From a6121e240e37d44b0cdde4dc6778dcf5df3e15b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ettore Di Giacinto Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 23:37:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: credit the LocalAI maintainers team Update README and docs to attribute maintenance to the LocalAI team (Ettore Di Giacinto and Richard Palethorpe) and drop the autonomous AI dev team section. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Bash] --- README.md | 15 ++++++++------- docs/content/overview.md | 11 ++++++++++- docs/data/landing.yaml | 2 +- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cdef8622a..9f405442a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ - **Built-in AI agents** — autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills - **Privacy-first** — your data never leaves your infrastructure -Created and maintained by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler). +Created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler) and maintained by the [LocalAI team](#team). > [:book: Documentation](https://localai.io/) | [:speech_balloon: Discord](https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy) | [💻 Quickstart](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/) | [🖼️ Models](https://models.localai.io/) | [❓FAQ](https://localai.io/faq/) @@ -201,13 +201,14 @@ See the full [Backend & Model Compatibility Table](https://localai.io/model-comp - [Media & blog posts](https://localai.io/basics/news/#media-blogs-social) - [Examples](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI-examples) -## Autonomous Development Team +## Team -LocalAI is helped being maintained by a team of autonomous AI agents led by an AI Scrum Master. +LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors. -- **Live Reports**: [reports.localai.io](http://reports.localai.io) -- **Project Board**: [Agent task tracking](https://github.com/users/mudler/projects/6) -- **Blog Post**: [Learn about the experiment](https://mudler.pm/posts/2026/02/28/a-call-to-open-source-maintainers-stop-babysitting-ai-how-i-built-a-100-local-autonomous-dev-team-to-maintain-localai-and-why-you-should-too/) +- **[Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler)** — original author and project lead +- **[Richard Palethorpe](https://github.com/richiejp)** — maintainer + +A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in [Discord](https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy) — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full [contributors list](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/graphs/contributors). ## Citation @@ -250,7 +251,7 @@ A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on [GitHub](https://gith ## License -LocalAI is a community-driven project created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler/). +LocalAI is a community-driven project created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler/) and maintained by the [LocalAI team](#team). MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto diff --git a/docs/content/overview.md b/docs/content/overview.md index 4a1e8007d..aec385a2d 100644 --- a/docs/content/overview.md +++ b/docs/content/overview.md @@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ Ready to dive in? Here are some recommended next steps: 5. [Try out examples]({{% relref "getting-started/try-it-out" %}}) 6. [Join the community](https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy) +## Team + +LocalAI is created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler) and maintained by the LocalAI team: + +- **[Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler)** — original author and project lead +- **[Richard Palethorpe](https://github.com/richiejp)** — maintainer + +LocalAI is helped by the wider community of contributors. See the full [contributors list](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/graphs/contributors). + ## License -LocalAI is MIT licensed, created and maintained by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler). +LocalAI is MIT licensed. diff --git a/docs/data/landing.yaml b/docs/data/landing.yaml index 1376f16cc..fd5150d2f 100644 --- a/docs/data/landing.yaml +++ b/docs/data/landing.yaml @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ imageText: title: LocalAI - Run AI models locally with ease subtitle: | LocalAI makes it simple to run various AI models on your own hardware. From text generation to image creation, autonomous agents to semantic search - all orchestrated through a unified API. - LocalAI, created by **Ettore Di Giacinto (mudler)**, is a Free and Open Source, community-driven project to make Free, Open AI accessible to everyone. The LocalAI stack is MIT licensed, and the models trained by LocalAI are available under the Apache 2.0 License. + LocalAI, created by **[Ettore Di Giacinto (mudler)](https://github.com/mudler)** and maintained by the **LocalAI team** (Ettore Di Giacinto and **[Richard Palethorpe (richiejp)](https://github.com/richiejp)**), is a Free and Open Source, community-driven project to make Free, Open AI accessible to everyone. The LocalAI stack is MIT licensed, and the models trained by LocalAI are available under the Apache 2.0 License. list: - text: OpenAI API compatibility