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On 01/15/2013 03:15 PM, Andi_Abes@Dell.com wrote:

Feedback I’ve gotten from multiple folks is that it would be useful to
make available technical experts on up and coming projects (ceilometer,
heat, new quantum services , cinder etc). While in the past I
coordinated with project PTL’s to locate local experts, it might be more
efficient (and less troubling to PTL’s) to have a community effort
around this. If local presence is less than possible, then various
collaboration tools could work.

This is definitely something we're doing. We have a project at the Foundation to create a 'spaker list' where organisers of events can go and select speakers based on their needs. Basically we're extending the Foundation's Members database to include information about availability to speak at events (with travelling options), topics the speaker is comfortable covering and more.

We're also working on a new tool to collect all the information about user groups around the world, to aggregate data in a single place (groups.openstack.org) about existence of a group in a given geographic area (doh!), expertise, events, material produced, etc. Stay tuned for more. We have started tracking feature requests as blueprints on this launchpad project:

https://launchpad.net/openstack-community

Please add your needs to it.

/stef

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