Sydney
November 6-8, 2017

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Meet with the ambassadors on this session where they will introduce the improvements of the last half year and share their feelings and experience about the community.

If you are a user group organizer you must be there, and feel free to share your thoughts and feelings with us!

OpenStack Ambassadors connect the user groups to the Foundation. They help initialize the groups and guide them to grow.

Ambassadors launch some actions during the last release cycle:
- New ambassadors introduction
- OpenStack community report
- Status update on official groups
- What is the size of the community
- Global and regional trends
- Introduce new groups
- Updates on speaker bureau
- Recommended practices for starting and running communities
- Updates on user groups since Boston
- Groups portal
- Overview
- Results
- Welcome pack
- Q&A

 


What can I expect to learn?

How to improve local OpenStack User Groups and find help with the community.

Wednesday, November 8, 4:30pm-5:10pm (5:30am - 6:10am UTC)
Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre - Level 3 Convention Center - C3.3
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community User 101 Ambassadors
Erwan Gallen
Red Hat, Senior Principal Product Manager
Erwan Gallen est Senior Principal Product Manager pour Red Hat OpenShift et Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. Erwan gère au sein de la Business Unit Hybrid Platforms de Red Hat la stratégie pour l'accélération matérielle de l'intelligence artificielle (IA). Erwan a occupé divers postes, notamment en tant que Release Manager d'un cloud public et CTO d'un groupe de médias en ligne.... FULL PROFILE
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Head of Developer Relations
Lisa-Marie Namphy is one of the OpenStack Ambassadors for the USA and an active member of the OSF Diversity & Inclusion Working Group. Lisa is also a Kubernetes Ambassador. Lisa organizes and runs the SF Bay OpenStack and the Cloud Native Containers User Groups, personally hosting the meetups for the past 9 years. Lisa has been a long time contributor, advocate (and fan) of open source... FULL PROFILE
Ilya Alekseyev
I18n Russian coordinator amp Russian user group leader
- OpenStack I18n Russian coordinator - OpenStack Russian User Group leader - OpenStack Ambassador     FULL PROFILE
Akira Yoshiyama
NEC Corporation
Akira is the maintainer of the web site of Japan OpenStack User Group (http://openstack.jp ). He is leading OpenStack study meetups in Japan since 2012, JOSUG events like OpenStack Advent calendar, translation activities of OpenStack documents into Japanese, and so on. FULL PROFILE
Sonia Ramza
Community Management
Sonia joined the OpenStack Foundation in early 2017, working in the community management division. Her major projects involve overseeing the User Group process and facilitating the ambassador program.  FULL PROFILE
Shilla Saebi
Comcast, Operations Engineer
Shilla Saebi is an Open Source Program Manager who focuses on community and has been with Comcast for almost a decade. She has worked in many diverse roles within the tech industry in positions ranging from operations engineering, system administration, and network operations. Shilla is an open source contributor and actively supports several open source communities such as the Linux... FULL PROFILE
Marcelo Dieder
Devops and IT Security Manager and Openstack Ambassador
  Marcelo Dieder works with Openstack since 2011. He is the OpenStack Ambassador for LATAM, founder of the OpenStack Brazil User Group and Coordinator of the OpenStack Brazil Translation Team (pt_BR). As a Ambassador role, he helped in the growth of the users groups through his organizing of events, lectures, and local surveys to attract new users and contributors to the project. Currently... FULL PROFILE