Recommendations for Distinguished Contributors Program

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Axim’s Distinguished Contributor Program is launching at this year’s Open edX Conference (July 1–4, 2025, in Telecom Paris) to honor individuals and organizations whose contributions have made a lasting impact on the Open edX ecosystem.

If you’d like to suggest a contribution from the team at OpenCraft, please feel free to do so in this thread. We’ll need any suggestions by June 3rd. I will complete the nomination form once suggestions are made, but here are the questions that will be asked:

"Which technical advancement, contribution, or improvement made a real difference?
Please take a moment to reflect on what kind of achievement stood out to you.
Here are a few guiding questions to help you think — you don’t need to answer all of them; they’re just here to inspire your response:

  • Did you notice a fix, feature, or tool that improved how you or others use Open edX platform?
  • Have you seen a project that significantly raised the bar for code quality or documentation?
  • Was there a contribution that made development or deployment smoother or more efficient?"

Please note, if selected as a Distinguished Contributor there is some commitment (partially optional) to mentorship as part of the program:

KR 2.1: Create a mentorship framework where at least 50% of Distinguished Contributors actively mentor new community members.
KR 2.2: Facilitate monthly/ quarterly knowledge-sharing sessions led by Distinguished Contributors (e.g., webinars, panel discussions).
KR 2.3: Ensure at least 5 Distinguished Contributors actively participate in Open edX Working Groups and strategic initiatives.

Thank you!

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Thanks @jordan . For budget here this would likely have to come from the core contributor hours budget - for core contributors, time answering this or fulfilling the duties of Distinguished Contributor would I think count towards core contributor time.

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Although I can think of many OpenCraft team members who could become distinguished Contributors, my top recommendation would be to nominate @braden. However, he is currently very busy with Axim work, so I’m not sure if he can commit to mentorship or additional contribution work. I’ll let him decide ; )

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What does this entail? If it’s answering questions etc., then I already do that. But if it means reserving hours of time to do pair programming via Zoom, that would be tough for me to fit in.

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Good question, I’ve left a message to get some more information on the potential commitment to mentoring.