Eco System Building Presentation at SODACODE, May 2022. URL at Sched by Linux Foundation: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/sodacode2022/da/Day1_S12_SODACODE2022_SODAAmbassadorsEcosystem%20%281%29.pdf

1. SODA Ambassadors & Community Ecosystem
Krishna M Kumar
SODA Ambassador
Principal Architect Cloud & Senior Manager, Accenture

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Open Source Community : How best you collaborate?!
Open
Source
Community
Developers
Vendors
Users
Partners
Foundations
Projects
Effective collaboration makes an open source community successful and sustainable!

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SODA Ambassador : Where we belong to?

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SODA Ambassador : Who we are?
Evangelizes Blogs Educates Codes
• Promoting data and storage projects and technology
• Educating a local community on the SODA mission
• Contributing to SODA projects
Outreach and Accelerate SODA Ecosystem Development & Adoption

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• We are bloggers, influencers, evangelists who engage with SODA and
contribute to forums, online groups, community events, etc.
• We are experts who have commitment to sharing SODA knowledge with
others.
• We enable users and developers to contribute and grow along with the
SODA ecosystem
• We are volunteers geographically located all over the world in all time
zones, eager to help SODA enthusiasts!
Various ways we reach out…
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Our Focus…
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Developers Vendors / Partners
Users

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Our Focus…
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Developers
• Building awareness on the projects, opportunities and benefits
• Ease out the entry barrier
• Support meetups and engagement events
• Focus students programs with Other SODA out reach initiatives

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Our Focus…
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Users
• Build better understanding of SODA Features and Solutions
• Develop the uses cases with current SODA releases
• Create customer testimonial on successful deployment
• identify future use cases and implementation opportunities

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Vendors / Partners
• Communicate SODA Benefits for vendors and partners
• Connect events participation
• Reach out to Regional vendors and partners
• Vendor / Partner Value strategy inputs to SODA

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Activities , not limited to ;)
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SODA Projects
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SODA Framework Projects:
• Terra : a universal SDS controller for connecting storage to platforms like Kubernetes, OpenStack, and VMware
• Strato : simplifies hybrid and mult-icloud by using a single S3-compatible interface to connect to public cloud storage
• Delfin : provides a single unified view of storage performance for heterogeneous storage infrastructure
• Kahu : a new project to streamline data protection for Kubernetes and application data
• Como : a newly proposed virtual data lake project to enable seamless access to data stored in different clouds
SODA ECO Projects:
10 ECO Projects (and counting!) for solution collaboration
with SODA Framework projects
Great opportunity for developers to join and contribute. Especially for the new projects!

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SODA Releases
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SODA ODF Madagascar v1.7.0 is announced and available in May 2022
• Heterogeneous Performance Monitoring
• Centralized Manager for wider integration for more storage models
• Host mapping support added for IBM SVC, DS8000, Dell EMC VNX Block, Dell EMC VMAX,
NetApp, HPE 3PAR, Pure Storage, Fujitsu Eternus, Hitachi VSP etc
• Performance metrics collection support added for HPE 3PAR, Dell EMC Unity
• Detailed verification on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Container Data Protection for Kubernetes
• Kahu, the new Project for Backup/Restore with Metadata Backup PoC
• Bug fixes and improvements for Multi-cloud, Dashboard, Installer and Documentation
Highlights

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• Grow Developer Ecosystem
– Focus Regional Developer Ecosystem
– Students engagement programs with Univeristies
• Develop customer adoption & testimonials?
– 2+ Open Source use cases
– 2+ Industry use cases
– 2+ Partner use cases
• Develop a Sandbox SODA test bed
– Will help novice SODA users to adopt/try?
– Will help students to get acquaint with SODA quickly?
– Will help act as “Reference Architecture” for user adoption?
SODA Ambassador : Plan 2022-23
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• Apply through the Web page:
• https://www.sodafoundation.io/ambassadors/
• Candidate Criteria:
• Any kind of engagement with Open Source communities
• Willing to contribute time to involve with SODA activities
• Hosting Data or Storage related community events
• Affiliated with SODA or related organizations in any contribution level
• More than anything else, passionate about open source and community ecosystem!
• Who can apply:
• SODA member affiliation OR project contributor OR recommended by SODA committee
member OR one anyone who has experience / passion to work with open source
community with some community/industry experience
You want to join us?!
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• Up to USD150/month for meetup expenses
• SODA Ambassador swag – jacket, digital badge, etc.
• Free tickets to SODACON
• Support with finding speakers for the meetups and local events.
• Speaking opportunities at SODACON or SODA industry events (possibility of travel expense
reimbursement).
• Blogging opportunities
• Social media promotion support.
SODA Ambassador Benefits
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So, join us for this Open Source initiative,
Enhance your global visibility!
Apply here

17. THANK YOU!
https://www.sodafoundation.io/
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