The CDF Community Ambassador Program is a network of 51+ passionate community leaders, CD industry representatives, thought leaders, and meetup super organizers. These volunteers are committed to empowering their local communities with skills, education and support in CD & DevOps. These individuals include: industry influencers, enterprise practitioners, consultants, bloggers, analysts, advocates, community builders, local event organizers and evangelists.
CDF Community Ambassadors are individuals who are passionate about the Continuous Delivery Foundation technology and projects, recognized for their expertise in, and willingness to help others learn about the framework and community.
The CDF Community Ambassador program aims to and evangelize the CDF by advocating the 9 strategic goals established by the governing board in 2019. Successful ambassadors are individuals that are interested & already help coordinate local and regional meetups, create educational content such as blogs, whitepapers, case studies, or training. The CDF Community Ambassador program exists to empower community members with tools and resources needed to:
The CD Foundation Community Ambassador’s play a crucial role in supporting, growing and engaging the developer community with a variety of resources. In order for the CD Foundation to offer free educational content, speaking or training opportunities, and facilitate engagement we need global volunteers to help us coordinate and execute on our behalf. The CD Foundation Community Ambassador minimum responsibilities include at least 1 of the following activities:
All new CD Foundation Community Ambassadors will have a provisional designation for 2 quarters. Upon successful completion of the 2 quarters, ambassadorship extends to 4 quarters. Then, ambassador roles are renewed yearly based on outcomes.
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All event participants are expected to behave in accordance with professional standards, with both this Code of Conduct as well as their respective employer’s policies governing appropriate workplace behavior and applicable laws.
Harassment will not be tolerated in any form, including, but not limited to, harassment based on gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion or any other status protected by laws in which the conference or program is being held. Harassment includes the use of abusive, offensive or degrading language, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors. Any report of harassment at one of our events will be addressed immediately. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Anyone who witnesses or is subjected to unacceptable behavior should notify a program or conference organizer at once.
Individuals who participate (or plan to participate) in Linux Foundation programs and events should conduct themselves at all times in a manner that comports with both the letter and spirit of this policy prohibiting harassment and abusive behavior, whether before, during or after the event. This includes statements made in social media postings, online publications, text messages, and all other forms of electronic communication.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the program or conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate depending on the circumstances, ranging from issuance of a warning to the offending individual to expulsion from the conference with no refund. The Linux Foundation reserves the right to exclude any participant found to be engaging in harassing behavior from participating in any further Linux Foundation programs, events, training or other activities.
If a participant (or individual wishing to participate in a Linux Foundation event), through postings on social media or other online publications or another form of electronic communication, engages in conduct that violates this policy, whether before, during or after a Linux Foundation event, the Linux Foundation may take appropriate corrective action, which could include imposing a temporary or permanent ban on an individual’s participation in future Linux Foundation programs and events.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns relating to harassment, please contact a member of the program or conference staff immediately. Please contact Jacqueline Salinas, Director of Ecosystem & Community, at jsalinas@cd.foundation.
Our staff has taken incident response training and responds to harassment reports quickly and thoroughly. As referenced above, if a participant engages in harassing behavior, the program and conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, ranging from issuance of a warning to the offending individual to expulsion from the program or conference with no refund, depending on the circumstances. The Linux Foundation reserves the right to exclude any participant found to be engaging in harassing behavior from participating in any further Linux Foundation programs, events, training or other activities.
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) serves as the vendor-neutral home of many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). It fosters collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users and companies to further CI/CD best practices and industry specifications. Its mission is to grow and sustain projects that are part of the broad and expanding continuous delivery ecosystem. With respect to values and principles driving the Foundation, the Foundation:
The CDF will evangelize CI/CD methodologies, define/document best practices, and create training materials to enable software development teams around the world to deliver code changes faster and more reliably. The CDF will also provide software development teams with an OSS-based, open development model.
Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CD Foundation) serves as the vendor-neutral home of many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery, including Jenkins and Jenkins X, as well as fosters collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors to further continuous delivery best practices. CD Foundation is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CD Foundation, please visit https://cd.foundation. Copyright © 2020 The Linux Foundation®. All rights reserved. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.