[Nominations Open] Top CDF Ambassador Award 2024 🏆

[roxannejoncas]

This issue is to receive nominations for the Top CDF Ambassador Award 2024.

This award recognizes a champion for the continuous delivery space. This individual helps spread awareness of the CDF and its projects. The CDF Ambassador is a part of the active Ambassador cohort and leverages multiple platforms, both online as well as speaking engagements, driving interest and excitement around the ecosystem.

➡️ Nominate someone, by replying to this issue with the following:

• Full name of the person you’re nominating
• Short description of their contributions to the Continuous Delivery Foundation and why they should win.

Nomination Deadline: Sunday, February 19, 2024 at 11:59 PST
Please note: Last year's winner, Saim Safdar, cannot win the award for Top Ambassador again this year.

• CDF Award Guidelines
• 2024 Awards Page (where you can nominate someone for another award)

[LoriLorusso]

I am happy to nominate Anna Daughtry from Ospera. In addtion to her work within her corporate work in the DevOps space, Anna speakes at conferences and I was delighted by her session at the CDF Mini Summit in Spain. She consistently spreads information regarding the CDF and community on her soical properties, she is the chair of the cdCon 24 program commitee and is a great example of what it means to be a CDF Ambassador.

[cnu1812]

I would like to nominate @bradmccoydev for the top ambassador award!

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Safeer C.M. - he has contributed actively during the year to bring new ideas to the ambassador group, collaborated in training material and blog writing.

He has also delivered sessions in the local SRE community to spread awareness about CD Foundation

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Paweł Piwosz (space lift) for his excellent contribution in the Continuous Delivery space as an ambassador, bringing new ideas, spreading awareness about difficult topics like open source licensing in IaC space. He was also nominated for his best podcast series at Devops dozen. We highly regard his contributions.

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Thomas Schuetz (WhizUs) for this work in the K8sGPT, leading the workshops and also spreading the word about CDF through his numerous talks, blogs and being a bridge between CNCF and CDF ambassador. We highly regard the work, knowledge and experience he brings for the ambassadors.

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Muktesh Mishra, he is working in the observability driven development and we had engaging discussions with him on various topics, he is active contributor in CdCon, his talk is one of the selected talks for this years open source summit.

[roxannejoncas]

I would like to nominate Giorgi Keratishvili @Galphaa who was an active member of the cdCon 2024 program committee and volunteered to help with other initiatives over the last year.

[roxannejoncas]

I would like to nominate Paweł Piwosz (space lift) for his excellent contribution in the Continuous Delivery space as an ambassador, bringing new ideas, spreading awareness about difficult topics like open source licensing in IaC space. He was also nominated for his best podcast series at Devops dozen. We highly regard his contributions.

Yes, and he contributed articles to the cd.foundation blog

[roxannejoncas]

I would like to nominate Natale Vinto @blues-man who spoke at CDF events, volunteered for other CDF initiatives, and represents the CDF in his talks outside of CDF events as well as in other ways (like writing about Tekton in the "GitOps Cookbook" he co-authored)

[Galphaa]

I would like to nominate Paweł Piwosz @pawelpiwosz for his contribution and spreading knowladge via his podcast and involvement in community

[Galphaa]

I would like to nominate Garima Bajpai @bajpaigarima1 as she has been active persons contributing in creating learning materials and has been active on conferences by presenting CD foundation

[Galphaa]

I would like to nominate Anna Daughtry @ajdaughe for her contribution in cdCon 2024 Program Chair

[Galphaa]

I would like to say big thank you to Roxanne Joncas @zestyroxy for her proactive position and commitment to grow CDF community

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Moise Kameni for his contributions to the blog writing and contributions towards translation of best practice to French ( inception stages) . He has been advocating for CD foundation in French community and increasing the outreach of the initiatives.

[bajpaigarima1]

I would like to nominate Matheus Paes Pereira for his contribution in Latin America and spreading the word about CDF in Brazil. He has also written blogs and delivered talks, he is active in translating CDF initiative in Portuguese

[roxannejoncas]

Thank you @Galphaa - although I'm not part of the active ambassador cohort and therefore do not qualify :)

[roxannejoncas]

⚠️ Nominations for this award are now closed. Thank you all for submitting your nominations.

Voting will open on February 22.

The CDF Award voting is done by members of the TOC, Ambassadors, and Outreach Committee,who will receive an email with information on how to vote.