[openstack-community] Introducing the OpenStack Ambassador Program
(This just went up at: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/ambassador-program/)
I'm excited to start the discussion on the formation of an OpenStack Ambassador Program, which aims to create a framework of community leaders to sustainably expand the reach of OpenStack around the world.
*Why we're doing this*
OpenStack is one of the fastest-growing open source projects and communities in history. We are fortunate to have more than fifty user groups globally and many passionate community members who are already making a big impact. We would like to recognize and further empower these community members to achieve the OpenStack mission, as well as provide more structure and resources to the growing community and user groups. In addition, the Foundation has become aware that there's a need to improve the relationship between user groups and itself -- allowing everyone to feel like they're part of a globally connected community. For example, many of you who've been to user group meetups have probably heard feedback from people trying to deploy OpenStack -- it would be excellent to aggregate this feedback from every group to help make our software and community better.
*How will this work? *
We aim to select -- initially -- a small number of/OpenStack Ambassadors/, asking volunteers who are already respected members of our communities to be the primary point of contact in a particular region. What will the ambassadors do?
* Act as a liason between user groups, the Foundation, and the general community, for example:
* helping to solicit feedback on OpenStack and aggregate it to the global level
* promoting key messages into the user communities (eg "ask questions on ask.openstack.org!")
* finding people to help localise content
* helping onboard new users and contributors
* Assist in user group best practice -- from nurturing new groups to cementing the quality of existing ones
* Help people find the 'right people' to talk to
* Represent the community via speaking and visibility opportunities with the official title
* Report on the activities in their region
* Be a good leader, wranging activity from others and mobilising the global OpenStack community!
*Who will the Ambassadors be?*
The title is designed to recognise those who are already good leaders with a proven track record in the community. With the title, new users, contributors and community members should easily be able to recognize their Ambassador as a go-to resource. While the role provides inherent credibility, it also comes with accountability, meaning decisions and actions made by the Ambassador should benefit the whole community, not just one person or company. We believe that the Ambassadors will already be active participants in our community. Think about those people who are already working across multiple user groups, submitting OpenStack mini-events to related conferences, helping onboard new users and contributors, arranging hackfests or just generally going above and beyond in the name of making Openstack great. To that end, we intend to ask that potential ambassadors provide some information about themselves, namely:
* Why are you applying to become an OpenStack Ambassador?
* How have you participated in the OpenStack Community to date?
* What ideas do you have for your community, that you wish you had time or resources to implement?
A small number of ambassadors will then be selected based on a set of criteria:
* Community participation track record
* Geographical location
* Potential impact of selection on community
Your feedback would be excellent! Please leave a reply below. Also: for more specifics on the program, and information about becoming an ambassador, stay tuned for the next post.
Hi Tom, How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Regards, Bruce Lok Engineer | Technology Centre Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co. Ltd. Tel: 3166-3728 Fax: 3027-0099
From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom@openstack.org] Sent: Tuesday, 20 August, 2013 08:06 To: community@lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-community] Introducing the OpenStack Ambassador Program
(This just went up at: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/08/ambassador-program/)
I'm excited to start the discussion on the formation of an OpenStack Ambassador Program, which aims to create a framework of community leaders to sustainably expand the reach of OpenStack around the world. Why we're doing this OpenStack is one of the fastest-growing open source projects and communities in history. We are fortunate to have more than fifty user groups globally and many passionate community members who are already making a big impact. We would like to recognize and further empower these community members to achieve the OpenStack mission, as well as provide more structure and resources to the growing community and user groups. In addition, the Foundation has become aware that there's a need to improve the relationship between user groups and itself - allowing everyone to feel like they're part of a globally connected community. For example, many of you who've been to user group meetups have probably heard feedback from people trying to deploy OpenStack - it would be excellent to aggregate this feedback from every group to help make our software and community better. How will this work? We aim to select - initially - a small number of OpenStack Ambassadors, asking volunteers who are already respected members of our communities to be the primary point of contact in a particular region. What will the ambassadors do?
