Good luck Chad and hope to see you around! Best, Robin
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Bryan Behrenshausen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Robin Muilwijk Advisor Internet and e-Government Community Ambassador Opensource.com Community Manager eZ Systems Discover an open source world | http://opensource.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robinmuilwijk/ Twitter : @i_robin
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