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Hi all -

Wanted to follow up on this and give you all a first look at the 
Speakers Bureau. I want to stress that this is a first rev. As we start 
collecting more data from Speakers, we'll be able to offer a more fully 
featured Bureau. That said, we've tried to take all the major requests 
from the community and incorporate them into this round. The page is 
currently live, but hidden. We'll do an unveiling after everyone has a 
chance to comment :)

A few features that we've added:

Speaker Profile (https://www.openstack.org/profile/speaker)
- Willing to Travel
- Countries willing to travel to
- Languages Spoken
- Areas of Expertise
- Links to previous presentations

Speakers Bureau (https://www.openstack.org/community/speakers)
- Search by name, expertise, company
- Filter by Language Spoken, Country of Origin,
- Countries willing to travel to

Speaker Profile (https://www.openstack.org/community/speakers/profile/398)
- Front End of Speaker Profile
- Ability to contact speakers through an online form

Looking forward to your feedback!

Thanks much,
Jimmy McArthur



Jimmy McArthur wrote:
> Marton - thanks for the feedback!
>
>> Sounds great, as we like to make this speaker tool available for user 
>> group leaders as a part of user group tools, can we design an API 
>> that helps to consume the speaker data from the openstack.org 
>> <http://openstack.org> website?
> Great suggestion on the API. I'll add that to the list for a Phase II.
>>
>> As a practicing user group leader, it is very important for us to 
>> make that list filterable by region / country. I think it is much 
>> easier to connect local regions first than expect someone from Asia 
>> or US to travel to EU. 
> Yes, this will be built into the first rev.
>> But in a future milestone we should implement a "road trip" feature, 
>> if a speaker is going to a trip, he have a good chance to visit local 
>> user groups.
> Solid idea. We've thought about tying the page into 
> openstack.org/events. This might be a nice add-on that feature.
>>
>>   Marton
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:19 PM Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org 
>> <mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Forgot to add... if you all want to follow along on progress on
>>     the public repo:
>>     https://github.com/OpenStackweb/openstack-org/commit/65738783ee457c2f36728ecc2c9fedb0cc418107
>>
>>     Thanks again!
>>
>>     Jimmy
>>
>>
>>     Jimmy McArthur wrote:
>>>     Hi all -
>>>
>>>     I've recently been hired to work with the Foundation to support
>>>     the OpenStack web properties. Previously, I was a project lead
>>>     at Tipit, and was supporting the Foundation in a similar
>>>     capacity. I'm very familiar with the speaker submission process
>>>     for the Summit, from start to finish, having worked directly
>>>     with Todd Morey and the rest of the Foundation crew for the last
>>>     few summits. I would love to leverage that work and the data
>>>     we've already collected to help build a speakers bureau for the
>>>     community.
>>>
>>>     I'll summarize below some of the requirements I've gathered from
>>>     reviewing all the outstanding requests. Below that, I'll add a
>>>     few comments about the general development that has already begun.
>>>
>>>     Information that we currently have in Speaker Profile
>>>     - Date Joined
>>>     - Country / City of origin
>>>     - Funded travel
>>>     - Registered for upcoming Summit
>>>     - Past OpenStack Summit presentations / related material
>>>     - Bio
>>>     - Affiliations / Job history
>>>     - Opt-In to Speakers Bureau
>>>
>>>     Community Requests for additional information
>>>     - Areas of expertise*
>>>     - Prior speaking topics*
>>>     - Links to previous presentations / event names*
>>>     - Is the speaker willing to travel? To which regions / countries?*
>>>     - In which languages is the speaker fluent?*
>>>     - Professional references
>>>     - Sponsorship opportunities (travel, food/drink)
>>>     - Dates of availability / unavailability
>>>
>>>     Contact form*
>>>     - Name of organizer
>>>     - Email of organizer
>>>     - Event name
>>>     - Format / length
>>>     - Expected attendance
>>>     - Date(s) of event
>>>     - Location
>>>     - Topic(s)
>>>     - General Request
>>>
>>>     Add option to Sort / Search
>>>     - Name
>>>     - Company
>>>     - Region, country, city where the speaker lives/works
>>>     - Areas of expertise
>>>
>>>     As you can see from the first list, the Foundation already
>>>     collects a fair amount of information when we do our Call for
>>>     Speakers ahead of each summit. Earlier this month, we began work
>>>     on the speaker’s bureau, leveraging that information. I suggest
>>>     we focus on getting a minimum viable product out as soon as
>>>     possible, with the data that we've already collected.
>>>
>>>     I've put an asterisk next to the items that are easy adds. We
>>>     could aim to get as much of that into a Phase I as possible.
>>>     There are some more complex pieces (Professional references,
>>>     Dates of availability / unavailability) that have potential
>>>     privacy concerns or could complicate things. Additionally, I
>>>     think we should keep the form as short and simple as possible,
>>>     so speakers fill it out. IMO we should be cautious about
>>>     overreaching when asking for data and ensure it's easy for
>>>     people to manage.
>>>
>>>     My suggestion is to get some of these more simple items out the
>>>     door so we at least have a searchable list. From there, we can
>>>     solicit feedback and iterate.
>>>
>>>     Please let me know your thoughts and I look forward to working
>>>     with everyone!
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Jimmy McArthur
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