Head of Open Source Ecosystem at Sentient Foundation answer
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Job Description
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Sentient</strong> The Sentient Foundation is building the open-source future of intelligence: AI aligned with humanity and never controlled by a single entity. We’re a neutral, transparent steward of the open AGI ecosystem, uniting researchers, builders, and communities through open research (ROMA, OML, Open Deep Search), global programs like the Open AGI Summit, and a fast-growing builder community.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The role</strong> You’ll own Sentient’s relationship with the global open-source AI community. This includes developers building open models, tools, agents, data, and evals. You’ll be a credible champion for open-source AI as a whole, earn the trust of builders across the ecosystem, and bring the best of them and their projects into Sentient’s orbit. You’ll set community and ecosystem strategy, recruit builders to build on the open ecosystem broadly and on Sentient’s own stack (ROMA, ODS, EvoSkills, Arena, OML), and bring council members, advisors, and recognized thought leaders into the Foundation’s mission and governance. You’ll help drive our open-source AI grants and investment program, which backs great open-source AI wherever it’s built, and carry the community’s needs back into product and research. This is a senior, relationship-first leadership role for a recognized leader in open-source AI.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you'll do</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the Foundation’s community and ecosystem strategy for open-source AI broadly. Champion great open models, tools, agents, and evals across the ecosystem, with Sentient’s own stack (ROMA, ODS, EvoSkills, Arena, OML) as one important part of it. Stand up the programs, content, and team that get developers from zero to shipping.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Champion open-source AI through writing and storytelling, such as tutorials, docs, blog posts, demos, and talks that help developers build with the best of the open ecosystem, including Sentient’s own contributions (ROMA, ODS, OML) where they’re the right tool.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support and help drive Sentient's open-source AI grants / investment program. Source promising projects and builders, vetting technical quality and fit, and shepherding funded teams as they build on the Stack.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead and scale the developer community across Discord, GitHub, and X. Answer hard questions, review contributions, and turn power users into ecosystem partners.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Recruit and convene ecosystem leaders. Bring council members, advisors, and recognized open-source thought leaders into the Foundation’s mission, programs, and governance.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Represent Sentient at hackathons, conferences, and online; run developer workshops and contribute to open-source libraries.</p></li><li><p