* Act as a liason between user groups, the Foundation, and the general community, for example:
* helping to solicit feedback on OpenStack and aggregate it to the global level
* promoting key messages into the user communities (eg "ask questions on ask.openstack.org!")
* finding people to help localise content
* helping onboard new users and contributors
* Assist in user group best practice - from nurturing new groups to cementing the quality of existing ones
* Help people find the 'right people' to talk to
* Represent the community via speaking and visibility opportunities with the official title
* Report on the activities in their region
* Be a good leader, wranging activity from others and mobilising the global OpenStack community!
Who will the Ambassadors be? The title is designed to recognise those who are already good leaders with a proven track record in the community. With the title, new users, contributors and community members should easily be able to recognize their Ambassador as a go-to resource. While the role provides inherent credibility, it also comes with accountability, meaning decisions and actions made by the Ambassador should benefit the whole community, not just one person or company. We believe that the Ambassadors will already be active participants in our community. Think about those people who are already working across multiple user groups, submitting OpenStack mini-events to related conferences, helping onboard new users and contributors, arranging hackfests or just generally going above and beyond in the name of making Openstack great. To that end, we intend to ask that potential ambassadors provide some information about themselves, namely:
* Why are you applying to become an OpenStack Ambassador?
* How have you participated in the OpenStack Community to date?
* What ideas do you have for your community, that you wish you had time or resources to implement? A small number of ambassadors will then be selected based on a set of criteria:
* Community participation track record
* Geographical location
* Potential impact of selection on community
Your feedback would be excellent! Please leave a reply below. Also: for more specifics on the program, and information about becoming an ambassador, stay tuned for the next post.
On 08/20/2013 12:14 AM, Bruce Lok wrote:
How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Good question Bruce: the answer is not set in stone. Although Tom and I have been thinking about the answer I think it would be good to hear your opinions.
How many do you think there should be? And how would you define a 'region'?
/stef
Hi
My experience with community development..usually student become student ambassador.
And i think the liason between user group.is stefano.
And user group can.work.more.widely with vendors, users and also.university.
Usually community manager work.splitly between student ambasador and user group.leaders.
In several case student ambasador have different work with user group.toprotect company interest esp to less streng user group in community. But openstack.is foundation. So we can find another model.
In my mind this ambasador will work like community manager .. in several case the ambasador usually champion from openstack.
In my java community. Java champion (like me) or ace director program (me also) selected to do roadshow across country work with user group
My question is the ambasador also the.openstack champion or just a junior that have engagement to bring his friend to community
Frans On Aug 20, 2013 11:23 PM, "Stefano Maffulli" stefano@openstack.org wrote:
On 08/20/2013 12:14 AM, Bruce Lok wrote:
How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Good question Bruce: the answer is not set in stone. Although Tom and I have been thinking about the answer I think it would be good to hear your opinions.
How many do you think there should be? And how would you define a 'region'?
/stef
-- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org
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I'm happy to be a point person for East Africa - to the degree that it's helpful :-)
Cheers, Adam
-- Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-io Musings: https://twitter.com/varud About Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Frans Thamura frans@meruvian.org wrote:
Hi
My experience with community development..usually student become student ambassador.
And i think the liason between user group.is stefano.
And user group can.work.more.widely with vendors, users and also.university.
Usually community manager work.splitly between student ambasador and user group.leaders.
In several case student ambasador have different work with user group.toprotect company interest esp to less streng user group in community. But openstack.is foundation. So we can find another model.
In my mind this ambasador will work like community manager .. in several case the ambasador usually champion from openstack.
In my java community. Java champion (like me) or ace director program (me also) selected to do roadshow across country work with user group
My question is the ambasador also the.openstack champion or just a junior that have engagement to bring his friend to community
Frans On Aug 20, 2013 11:23 PM, "Stefano Maffulli" stefano@openstack.org wrote:
On 08/20/2013 12:14 AM, Bruce Lok wrote:
How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Good question Bruce: the answer is not set in stone. Although Tom and I have been thinking about the answer I think it would be good to hear your opinions.
