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On 01/15/2013 03:15 PM, Andi_Abes at 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