 Hello everybody. I'm glad that I am here and thanks to Diane and everyone for attending this talk. This talk is gonna be fun and I guess the word for fun is the very atendo or something like that, but basically It's about the key takeaway from this talk is what Diane was saying and Miguel If you pay the close attention to what Miguel and Diane was saying all along This is what this talk is about. It's basically I am an active in different communities What benefits did I get and what benefits you will get to yourself and you will give to your beers So the key takeaway is about it's about culture and if you listen to my colleague, Dr. Yasmin Earlier one of the problems that we had for adopting cobinates for adopting open shift was awareness was learning and One way to solve this problem is actually communities learning communities Okay, so let's start from the basic who can tell me here. What is the community? Okay, nobody wants to say so let's make it collective. Can you please help me in Spanish? Are you the me? Can everybody please stand up? Because it you have been sitting for a long time I mean shake your hands so that the blood flows check your hands, okay? We want you to wake up. Okay. Now everybody Christians, please stand up Okay, now everybody look around you and see somebody you don't know Okay, find somebody you don't know and tell him your name and why you are here in open shift commons You don't have to check hands. We have something going on Okay, now that's the sense of the community That's what this community is about knowing each other We are all in open shift commons community and we have to learn about each other. Okay, and we have to learn about purposes Okay Check your hands again Do you feel energized? The community gives you energy So everybody learned about everybody else except me. You haven't learned about me. Okay, so who am I? I am Waleed Shari as Diane said I call myself the cloud native janitor The at one time in LinkedIn. I was getting spams by recruiters. So the best thing to do to recruiters is give them in the title They will not basically relate to I Am a red hat accelerator and that's what we are going to talk about later on That's what we're gonna focus on the community of red hat accelerator. It's a very focused community supported by the vendor The local community leader for AWS cloud native and this is one community I bridge to remember what Miguel and Diana was saying about bridging to other communities to other projects So this is the community I bridge to as well as Docker meetup This is another community I bridge to as well as a CNCF chapter Mina, Middle East North Africa and we are going to include Turkey also Okay, so basically I am active in several communities and this is really Is it wasting my time or is it giving me benefits? Also, I am an over shift platform engineer. So these communities help me build my knowledge help me Make my job easier. Help me understand what's going on in the world with open shift I'm advocating for open source. I'm advocating for automation infrastructure as code and civil containers Basically communities and open shift. I'm also have been selected by AWS Numerated by AWS to be AWS container hero. There are 48 heroes container. He is worldwide and they are around 270 AWS heroes worldwide 170 plus I Am a cure it one thing that I'm famous with is to get hub rebels one for the certification of CQA The other one is the certification of the CQS. So I am certified CQA I'm certified CQA ID certified CQS and anything related to open shift to platform and I call myself the cloud native janitor So who inspired me who was the behind my inspiration? So you see here different groups different communities. I started with the egyptian red hat resales He got me into LXC Before docker started and when docker started with someone hikes two minutes demo Basically a big tab docker and we started the docker meetup and then jessie farzella Nana, Liz rice and all the wonderful ladies and all the wonderful gentlemen from the CNCF and from the community And we there's one thing here. These are different groups. We have Carlos Santana who's leading the Knative across the whole and he's leading a book club He and Eric small from sneak and savvy from container solutions. So this community across companies across different activities Okay, and we have board Abdullah from Google and we have many many many communities that we cross. So what's the benefit of these inspirations? First that we I have built my own two communities for example But that doesn't mean that if you want to build a community that you will be successful I have failed in building a community in Libya my native country. There was no participation There was no feedback. So you have two ways to build a community systematic or not systematic the systematic way if you follow a Certain process with certain goals like at car change model. It's not supposed to build a community But if you really follow it, I Can guarantee you that you will have success either this community being in your company being in your local community I think you will have success. What is it based on? First of all awareness You have to be aware what you want to do and what you want to achieve and Find people and spread this awareness through them The moment you find people find the ones that have the stronger desire and focus on these ones be heard these ones Okay, and be inclusive be diverse Don't basically it don't be open-minded The moment you have this small Advocates not just you don't be a leader make others leaders the moment you have these bunch Make sure that you Embour them with knowledge and