How many do you think there should be? And how would you define a 'region'?
/stef
-- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org
Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
I like to help get your and other Africa user groups going. We have been working on user group how to structure and community based training. Are you interested in collaborating in this?
~sean
On Aug 20, 2013, at 23:29, "Adam Nelson" <adam@varud.commailto:adam@varud.com> wrote:
I'm happy to be a point person for East Africa - to the degree that it's helpful :-)
Cheers, Adam
-- Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-io Musings: https://twitter.com/varud About Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Frans Thamura <frans@meruvian.orgmailto:frans@meruvian.org> wrote:
Hi
My experience with community development..usually student become student ambassador.
And i think the liason between user group.ishttp://group.is stefano.
And user group can.work.more.widely with vendors, users and also.university.
Usually community manager work.splitly between student ambasador and user group.leaders.
In several case student ambasador have different work with user group.tohttp://group.to protect company interest esp to less streng user group in community. But openstack.ishttp://openstack.is foundation. So we can find another model.
In my mind this ambasador will work like community manager .. in several case the ambasador usually champion from openstack.
In my java community. Java champion (like me) or ace director program (me also) selected to do roadshow across country work with user group
My question is the ambasador also the.openstack champion or just a junior that have engagement to bring his friend to community
Frans
On Aug 20, 2013 11:23 PM, "Stefano Maffulli" <stefano@openstack.orgmailto:stefano@openstack.org> wrote: On 08/20/2013 12:14 AM, Bruce Lok wrote:
How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Good question Bruce: the answer is not set in stone. Although Tom and I have been thinking about the answer I think it would be good to hear your opinions.
How many do you think there should be? And how would you define a 'region'?
/stef
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Sean,
I'd be happy to collaborate on helping with developing structure and training for the meetups to help get African user groups going. Have anything specific in mind?
Cheers, Adam
-- Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud https://twitter.com/varud About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Sean Roberts seanrob@yahoo-inc.com wrote:
I like to help get your and other Africa user groups going. We have been working on user group how to structure and community based training. Are you interested in collaborating in this?
~sean
On Aug 20, 2013, at 23:29, "Adam Nelson" adam@varud.com wrote:
I'm happy to be a point person for East Africa - to the degree that it's helpful :-)
Cheers, Adam
-- Kili.io - OpenStack for Africa: https://angel.co/kili-io Musings: https://twitter.com/varud About Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Frans Thamura frans@meruvian.org wrote:
Hi
My experience with community development..usually student become student ambassador.
And i think the liason between user group.is stefano.
And user group can.work.more.widely with vendors, users and also.university.
Usually community manager work.splitly between student ambasador and user group.leaders.
In several case student ambasador have different work with user group.toprotect company interest esp to less streng user group in community. But openstack.is foundation. So we can find another model.
In my mind this ambasador will work like community manager .. in several case the ambasador usually champion from openstack.
In my java community. Java champion (like me) or ace director program (me also) selected to do roadshow across country work with user group
My question is the ambasador also the.openstack champion or just a junior that have engagement to bring his friend to community
Frans On Aug 20, 2013 11:23 PM, "Stefano Maffulli" stefano@openstack.org wrote:
On 08/20/2013 12:14 AM, Bruce Lok wrote:
How many ambassadors will be selected in one region? (eg: Hong Kong)
Good question Bruce: the answer is not set in stone. Although Tom and I have been thinking about the answer I think it would be good to hear your opinions.
How many do you think there should be? And how would you define a 'region'?
/stef
-- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org
Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
Community mailing list Community@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
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participants (6)
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Adam Nelson
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Bruce Lok
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Frans Thamura
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Sean Roberts
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Stefano Maffulli
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Tom Fifield