chore: ambassador program (FAQ)

[Barbanio]

Description

• This document covers the organizational and practical aspects of the AsyncAPI Ambassador Program. (FAQ)

• Once this PR is merged, ambassadors.json will be provided with the list of proposed initial ambassadors that fulfill the requirements.

Related issue(s)
See also #635.

[derberg]

added some comments, looking good so far

[Leamsi9]

The only things that were not totally clear for me from reading this is whether you need to already have made the 4 contributions before becoming an ambassador, or whether a commitment to do so within a year is enough.

Also wasn't very clear whether commenting on the repo in issues like this one counts as contribution? I would suggest yes, as long as the evaluating panel gets a say on whether those engagements are significant enough to count for one of the 4 contributions?

Likewise, when assessing contributions, you specify that talks can be one, and blogs/postings etc another. Not sure if we need to specify this but a question might be, if you give and record a talk in a meetup, and then post the video in a separate forum, does that count as one or two contributions?

[Barbanio]

@Leamsi9 Thanks for your feedback!

1. I always understood that it is applied retroactively, so that person has previously demonstrated commitment to the project. I don't know if I'm wrong, @derberg.

2. It makes sense that overall participation in the project should be considered another contribution toward the Ambassadors program. We need a tool that can quantify this participation objectively and transparently.

3. I understand this as a single contribution. The diffusion of the talk is a consequence of this.

[derberg]

• yes, you first demonstrate contribution and then you become an ambassador, not before
• yes, other contributions like GitHub activity, twitter activity, LinkedIn activity could be counted as contributions, we just do not have a tool yet that can count it. Linux Foundation has one, but they did not give us access yet as they are now in the process of migrating from v1 to v2 and do not onboard new projects until July 2022
• yeah, if the video is a recording of a talk, it is the same as the talk itself, and video is just a proof.

anyway, your question about video made me thing that we should extend description of blog post contribution. In the end not everyone likes to read, some like videos, some podcasts, we should treat these equally and count as contribution. Example is this video from Dale -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni5tCY9r0TY

[Leamsi9]

Re: repo contributions, this looks like a good tool, quick to implement:
https://github.com/X-lab2017/open-digger

It's behind the excellent Open Source Insights report https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-insights-what-we-learned-from-860-million-github-event-logs/

It produces a ranking based on the following weighting:

const ISSUE_COMMENT_WEIGHT = 1; const OPEN_ISSUE_WEIGHT = 2; const OPEN_PULL_WEIGHT = 3; const REVIEW_COMMENT_WEIGHT = 4; const PULL_MERGED_WEIGHT = 2;

[derberg]

@Leamsi9 I'm basically reluctant to build another custom stuff if I know that in a month or two we can get something similar from Linux Founation 😅

[derberg]

@alequetzalli I did my review, I still need to work with @Barbanio on the shape of ambassadors.json file and the initial list of ambassadors, but you could already have a look before we pass it to TSC for voting to accept the program, kindly please 🙏🏼

[derberg]

@Barbanio please adjust values of the packages to match more or less the current state, or just specify that it is approximate value

@alequetzalli pingy pongy

[quetzalliwrites]

This is soooo amazing, @Barbanio! I think the last feedback from @derberg really helped get this ready to go.

I only saw 3 tiny items that I recommended a fix for, but the rest looks great! 😊

[Barbanio]

Thank you for all the feedback. The file has improved a lot with your reviews 🙂

[quetzalliwrites]

🎉🎉🎉

[derberg]

@Barbanio excellent work!!!

Once you are back and you summarize the voting on the program, I guess you can merge 👏🏼

The next thing would be that you check with your shortlist of possible ambassadors if they are interested and then open a PR with the first ambassadors.json file (of course I will help designing it)

[fmvilas]

Great job, @Barbanio 👏 Left some suggestions.

[fmvilas]

🚀

[derberg]

TSC approved the program and costs -> #425

Excellent work @Barbanio 🎉

[Barbanio]

/rtm