At the end of October, Chad Whitacre will finish his term as an Open Organization Ambassador at Opensource.com. I'd like to thank Chad—and I hope (as Chad would say) yinz'll join me in doing so too—for his outstanding service to the group.
Chad joined our community in August 2016 after sharing two insightful stories about the way his startup, Gratipay, handled "hire-yourself employment" [1] and "take-what-you-want compensation" [2]. As you might imagine, those articles turned some heads. Clearly, Gratipay was paving the way for organizations to think differently about some tried-and-true processes, and Chad joined forces with us to help explain this new age of open and distributed work to Opensource.com readers. To that end, Chad composed columns on issues like open source community branding [3] and organizational ethics [4]. His tutorial on public issue trackers [5] appeared in _The Open Organization Leaders Manual_. And his piece on "open source's free rider problem" remains one of the most popular open organization stories on Opensource.com [6]. As a community member, Chad was instrumental in ensuring we practiced what we advocated every day. He was instrumental in establishing the ambassador community's GitHub organization—now a fundamental component in our ongoing activities—and helped open the community's publication schedule there. He also spurred development of the Open Organization Definition more than a year ago, after a robust discussion at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC. Chad, I wish you all the very best as you embark on your next great adventure. Thanks for all you've given to our community! Sincerely, Bryan ----- [1] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves> [2] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/7/compensating-employees-letting-them-take-what-they-want> [3] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open> [4] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/7/open-org-hacker-ethic> [5] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/2/tracking-issues-publicly> [6] <https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/11/open-source-free-rider-problem> _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
