Office Hours: Nov 19, 2025

[andrewmchang]

Our first office hours are happening Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 1730–1800 UTC.

Join us to share what’s working and what’s not in real time, and connect directly with T&S peers and RMC model partners.

• Discord event
• Google Meet
• #roost-model-community

Agenda

Introductions

• What is the ROOST Model Community (RMC), and what is the purpose of Office Hours?
• Personal introductions

Q&A / Show and Tell:

• What questions do you have about the RMC?
• What progress have you made in testing, using, or evaluating different open safety models?
• What use cases are you most interested in these models for? What would you like to see more of?

Admin:

• How can the RMC be most helpful to you?
• Office hours scheduling and logistics

What's Next:

• Introduce yourself in GitHub Discussions
• Start a new discussion! Whether it's an implementation question, research findings, or model specific feedback

[andrewmchang]

Light notes from this meeting are below!

Discussed interest in use cases for open safety models, including:

• Content moderation and review
• Performance comparisons between human and model reviewers to help with iterating on policies
• Addressing multimodal challenges (age identification, media annotation, etc.)
• Quality assurance
• Prevalence testing

Interest in resourcing includes:

• Compute to explore the model
• UIs to test model performance, especially for less technical teams