Open source software deserves celebration. Its impact on the world is profound and transformative. Recently, I began porting the 3D Gaussian splatting paper to C++ and CUDA with an aim to optimize the training speed of such models. This endeavor was only possible because the original authors open-sourced their work. The feedback has been encouraging, and I feel that I'm making a difference—perhaps even more than in my regular job. That said, it's essential to remember that contributing to open source, while rewarding, can be demanding if it's not your full-time occupation. Yet, through such efforts, we ensure these tools remain freely accessible and aren't monopolized by corporations. I provide you the link to this GitHub project in case you are interested. https://github.com/MrNeRF/gaussian-splatting-cuda