Hi Rich, This is a great idea and initiative. I am one of the people heavily contributing to the event side for the Apache CloudStack project and also for the increasing the awareness of the project. To be honest, my biggest burden to join more on the AFS side is the lack of time to read through the huge pile of emails going all sides. There are some here, some on planners, some on other threads, For me is impossible to read all of these. Let me know if I can be more helpful at some way for ASF in general.
Best regards, On 13 Jul 2026, at 16:33, Bowen, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: Perhaps the biggest challenge in the ComDev effort has always been finding people to do the work. We tend to be a small group of the same people, all of whom are already overcommitted. We have great ideas and very little followup. Meanwhile, many of our project have people who are the de-facto community organizers/managers for those projects, doing the event work, the new contributor outreach, the promotion of these projects. I have been thinking about how we might draw those people into ComDev, so that we can use that passion and expertise for the entire Foundation. I’d like to identify that person in every project at the ASF, and designate them Project Ambassadors. Bringing together a group of these people to discuss their strategies in their project, share tips, cross promote, and support one another, is a first step here. Having a weekly (bi-weekly?) office hour where these folks can talk about the work they are doing in their project, their challenges and successes, and brainstorm about how they could be more effective with more resources, will help identify the next ComDev members, while also helping them strengthen one another. Hosting an annual ASF Project Ambassadors meetup, either at C/C, or at some other event, would provide opportunities to further amplify their work, and share resources. This would require a modest budget to cover venue, food/bev, swag, and travel. We can also help offer these projects more spotlight by combining our efforts, working with groups like M&P, TAC, and so on, and helping educate younger projects about the services that the ASF offers that they are not taking advantage of. In this work stream, I’m hoping to find some of these people who help us find more of these people. I know some of you are here. Most are not (yet), and we need to find them. I’m also hoping to find people who are interested in coordinating such a group, and figuring out what the budget request should look like for this work, both in the short term, and brainstorming what we might do longer term if/when this takes off. Finally, I’d like to find people who have already been involved in similar work in other organizations who can help us think about this right. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
