# The October 2019 Open Organization Ambassadors Report
## Contents
{1} Editor's Notes
{2} Ambassador Publications
{3} Site Stats
{4} Monthly Highlights
{5} Looking Ahead
{6} Ambassador Notes
## {1} Editor's Notes
Welcome to the October edition of the Open Organization Ambassadors Report!
October was an impressive month for the open organization community.
Ambassador Laura Hilliger launched a multimedia series chronicling her
work at Greenpeace. Several members of the Ambassador community gathered
in Raleigh for 2020 community planning and participation in the All
Things Open conference. And the _Open Organization Guide for Educators_
continued to receive attention, both on Opensource.com and in the press.
In all, our materials generated 1,094 page views at Opensource.com and
volumes in our book series saw 334 total downloads. Read on to learn
more about what the community is up to!
Editorially yours,
Bryan
## {2} Ambassador Publications
Ambassadors published the following articles in October:
* Laura Hilliger: "Fight for the planet: Building an open platform and
open culture at Greenpeace"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/open-platform-greenpeace
* Ron McFarland: "Climate challenges call for open solutions"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/global-energy-climate-challenges
* Laura Hilliger: "How collaboration fueled a development breakthrough
at Greenpeace"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/collaboration-breakthrough-greenpeace
## {3} Site Stats
The most-read article of the month was:
1. Laura Hilliger: "Fight for the planet: Building an open platform and
open culture at Greenpeace"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/open-platform-greenpeace
Views: 921
Additional metrics:
Page views for October: 15,053 (September: 15,559; August: 12,792)
Organize for Innovation downloads in October: 40 (September: 50; August: 43)
Workbook downloads in October: 41 (September: 36; August: 20)
Guide to IT Culture Change downloads in October: 43 (September: 52;
August: 33)
Guide for Educators downloads in October: 116 (September: 334; August: NA)
Leaders Manual downloads in October: 35 (September: 43; August: 32)
Field Guide downloads in October: 44 (September: 47; August: 31)
Open Organization Definition downloads in October: 15 (September: 21;
August: 11)
## {4} Monthly Highlights
- In October, Open Organization Ambassador Laura Hilliger debuted a
three-part multimedia series detailing her work helping Greenpeace
become an open organization. The series, which combines Laura's written
narrative with audio and video clips, concludes in November.[1]
- Several Open Organization Ambassadors gathered at the All Things Open
conference in Raleigh, October 13‒15. Ambassadors collaborated at an
in-person workshop to conduct 2020 community planning, and identified
several short- and long-term goals they'd like to achieve in the coming
year. Ambassadors also staffed a both in the conference expo hall, where
they distributed copies of books in the _Open Organization_ series and
discussed open culture and process challenges with attendees.
- _The Open Organization Guide for Educators_ received press in October.
Lancaster Online [2] published a story about contributor Max Bushong, a
high school student at Penn Manor (and the book's youngest contributor).
Additionally, EducationDive [3] published a piece from book contributor
Charlie Reisinger, also of Penn Manor, who summarized his own chapter of
the book.
[1] https://opensource.com/tags/open-organization-greenpeace
[2]
https://lancasteronline.com/news/schools/when-it-comes-to-tech-penn-manor-student-has-the/article_a69da0fc-ef43-11e9-bcf5-93fc3ff2f365.html
[3]
https://www.educationdive.com/news/high-schoolers-in-charge-how-one-school-gave-up-control-and-won/565188/
## {5} Looking Ahead
- The next meeting of the Open Organization Ambassadors community will
occur November 14, 2019 at 16:00 Eastern / 20:00 UTC / 21:00 CET. At
this meeting, we'll welcome Matt Thompson of Work Open, who'll share his
recent work.[1] A meeting agenda is now available for Open Organization
Ambassadors to modify and populate.[2]
- The next (and final) article in the multimedia series by Laura
Hilliger will debut on Tuesday, November 05 at Opensource.com. This
final chapter explains how helping her team learn to work openly taught
Laura some new lessons in open leadership.
[1] https://workopen.org/matt/
[2] https://www.theopenorganization.community/t/november-14-2019-meeting/92
## {6} Ambassador Notes
Jen Kelchner writes:
"As LDR21 approaches its 3rd birthday at the top of the year, we have
found ourselves in a new space serving the Public Sector CIOs and CTOs
in NA and EMEA. With this shift in the last year, we are launching a
rebrand and new market position on November 4th! From a new brand
identity, logo, and refined vision, we will now only focus on offering
Digital Transformation Office services to change culture and processes
and connect people with information and ideas (specifically to the
Public Sector). In addition, we have begun working on/with Connected
Communities efforts with municipalities Visit our refreshed site on
November 4th for more information![1]
I'll be speaking at Red Hat Government Symposium on November 12th in
Washington, DC in a breakout session on A Government Leaders Guide to
Culture Change.[2] In this roundtable breakout session, Jen will focus
on information flow, reskilling competency efforts, and embracing
failure related to culture change.
Our team who went to the 53rd ICA Conference in Bucharest, is now
working to launch a Discourse community for this global members-only
forum of CIOs and CTOs. In the next few months, we will kick-off this
community, begin to add content, educate them on engagement with each
other, and provide virtual working sessions on the topics covered at the
conference. You can now view the full report from the ICA Conference in
September.[3]"
[1] https://ldr21.com/
[2] https://www.fedscoop.com/events/redhatgov/
[3] http://ica-it.org/pdf/Conference-Report-2019.pdf
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(See you in 30!—BB)
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