Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding

As a platform for helping build a better Internet, Cloudflare helps turn ideas into real products and experiences around the world. Across communities and backgrounds, developers build with Cloudflare using the tools they love, shaping what comes next for the Internet while inspiring, collaborating with, and teaching others. The community is where some of Cloudflare’s best moments happen. Students show their friends how to deploy Workers for the first time. Discord users answer questions from other developers via working code samples, instead of links to documentation. Open-source contributors build novel solutions to solve their own problems, then share them with the world. Organizers host events that give builders from all backgrounds the space to start building their dream project. All of these represent a community at its best: people helping other people build. This spirit of community is an exciting and vital part of helping to build the Internet. Those who step up to educate and support others, or to invent, build, or maintain tools shared across the ecosystem, make lasting contributions to the health and potential of the Internet. We want to have their backs. That's why today we’re announcing an improved community program, designed to better support, recognize, and empower the people getting involved, while working with them to shape what comes next. The program has two main tracks: Cloudflare Ambassadors: Bringing Cloudflare to their own communities. Cloudflare Community Engineers: Contributing to open-source projects that improve the Internet. We’re launching a new home for the program where you can learn more and get involved: cloudflare.com/community . Cloudflare Ambassadors Cloudflare Ambassadors are people who bring Cloudflare into their own communities. You can probably think of people in the communities you value who share a genuine passion for a product or technology. It’s inspiring and we love to see it. When that enthusiasm includes the tools we’re building here at Cloudflare, it’s especially exciting for us. Following our annual application process (more below), we’ll announce the year’s Cloudflare Ambassadors cohort. Selected Ambassadors will receive support, resources, and benefits to help their community thrive and bring their ideas to life. Ambassadors can serve for up to two years, giving them meaningful time to build momentum while helping us support more communities over time. What Ambassadors do and what we provide Being...