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Cloud Foundry in the Community - Kim Bannerman, IBM; Lukas Lehmann, Swisscom; Paula Kennedy, Pivotal; and Stormy Peters, Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is more than an open source platform; it’s a growing community! In the past two years, our community has grown by leaps and bounds as a result of very passionate and dedicated people as well as crucial community tools like GitHub, Slack, and Twitter. Cloud Foundry meet-ups foster a collaborative, inclusive environment focused on new releases, best practices, and how customers are using Cloud Foundry. Come meet Cloud Foundry organizer for Seattle and Atlanta Kim Bannerman of IBM, London organizer Paula Kennedy of Cloud Credo/Pivotal, and Lukas Lehmann of Swisscom (Swisscom helps to organize the CF Community across the EU). Moderated by Stormy Peters, VP of Advocacy for the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The panel will discuss lessons learned, what 2016 looks like for the Cloud Foundry community. About Stormy Peters Stormy Peters is an information technology industry analyst with a long standing career in educating and advocating for open source software, Stormy built up and led Mozilla’s 7000 strong developer network and has been a leader in the open source community efforts through multiple positions and philanthropic projects. Previously she was VP of Developer Relations at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Prior to that, she was Director of the Mozilla Developer Network and served as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. At Hewlett-Packard she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office that is responsible for HP’s open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy Peters is a founding member and director of Kids on Computers and served as its first President. She is also on the board of directors for Software Freedom Conservancy. Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. About Kim Bannerman Kim Bannerman leads the Technical Advocacy & Community team inside the Office of the CTO at IBM Blue Box. Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry working with enterprise customers. Prior to joining Blue Box, she was the Director of Evangelism Programs inside the ISV Partner Ecosystem at CenturyLink Cloud. Kim is passionate about open source and the open source community. She co-founded the Atlanta Hadoop Users Group in 2011, and co-founded the Seattle & Atlanta Cloud Foundry meet-up groups in 2014. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman About Paula Kennedy Paula joined Pivotal in 2015 as Director of Business Operations, EMEA Services and is focused on working together with clients to drive innovation, disruption and transformation. She was previously Chief Operating Officer and cofounder of CloudCredo and has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years. Paula is passionate about community, diversity and inclusion, and has a range of speaking experience, including Cloud Foundry Summits in Santa Clara and Berlin, QCon in London and several meetups. She also organises the London PaaS User Group. About Lukas Lehmann Lukas Lehmann is product owner of Swisscom’s Application Cloud and a Cloud Foundry ambassador. As a cloud native, he loves developer platforms. That’s why he got in contact with Cloud Foundry: In 2013 Swisscom sent him to Pivotal Labs to build the skills needed to run a large scale Cloud Foundry implementation. As co–founder of the Cloud Foundry user group in Switzerland, he is also heavily involved in the whole Swiss cloud community.