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<h1 align="center" style="font-size: 2em; margin-bottom: 0;">Hugging Face Builders</h1>
<p align="center" style="font-size: 1.2em; color: #6B7280; margin-top: 4px;"><strong>Bring open-source ML to your city.</strong></p>

**Hugging Face Builders** is a global community program that puts local leaders at the center of the open-source machine learning movement. Builders run city-based chapters — hosting meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks — creating local home bases for everything open-source AI.

<h2>🛠️ What Builders Do</h2>

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**🗓️ Organize events**

Plan and run meetups, workshops, or hackathons in your city.

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**🎤 Curate content**

Find speakers, propose topics, and keep talks focused on open-source AI — case studies, libraries, demos, new research, and more.

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**🤝 Build community**

Create a welcoming space where beginners and experts alike can learn, share, and build together.

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<h2>📣 Event Formats</h2>

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**Community Meetups**

2–3 hours with longer talks, lightning talks, and networking. The backbone of every chapter — regular, accessible, and a great way to keep your community engaged.

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**🛠️ Build Days**

Hands-on sessions where teams build projects using open-source ML tools. Great for learning by doing and shipping something real.

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<h2>🎁 What You Get</h2>

🏅 **Official Builder title** and recognition on Hugging Face
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👕 **Swag kits** for you and your chapter members
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💰 **Hugging Face credits**
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🤗 **Resources & support** from the Hugging Face team

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<h2>🚀 How It Works</h2>

**1. You apply** — Tell us about yourself, your city, and why you want to lead a chapter.

**2. You launch** — Once accepted, we'll support you to kick off your first event.

**3. You grow** — Keep your chapter active and thriving.

Chapters are recognized once they have an active Builder. We review chapters annually to make sure communities stay healthy.

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<h2>🔍 Who We're Looking For</h2>

Someone genuinely excited about open-source AI, with the drive to organize and show up consistently. Whether you've run communities before or this is your first time — if you care about open-source AI and want to bring people together, we want to hear from you.