Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone

<< Go back
Ambassador Community Report
Community Building

OpenStack Ambassadors connect the user groups to the Foundation. They help initialize the groups and guide them to grow. Ambassadors can give feedback about all the OpenStack community.Ambassadors launch some actions during the last release cycle:
- OpenStack community report
- What is the size of the community
- Global and regional trends
- Introduce new groups, leaders
- Updates on speaker bureau
- Recommended practices for starting and running communities
- Status update on official groups 
- Process
- Updates on user groups since Tokyo
- Groups portal
- Overview
- Results
- Welcome pack and OpenStack shop
- Q&A

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!


What can I expect to learn?

They expect the learn the status of the groups on the world, latest trends on the user groups and community status.

Tuesday, April 26, 3:40pm-4:20pm (8:40pm - 9:20pm UTC)
Austin Convention Center - Level 4 - MR 12 A/B
View video
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community Ambassadors
Marton Kiss
GM of Europe, Aptira
OpenStack Ambassador, founder of Hungarian OpenStack user group, co-organizer of OpenStack CEE Day event and active contributor of multiple OpenStack projects. Marton have a background in the telecommunication sector, he was a CTO for a Telenor owned company and managed the operation and development areas in Central Europe and Asia. Actually he is working at Aptira as a GM for the EU region. FULL PROFILE
Tom Fifield
Open Infrastructure Foundation
Since working on the infrastructure for flagship particle physics experiments, Tom has been passionate about large-scale distributed systems. He has worked alongside collaborators from dozens of countries to facilitate distributed computing design, reliable operations in minimal staff environments and interoperability between different technologies. After leading teams to deliver significant... FULL PROFILE
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
Christian Berendt
OSISM GmbH
Enjoys writing articles in German magazines. Has previously given frequent presentations at OpenStack Summits. Founder of 23 Technologies and OSISM. Co-founder of the Sovereign Cloud Stack project. Would like open infrastructure to be used everywhere in Germany. Collaboration on OpenStack for over 10 years. And still going. Supports many OpenStack projects in Germany as Principal... FULL PROFILE
Kavit Munshi
Aptira
Kavit is the CTO of Aptira, heads Aptira's Indian operations and has 15 years of experience in designing and deploying Enterprise and Telco solutions.   He is also the founder of the Indian OpenStack User Group and the OpenStack Ambassador for the region. Kavit is also an Individual Director member of the OpenStack Board of Directors.   Kavit has been a driving force behind the... FULL PROFILE
Kenneth Hui
Technical Marketing Engineer
Ken is a Technology Marketing Engineer and Cloud Solutions Architect who is passionate about helping customers with building great solutions leveraging technologies such as VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure and containers. He lives in New York City where he can indulge in his love of great food from all around the world. You can follow Ken on Twitter @kenhuiny. 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
Sean Roberts
Technology Leader
“I enjoy working with all the different people involved with OpenStack. There is constant state of optimism and a drive to improve. If I had to pick one thing that makes me feel renewed and happy about my work, it would be helping people to improve themselves. I always am humbled when I can help someone find a new job or gain a new skill. This is what keeps me going.” FULL PROFILE
Lu Ye
Qunar
OpenStack Ambassador. Devops Engineer @Qunar. Experienced in operating and managing OpenStack cloud, including Qunar OpenStack Cloud in 7 regions. Started constructing and using kubernetes Cloud since 2015. FULL PROFILE
Jaesuk Ahn
SK Telecom
Jaesuk Ahn have received the Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Upon the graduation, he joined Korea Telecom, and led a development team to develop openstack-based cloud platform for KT's private cloud till 2014. He joined a venture company called cloud4u at 2014 working at developing cloud tools to design, orchestrate, monitor systems on cloud environment. He, then, joined at SK... 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