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I am leaning towards a mail alias, regional or global doesn't bother me.

I would also love to hear from any new user groups what their issues are
and what they would like help with. We have a fairly active group in India
and can share decks and help with talks (via google hangout) etc.

Maybe having some kind of an ambassador/user group manager monthly google
hangout might help focus efforts

Regards,

Kavit

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Kavit Munshi
Chief Technical Officer
EVP Aptira India
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Fifield [mailto:tom at openstack.org]
Sent: 19 November 2013 05:47
To: community at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [openstack-community] [Ambassador] Continuing our discussion
on-list

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