{"id":4898,"date":"2013-08-19T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2013-08-28T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:55:53","slug":"ambassador-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/ambassador-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the OpenStack Ambassador Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;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.<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"magicdomid388\"><b>Why we&#8217;re doing this<\/b><\/h3>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In addition, the Foundation has become aware that there&#8217;s a need to improve the relationship between user groups and itself &#8211; allowing everyone to feel like they&#8217;re part of a globally connected community.\u00a0For example, many of you who&#8217;ve been to user group meetups have probably heard feedback from people trying to deploy OpenStack &#8211; it would be excellent to aggregate this feedback from every group to help make our software and community better.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid393\">\n<h3 id=\"magicdomid394\"><b>How will this work?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<div id=\"magicdomid395\">We aim to select &#8211; initially &#8211; a small number of<i> OpenStack Ambassadors<\/i>, asking volunteers who are already respected members of our communities to be the primary point of contact in a particular region.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid396\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid397\">What will the ambassadors do?<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid398\">\n<ul>\n<li>Act as a liason between user groups, the Foundation, and the general community, for example:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"magicdomid399\">\n<ul>\n<li>helping to solicit feedback on OpenStack and aggregate it to the global level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"magicdomid400\">\n<ul>\n<li>promoting key messages into the user communities (eg &#8220;ask questions on ask.openstack.org!&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"magicdomid401\">\n<ul>\n<li>finding people to help localise content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"magicdomid400\">\n<ul>\n<li>helping onboard new users and contributors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"magicdomid402\">\n<ul>\n<li>Assist in user group best practice &#8211; from nurturing new groups to cementing the quality of existing ones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid403\">\n<ul>\n<li>Help people find the &#8216;right people&#8217; to talk to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid403\">\n<ul>\n<li>Represent the community via speaking and visibility opportunities with the official title<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid404\">\n<ul>\n<li>Report on the activities in their region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid405\">\n<ul>\n<li>Be a good leader, wranging activity from others and mobilising the global OpenStack community!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"magicdomid407\"><b>Who will the Ambassadors be?<\/b><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid410\">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.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid408\">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.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid409\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid412\">To that end, we intend to ask that potential ambassadors provide some information about themselves, namely:<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid413\">\n<ul>\n<li>Why are you applying to become an OpenStack Ambassador?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid414\">\n<ul>\n<li>How have you participated in the OpenStack Community to date?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid415\">\n<ul>\n<li>What ideas do you have for your community, that you wish you had time or resources to implement?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid416\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid417\">A small number of ambassadors will then be selected based on a set of criteria:<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid418\">\n<ul>\n<li>Community participation track record<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Geographical location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Potential impact of selection on community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"lead\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your feedback would be excellent! Please leave a reply below. Also: for more specifics on the program, and information about becoming an ambassador, <a title=\"Ambassador Program \u2013 Specifics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/ambassador-program-specifics\/\">see the next post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;re doing this OpenStack is one of the fastest-growing open source projects and communities in history. We are fortunate to have&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/ambassador-program\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Introducing the OpenStack Ambassador Program\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}