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Hi Ambassadors (and interested friends),

It's time to continue our discussions of yore on the mailing list, as 
promised.

Attached is Colin's brainstorming diagram, and below is the text 
mentioned that "Tom has".

One of the first things we need to work out is how we're going to manage 
comms. Suggestions so far have been:
* an ambassador at ...openstack... alias that goes to every ambassador
** This could be implemented using a new mailing list, or perhaps by 
making a queue on the existing support ticket system

* regional aliases (ambassador-{apac, eu, us}@...openstack...), that 
ambassadors in those regions can use in preference to their personal 
email address when listing on websites, and share the load between 
multiple ambassadors

* ...



Regards,


Tom


Problems:
* The lack of a defined communications structure results in a lack of 
information coming from the communities – be it feedback from users, 
requests for assistance or content, promotion of local deployments and 
activities, adoption rates etc

* User Group leaders are not supported to promote the aims of the 
foundation and OpenStack

* Many User Groups are at low levels of maturity, which can result in a 
poor experience for attendees

* There is only a small facility for community leaders to participate 
with their global counterparts


Objectives:
1. Creation of structured communication between the Foundation, global 
OpenStack community and the members and associates of user groups 
worldwide, providing insight into regional activity while spreading key 
messages

2. Increased amount of contributors to activities related to 
localisation, such as translation

3. Increased quality of user groups

4. Increased accessibility of participation in governance activities

5. A gained understanding of user group funding needs, with increased 
ability to provision funds where most impact is seen

6. Increased adoption of OpenStack, and strengthening of the OpenStack brand
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