Hello Pierre. On 02/18/2016 06:32 PM, Pierre Freund wrote:
"We are OpenStack", but you know what, I don't really feel to be part of this "We". And I think I'm not the only ops folks feeling this.
I think a lot of people feel like you.
At the last summit, I went to the ambassador's session to speak about this. My point was that people spending time for the community should have an easier access to the summit by giving them "Active Community Contributors" Pass. The only answer I had was "If you can't afford the ticket, use the travel program".
The Osops project should make it easier for ops to receive a summit ticket. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Osops
Then, I went to the "feedback session" of the summit, and said that I was really involved in OpenStack, and I deserved an "Active Ops Contributor" badge. Everybody agreed. The ATC program is B.R.O.K.E.N.
Confirmed.
My only solution? Make a bullshit commit, correct something in the docs, correct a typo in a comment… not very interesting. Here is one of my $1200 single character commit: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/20076/ . And this makes me an "Active Contributor" for two summits??
Every commit is important, documentation commits are important. A commit has not to be interessting. Please do not grade down simple commits. Every single commit improves the overall quality of OpenStack.
And what about people helping local user groups?
They should be honrored and supported. It is a shame that the foundation has more than 20 million US Dollars for 2016 and a single user group (independent of there size) only receives 500 US Dollars / year to support celebration activities. Ambassadors spend a lot of time, they have to travel, the receive nothing. Ambassadors are not hired by the foundation, we are even not allowed to use official @openstack.org mail addresses. User group organizers are not supported, ... Christian.