the moment everybody is involved with knowledge Enable them so the first stage is awareness the second stage is enabling them how you enable them work Subsability give them resources and that's why a community supported by a vendor is a good community because then you would have more resources Then if you have alone or a community supported by other communities The last thing is the reinforcement when you reach something. That's not the end goal. We have to reiterate We have to find something else to do. So what is the something else to do is basically a new technology A new concept and things like that Now when I talk about communities usually they are materialized by meetups But it's not just the meetup. It could be a blog. It could be a video. It could be mix But why do you want to attend? Why do you want to write such things? There these are different reasons why you want to do this if I ask if you when you ask what was the Things that he shared among yourself most likely you hear learning most likely hit collaboration Positive vibes things like that being strong together be learning together teaching each other Collaborating with each other things like that So let's focus on the red hat Accelerator, which is very special niche community. It's basically It's a global So it's not localized to a certain specific geo region. It crosses North America Europe and Middle East and recently Asia Pacific There is an boarding system. It's not for everybody and maximum three people bear company and They focus on people with technical expertise or people with passion Do you need to be passionate to be part of this community? I am not really not there Okay, so what makes a great hat? Red hat a great accelerator first of all passion Openness open-minded and open in yet opinionated Mindset Red hat doesn't want you to be just follower. They want you basically to give feedback Positive feedback, of course, but they want basically you are representing the customers You are presenting the customers globally, so you have to have your own opinion on how things should run So this is one thing Okay Now the onboarding system I will share with you a link at the end using QR code and the moment you onboard someone There is like a small interview To make sure about your big Guinness how passionate about the technology how passionate about open source How passionate about Linux it doesn't have to be red hat the document says red hat, but they don't The interviewers what they care about is open source Linux and your passion for science fiction things like this Basically your passion to be a continuous learner So what is the benefits for you if anybody here is for swag? This is the first benefit you get cool hats you get t-shirts you get stuff you get many swag the best swag you can have But other than swag you will get training There is like a weekly program by weekly program monthly program you get access to product managers You get access to engineering you get access to other Customers and these customers and these customers are and these customers are Selected based on their technical expertise, so you are not accessing anybody and these customers have realistic use cases What is the benefit to red hat they will get feedback they will get customer Obsession so basically a red hat becomes customer obsessed and now they understand what customer needs what customer feedback is Okay, you can prioritize what red hat has to work on in the road map on the features only you get access to new evaluations so you can actually drive the road map for red hat and You could discount it discounted subscriptions to event sometimes you get Access to event and you get access to talking the event That's why I am here with you because it's part of my red hat accelerator to promote and to be part of events So there are lots of activities, and I'm getting dry and you hold me second Yeah So let me ask you a question. How do you think you're going to scale your community? So the moment the community goes to a certain Scale of number of members and the number of content. What do you think can scale it up? any answers It's very easy So basically like Miguel said but Miguel is doing it the data science way Okay, you don't have to do it mathematically or something like this. No, it's very simple. It's common sense Your community is global your community is distributed So this is the first thing you need to do don't be a leader and borrowed others about others in your community to be leaders Everybody have seen this video before correct Okay, I don't know how to play it oops How can I play it? But this You have seen this video before but this one is a little bit different it is with the commentary on the leadership principle that The leader is not the one that makes the product successful. It's the followers and it's the first followers It's the second follower and there is an example from Radis on the link and you can find the link there and How Radis became now and GitHub over 55,000 today? It started with one comment on hacker news and this hacker news comment Was shared by one was commented by another Suggesting a different data engine and one contributed to it and one made it Basically global so basically you just need one follower that it's thoughtful follower for your community to grow and When your community grows you will be like this you'll be like these two kids content. Yeah So I have the links for myself and for red hat accelerator program on this QR code You can ask me any question about red hat accelerator or you can ask red hat accelerators directly And you can ask me about anything really And thank you Not your guys. Yes