on validation, scoring, or reproducibility.
Every contributor is credited by name in the artifact they contributed to (paper, blog, dataset, benchmark, tutorial). Pseudonym opt-in supported for those who prefer that. Contributors who consent are listed publicly in the grid below.
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No. Freelancers, students, PhD candidates, engineers between roles, hobbyists, and indie developers all contribute equally. Named recognition is on the artifact contributed to, not on any employer.
Not for every contribution path. Reviewing papers, translating posts, and writing tutorials do not require code. Submitting edge cases and designing benchmark protocols do require code familiarity.
Yes. Pseudonym opt-in is supported for every contribution path. Named recognition applies to the pseudonym you choose.
Depends on your employer. Some employers restrict outside contributions to open source or research projects — check your employment agreement. If your contributions arise from your work at that employer, get consent first.
No. Community contributions and working group participation are not paid. The Fellowship Program (Cohort 1 opens Q1 2027) is a structured, stipended program — separate from community contribution.
Track A (Community Contributor) has no minimum. Contribute as time allows. Track B (Working Group Member) is a bi-weekly cadence — expect 2-4 hours per fortnight.
Every contribution goes through community review. Rejections come with feedback so the contribution can be revised. Nothing merged is unrecoverable — the review process is public.
No. Contributors span every level of formal training. What matters is the quality of the contribution and its reproducibility.
Yes. Undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students all contribute. Some universities count Smiling Buddha contributions toward independent-study credit — check with your department.
Yes. Every contribution is remote. Contributors are global.
Community Contributors contribute as time allows, on any of the six contribution paths. Working Group Members participate on a bi-weekly cadence in one of the five working groups, and help steer benchmark and dataset direction for that group.
Enroll below. You'll get a confirmation email with the current cohort intake process, the contribution path guide, and (if you selected Track B) the working group intake schedule.
Pick a track. Enrollment goes to [email protected] — you'll get a confirmation with the current cohort intake process.
