There are plenty of ways to contribute to the RISC-V community.
From organizing community events to writing, speaking, building technical communities, and growing RISC-V in new regions, our advocates are finding different ways to get involved.
See what some of our advocates are doing, find something that inspires you, and get involved.
Guodong Xu: From RVA23 to Real-World Adoption
Guodong Xu is helping connect RISC-V standards with real-world implementation.
At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026, he spoke about the path from ratification to adoption. He also recently shared his perspective in “RVA23: From Ratification to Real-World Readiness”.
Guodong also participates in the RISE Platform Working Group and regularly shares RISC-V developments with his network. His recent work includes a paper accepted for the RISC-V Micro-Conference at Linux Plumbers Conference and a whitepaper on RISC-V in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Tobias Scheipel: Building, Teaching, and Growing the RISC-V Community
Tobias is contributing to the RISC-V community across research, education, open hardware, and community building.
He co-organized MATTERV, a RISC-V special session at DSD 2026 focused on RISC-V hardware, software, tools, and open educational resources.
Together with fellow Advocate Alessandra Dolmeta and other organizers, Tobias helped establish the first OpenSoC4HE workshop, where he serves as Program Chair, bringing educators and open-hardware practitioners together to share teaching experiences and resources.
His work also includes research on RISC-V ISA extensions and digital design education, serving on the jury for the LAYR Open Chips Challenge, and supporting the RISC-V Community Challenge with HaDes-V. He helped participants throughout the challenge, brought the hands-on workshop to Bologna during RISC-V Summit Europe, and co-hosted the final online presentations in August.
He also recently joined his student Bernd Stelzl for the first RISC-V Builders episode, where they shared how they turned the HaDes-V teaching processor into a RISC-V system capable of running DOOM.
From research and education to community events and open hardware, Tobias is helping create opportunities for others to learn, contribute, and build with RISC-V.
Jingwei Wang: Growing the RISC-V Software Ecosystem
Jingwei Wang is helping build the RISC-V software ecosystem through his work with the openEuler RISC-V SIG.
In the last few months, he helped organize and facilitate public biweekly meetings, bringing contributors together to discuss technical issues, project updates, releases, and ecosystem development.
He also co-presented “openEuler for RVA23: Building a RISC-V Server OS with Ecosystem Partners” at RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 and helps coordinate RISC-V community content covering topics from secure boot to RISC-V server platforms and openRuyi.
Tan Siret Akinci: Growing RISC-V in Turkey
Tan is taking his advocacy local, focusing on growing the RISC-V community in Turkey.
He is working toward building a local community around RISC-V and developing RISC-V-based SoCs and FPGA development boards.
He also shares his interest in RISC-V hardware through his RISC-V Hardware Chronicle, a newsletter featuring lesser-known RISC-V-based hardware.
It’s a different kind of advocacy, focused on bringing RISC-V to new people, places, and projects.
Get Involved
Now that you’ve seen what RISC-V advocacy can look like, why not get involved yourself? Connect with RISC-V Advocates in your community or become an Advocate and start contributing.
