[openstack-community] OpenStack Birthday Feedback
Hi everyone, For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc. Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel? We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting? Cheers, Kendall PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program <https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program>
Kendall, I think the annual celebration is a great tradition and worth keeping. I wonder though if we can support user groups without having to give $500 per group. The more established groups can probably support the celebration via vendor sponsorship with less established groups using Foundation funds. Also, $500 may be more than is needed for groups with smaller attendance. Maybe we can give groups the option of accepting smaller funds or no funds for their parties? What may be more helpful actually would be smaller swag like laptop stickers for each anniversary. Another way that the Foundation may be able to help is to provide a video that celebrates an anniversary with perhaps a message from someone from the board and/or testimonies from community members. Thank you. -- Kenneth Hui 347.997.0935 kenhuinyc@gmail.com <kkanghui@gmail.com> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc.
Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel?
We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting?
Cheers, Kendall
PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program
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I agree with Kenneth’s comments in their entiret( +1 on video, +11 on stickers). Here at the OpenStack PDX user group, we’re lucky enough to have great sponsor support and therefore would be happy to see that $$ redirected to some groups who might need a little additional help. Regards, Richard
On May 16, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Kenneth Hui <kenhuinyc@gmail.com> wrote:
Kendall,
I think the annual celebration is a great tradition and worth keeping. I wonder though if we can support user groups without having to give $500 per group. The more established groups can probably support the celebration via vendor sponsorship with less established groups using Foundation funds. Also, $500 may be more than is needed for groups with smaller attendance. Maybe we can give groups the option of accepting smaller funds or no funds for their parties?
What may be more helpful actually would be smaller swag like laptop stickers for each anniversary. Another way that the Foundation may be able to help is to provide a video that celebrates an anniversary with perhaps a message from someone from the board and/or testimonies from community members.
Thank you.
-- Kenneth Hui
347.997.0935 kenhuinyc@gmail.com <mailto:kkanghui@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org <mailto:kendall@openstack.org>> wrote: Hi everyone,
For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc.
Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel?
We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting?
Cheers, Kendall
PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program <https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program> _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org <mailto:Community@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community <http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community>
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Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. :) Of course, this should be continued. This is probably the very few chances that grassroots interactions still happen with OpenStack community, as it stands now. In our part of the world (I coordinate for PH and attend ASEAN/APAC events whenever I can), adoption momentum and awareness is very, very difficult to build. Maturity of market is probably one aspect. Resources is another. 1) Those who can support directly are vendors (appliances / etc) that cater to mostly a handful of capable enterprises some of whom are still struggling with Diablo/Essex/Folsom due to 'certified' infra hw as provided by some vendors; 2) With other behemoths throwing money and attention and people on a more regular basis, this 1x a year is surely the most minimal that OpenStack community can have globally. E.g. monthly or bi-monthly lunch&learn by AWS happens in hotels attended by 80-120 people. Not trying to compete, but surely can't just let them have all the attention. 3) Success stories always begins with the innovators, then other adopter levels come in. Bridging the chasm in our region needs way more support. Chick'n-Egg, as always. No Market, No Major Support. No Major Support, No Market. In short, go go go. But smarter, less rigid, more supportive, more support (although cash helps a lot, ship official materials (not just swags but probably reference materials, I know --- internet --- but the best people who can trigger faster awareness still reads them books =D) we can distribute not just on parties but regularly in other related events/workshops (python, API integration, Hybrid Cloud events, etc) ... I went to a recent cloud expo in Asia. I was the only one speaking of OpenStack directly in a sea of talk about containers and AWS and hybrid and abstracted OpenStack service providers and etc etc etc... Not one word of OpenStack... Suddenly missed attending OpenStack summits then... Cheers, Dean Marc On mobile >>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc.
Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel?
We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting?
Cheers, Kendall
PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program
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Hello all, We have thought of the past birthday celebrations as another meetup with a special purpose, that is sponsored by the Foundation (with cake :)) instead of our regular sponsors. If the funds used for this can be better utilised with speaker travel sponsorships, I would be all for that. regards, Kavit Kavit Munshi Aptira - Making OpenStack Great Again! Australia Toll Free: 1800 APTIRA General Enquiries: +61 2 8030 2333 Direct/Mobile: +91 971 292 9850 Website: aptira.com <http://www.aptira.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/Aptira/> <https://twitter.com/Aptira> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aptira> <https://plus.google.com/b/105803346768664588403/+Aptira/posts> On 16 May 2016 at 20:35, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc.
Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel?
We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting?
Cheers, Kendall
PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program
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They've always been a bit of a dud event here. I think because culturally we are cynics and I've always thought having a birthday party for software is up there with having one for your cat. Speaker travel is not ideal because so many of the chatterboxes in OpenStack work for multinationals and possibly don’t need it. Reversing that to get more people TO speakers would be better. (ie use the money for more summit travel support) I agree that many new meetup groups can use a monetary kick along until their sponsors pick up the ball. Perhaps let's be creative. Put the $ can go towards something that incentivises developing and emerging economies participation in OpenStack. What about an annual birthday $500 scholarship/prize to folks that writes/creates/proposes something awesome? Cheers Tristan *From:* Kavit Munshi [mailto:kavit@aptira.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:50 PM *To:* Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> *Cc:* Community@lists.openstack.org *Subject:* Re: [openstack-community] OpenStack Birthday Feedback Hello all, We have thought of the past birthday celebrations as another meetup with a special purpose, that is sponsored by the Foundation (with cake :)) instead of our regular sponsors. If the funds used for this can be better utilised with speaker travel sponsorships, I would be all for that. regards, Kavit Kavit Munshi *Aptira - Making OpenStack Great Again!* Australia Toll Free: 1800 APTIRA General Enquiries: +61 2 8030 2333 Direct/Mobile: +91 971 292 9850 Website: aptira.com <http://www.aptira.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/Aptira/> <https://twitter.com/Aptira> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aptira> <https://plus.google.com/b/105803346768664588403/+Aptira/posts> On 16 May 2016 at 20:35, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> wrote: Hi everyone, For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc. Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel? We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting? Cheers, Kendall PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
Hi all, This is Vietnam OpenStack user group, and we have some feedback in annually OpenStack birthday. On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Kendall Waters <kendall@openstack.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
For the past few years, the Foundation has contributed funding & graphics for "birthday parties" organized by official user groups around the world. It's something we have celebrated each year in July, and in 2015 we hit a pretty big milestone with the 5th birthday. We typically create and distribute graphics and a presentation, help promote the events and give qualifying groups $500 USD to supplement costs for food / space / etc.
Since we passed the 5-year milestone, we wanted to start a discussion with user group leaders and the community to see how much value you find in the birthday parties. Are they an important tradition for your local community members, or should we redirect funding and efforts to other user group activities, such as sponsoring speaker travel?
Last year we held the birthday party in Vietnam 2 times (yes, 2 times). The first birthday event was held with ~120 attenders [1] and the second one (with cake [3] :)) was smaller with ~20 attenders [2]. We considered the birthday party as the event for widely broadcast of OpenStack through each years. And for that reason, beside the officially slide deck and birthday graphics, we think the swag kits or some videos of OpenStack birthday parties all over the world are more helpful. The funding is more than needed, but for some approved user groups (not yet official) or some groups at small country (like ASEAN), I think this funding is still needed for them, but smaller funds. [1]. https://www.flickr.com/photos/133785583@N03/19465641241/in/pool-1574695@N22/ [2]. https://www.flickr.com/photos/133785583@N03/19273758430/in/pool-1574695@N22/ [3]. https://www.flickr.com/photos/133785583@N03/19465118091/in/pool-1574695@N22/
We would love your feedback - are the OpenStack birthdays something that you would like the Foundation to continue supporting?
+1, this should be a great tradition and we should keep this party event annually. Cheers, Hieu LE.
Cheers, Kendall
PS - User group leaders should also have received communication from your local Ambassador directly about the availability of funding for special activities. If you haven't seen that yet, contact your Ambassador: https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program
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Hi everyone, Thank you for all the feedback! After reviewing the feedback, we have decided to move forward with the global user group birthday parties this year. If you are a user group leader, please make sure your profile at groups.openstack.org <http://groups.openstack.org/> is updated and keep an eye out for an email from our team in the upcoming week as we share more details about the official graphics, funding from the Foundation and information on how to participate. Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall@openstack.org
participants (7)
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Co, Dean Marc
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Hieu LE
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Kavit Munshi
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Kendall Waters
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Kenneth Hui
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Richard Raseley
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Tristan Goode