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From YouTube: Sharing is Caring Build, Accelerate, Inspire Walid Shaari (Aramco) OpenShift Commons Gathering 2022

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Sharing is Caring Build, Accelerate, Inspire
Speaker: Walid Shaari (Aramco)

OpenShift Commons Gathering Kubecon EU
May 17, 2022 Live from Kubecon EU in Valencia, Spain

Full Agenda here: https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_at_Kubecon_Europe_2022.html

Learn more at: https://commons.openshift.org

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Hello, everybody, I'm glad that I am here and thanks to diane and everyone for attending this talk. This talk is going to be fun and I guess the word for fun is or something like that. But basically it's about the key takeaway from this talk is what diane was saying and miguel if you paid that close attention to what miguel and diane was saying all along.

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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.

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So the key takeaway is about it's about culture, and, if you listen to my colleague dr yes me earlier, one of the problems that we had for adopting kubernetes for adopting openshift was awareness, was learning and one way to solve this problem is actually communities learning communities.

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Okay. So, let's start from the basic who can tell me here: what is the community?

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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 shake your hands. Okay, we want you to wake up. Okay, now everybody!

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No, no christians. Please stand up.

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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 openshift commons, you don't have to check hands. We have something going on, but okay, now that's the sense of the community.

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That's what this community is about, knowing each other. We are all in openshift commons community and we have to learn about each other. Okay and we have to learn about purposes.

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Okay check your hands again: do you feel uh 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 walid shari. As diane said, I call myself the cloud native janitor, the at one time in linkedin. I was getting spammed by recruiters, so the best thing to do to recruiters is give them the title they will not basically relate to.

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I am a red hat accelerator and that's what we are going to talk about later on. That's what we're going to 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.

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This is another community I bridge to as well as a cncf chapter, mina middle east, north 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?

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Also, I am an ombud shift platform engineer, so this community helped me build. My knowledge. Helped me make my job easier. Help me understand. What's going on in the world, with openshift I'm advocating for open source, I'm advocating for automation, infrastructure as code ansible containers, basically kubernetes and openshift.

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I'm also have been selected by aws nominated by aws to be aws container hero. There are 48 heroes. Container here is worldwide and there are around 270 aws heroes worldwide, 170 plus, I am curious. One thing that I am famous with is two git hub brebus, one for the certification of cka. The other one is the certification of the cks, so I am certified cka. I am certified ckid certified, cks and anything related to openshift platform, and I call myself the cloud native janitor so who inspired me? Who was the behind my inspiration?

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So you see here different groups, different communities. I started with the egyptian red hat pre-sales. He got me into lxc before docker started and when docker started with solomon hike's, two minutes demo. Basically, I picked up 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.

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We have carlos antenna, who's, leading the k native across the whole and he's leading a book club he and eric small from sneak and sevi from container solutions, so this community across companies across different activities.

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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?

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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 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 non-systematic the systematic way.

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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.

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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. Beer head these ones, okay and be inclusive, be diverse.

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Don't basically don't 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 empower 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 workshops ability, give them resources and that's why a community supported by a vendor is a good community, because then you have more resources than if you have a loan or community supported by other communities.

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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 new technology, 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 a mix, but why do you want to attend? Why do you want to write such things?

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These are different reasons why you want to do this. If I ask if you, when you asked what was the things that you shared among yourself, most likely, you hear learning most likely hit collaboration, positive vibes things like that being strong together learning together teaching each other, collaborating with each other things like that.

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So, let's focus on the red hat accelerators, which is very special niche community. It's basically it's global, so it's not localized to a certain specific geo region. It crosses north america, europe and middle east and recently asia, pacific.

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There is a 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. You need to be passionate to be part of this community. I am not really not there, okay. So what makes a great hat a red hat, great accelerator.

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First of all, passion, uh openness, open-minded and opinionated, opinionated mindset, red hat, doesn't want you to be just follower. They want you basically to give feedback positive feedback, of course, but you want basically you 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.

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uh There is like a small interview to make sure about your gigginess. 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.

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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-shares, 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, bi-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.

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So you are not accessing anybody, and these customers have realistic use cases.

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What is the benefit to red hat? They will get feedback, they will get customer obsession. So basically red hat becomes customer obsessed and now they understand what customer needs. What customer feedback is? Okay, that you can prioritize? What hat has to work on in the roadmap on the features? Only you get access to new evaluations, so you can actually drive the roadmap for red hat and you could discount it discounted uh subscriptions to event. Sometimes you get access to events and you get access to talk in the event.

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That's why I am here with yoga, because it's part of my redhat accelerator to promote and to be part of events. So there are lots of activities and I'm getting dry. Can you hold me second yeah?

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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 any answers?

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It's very easy so, basically, like miguel said, but miguel is doing in 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!

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Your community is global. Your community is distributed. So this is the first thing you need to do, don't be a leader, empower, others empower others in your community to be leaders.

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Everybody have seen this video before correct.

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Okay, I don't know how to blame it oops. How can I play it.

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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 redis on the link and you can find the link there and how radis became now on github over 55 000.

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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 is total follower for your community to grow and when your community grows, you will be like this you'll be like this tooth. Kids content yeah.

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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. Mucho gracias,.

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