# Contributors

> Rice is made in the open. These are the people whose work is in it, with the pull requests they sent, straight from the repository on GitHub.

Updated 2026-10-20. https://ricenotes.app/contributors

Why contribute (30 s): A 30-second film about contributing to Rice: one pull request moved Windows transcription to the graphics card, and 333 seconds of speech went from about 20 minutes to 13 seconds. Open source, local and free. https://ricenotes.app/media/contribuir-v1/rice-contribuir-en-16x9.mp4

## People

- [Walisson](https://github.com/WalissonCF) (@WalissonCF): Creator and maintainer, 35 commits
- [Gustavo Hora](https://github.com/gustavohorach) (@gustavohorach)
  - [#1](https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/pull/1) fix: ~/rice clone collides with ~/Rice notes folder on APFS (app strips +x from the scripts); vendored webrtc tarball; get.sh ${DIR}… under bash 3.2
- [Thales de Oliveira Morandi](https://github.com/thalesmorandi) (@thalesmorandi)
  - [#2](https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/pull/2) Windows: fix Node version check in install.ps1 on Windows PowerShell 5.1
  - [#3](https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/pull/3) test: freeze the clock in the Updates page tests (they only passed on Oct 15)
  - [#6](https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/pull/6) Windows: transcription on the GPU (Vulkan), with a switch in Settings

## How to contribute

Code, a bug report or an idea: all of it helps. Rice is written in TypeScript, with Electron and small native helpers in Swift and C++, and the app speaks English and Portuguese.

1. **Open an issue.** Describe the bug or the idea, with your system and the version of Rice. For a large change, an issue first saves work on both sides.
2. **Make the change.** Fork the repository and work on a branch. Before sending, run `npm run typecheck` and `npm test`. If the change adds text to the app, write it in both languages.
3. **Send a pull request.** Say what changed and how you tested it. Every pull request runs the typecheck, the tests and the build on macOS and on Windows, and gets a review and an answer.

- Open an issue: https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/issues
- Open pull requests: https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice/pulls
- README with the setup: https://github.com/WalissonCF/rice#readme