Cloudflare Introduces Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and $1 Million Open-Source Fund

Cloudflare Introduces Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and $1 Million Open-Source Fund Cloudflare has unveiled a refreshed community program featuring the Cloudflare Ambassadors track, a Community Engineers track supported by an additional $1 million in open-source funding, and a collaborative Discord committee. The Cloudflare Ambassadors program supports community organizers and educators for up to two years, with applications open through September 6. Cloudflare committed an additional $1 million over two years to fund open-source maintainers via the Community Engineers program, starting with projects such as Astro, Agents SDK, EmDash, Hono, and Vinext. A new Discord committee pairing staff with Ambassadors will facilitate technical discussions, while automated spam-prevention tools handling moderation will soon be open-sourced. Cloudflare Ambassadors Track The Cloudflare Ambassadors track is designed for individuals who organize meetups, hackathons, student groups, or create educational content. Selected participants serve for up to two years and receive technical resources, marketing assets, credits, and visible roles in Cloudflare's digital spaces. Applications are open until September 6, with chosen ambassadors notified by October 5. Community Engineers and Open-Source Grants Expanding on a previous $1 million fund for Vite following its VoidZero acquisition, Cloudflare has committed an additional $1 million over the next two years for open-source sponsorship. The Community Engineer program does not enforce a maximum term length, allowing ongoing support for maintainers. Initial grants will prioritize contributors working around projects such as Astro, Agents SDK, EmDash, Hono, and Vinext, with applications opening at a later date. Discord Committee and Moderation Automation To support a Discord server with nearly 100,000 members, Cloudflare is forming a committee of staff and Ambassadors to connect community members with internal domain experts and product teams. Instead of tasking community members with manual administration, Cloudflare is employing automated protections against spam and malicious links, with plans to open-source these moderation tools for broader use.

Cloudflare 升级社区计划：推行大使与社区工程师制度并追加 100 万美元开源资助 Cloudflare 宣布对社区计划进行全面升级，推出“Cloudflare 大使”与“社区工程师”两条轨道，承诺在未来两年内追加 100 万美元开源资助，并设立专门的 Discord 委员会以改善开发者互动生态。 启动 Cloudflare 大使计划，任期最长两年，申请截止日期为 9 月 6 日，入选者可获活动额度与技术等资源支持。 推出社区工程师项目并追加 100 万美元开源资助，重点扶持 Astro、Hono 等相关开源项目维护者且不设任期上限。 联合大使与员工组建 Discord 委员会，专注于内容与技术对接，并计划开源自研的防垃圾信息自动化工具。 Cloudflare 大使计划 Cloudflare 设立了大使计划以表彰在本地和在线社区推广技术的开发者。大使可以组织黑客松、技术讲座或校园活动，并可申请营销、额度及技术资源支持。大使任期最长为两年，2026–2027 届的申请截止日期为 9 月 6 日，评选结果将于 10 月 5 日前公布。 社区工程师与开源资助 继此前通过收购 VoidZero 设立 100 万美元基金支持 Vite 社区后，Cloudflare 承诺在未来两年内再追加 100 万美元开源资金。新设的社区工程师项目不设固定任期，初期将重点资助与 Cloudflare 自身生态相关的项目维护者，包括 Astro、Agents SDK、EmDash、Hono 以及 Vinext 等，该专项申请将于日后开放。 Discord 社区治理与工具开源 针对拥有近 10 万用户的官方 Discord 社区，Cloudflare 组建了由大使与官方员工构成的 Discord 委员会，旨在连接开发者与内部产品团队，摆脱日常繁琐管理。日常防垃圾与防恶意链接任务已交由自动化工具处理，Cloudflare 计划在近期将这些安全自动化工具向公众开源。

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: We’re launching a new home for the program where you can learn more and get involved: [cloudflare.com/community](http://cloudflare.com/community). 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](http://cloudflare.com/community#community-application) (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. Being an Ambassador might mean organizing a local event, leading a student group, creating spaces where builders can learn together, publishing tutorials or sharing content online, or being the person others turn to when they want to understand what’s possible with Cloudflare. Ambassadors will take the lead on events in their communities, whether on campus, through local organizations, or across their city. When hosting meetups, hackathons, workshops, or talks, they will be able to apply for support in the form of credits, marketing assets, technical resources, and more. We’ll also give them a visible role in Cloudflare’s online community spaces, including Discord, so that other developers know who they are, and that they’re here to help. Applications are open now, and will be accepted through September 6. Those selected as Ambassadors will be informed of their selection by October 5. [Apply to become a Cloudflare Ambassador](http://cloudflare.com/community#community-application) A great example of the enthusiasm we’re looking for comes from Sruthi Pereddy, a Computer Science major at University of Michigan and a current intern on Cloudflare’s Recruiting Ops team. Sruthi’s work within Cloudflare has created a drive to share and explore more with others: “Whether it’s hackathons, startup venture funds, or coursework, I want to show my peers that Cloudflare is a go-to developer platform for whatever they’re building,” Pereddy says. “Students are ready to build, but often feel constrained by resources. I’m excited to bridge that gap and make sure they have the infrastructure to turn their ideas into reality from day one.” Some community work happens in person, but a great deal of community work also happens in code. Much of Cloudflare’s Developer Platform is built on open-source work, or *is* open-source, like [workerd](https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) and [quiche](https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche). Open-source contributors, especially maintainers, do wonderful work and embody so much passion and determination. We’re eager to support them, especially since their work can sometimes feel thankless. So we’re doubling down on our efforts to build stronger incentives and directly support the maintainers doing this important work. Last year, we [announced our sponsorship](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-astro-tanstack/) of the web framework [TanStack](https://tanstack.com/). TanStack creator Tanner Linsley says that sponsorship has had a major impact. “Cloudflare’s sponsorship has given us room to keep investing in foundational open-source work that’s hard to tie to a single product or launch, maintaining the core libraries, improving docs and tooling, supporting contributors, and putting real time into bigger bets like TanStack Router and Start,” Linsley says. “It’s also helped us make sure TanStack apps have a really solid path onto Cloudflare’s platform. More than anything, that support buys stability, which is kind of everything when you’re building open source for the long haul.” Today, we’re expanding on our previous open-source investments by introducing Cloudflare Community Engineers. Earlier this year, we announced a $1M fund as part of [our acquisition of VoidZero](https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/) to support the Vite community. **We’re committing an additional $1M in funding** to sponsor and support open-source projects over the next two years, with eligible Community Engineers receiving grants from the fund to support their continuing work in open source. The Community Engineer program does not have a maximum term. Open source work doesn’t neatly fit into annual cycles. Some projects require maintenance for years, while other times, contributors do the work that is needed at exactly the right moment. This program is intended to support that. To begin, we’ll focus on developers working on things in the orbit of our own open-source projects — projects like Astro, Agents SDK, EmDash, Hono, and Vinext. We’ll also grant our Community Engineers a special designation in Cloudflare’s Discord server and other online spaces. Applications for Community Engineer grants will open at a later date. Since we launched [Cloudflare’s Discord server](https://discord.cloudflare.com/) in 2020, almost 100,000 Cloudflare users have joined. Our Discord server has become one of the main places where developers ask questions, share projects, and provide valuable feedback. But of course, the more a Discord community grows, the more effort is required to keep it healthy and approachable. To address this, a new Discord committee will help to maintain and grow our Discord community, with Cloudflare Ambassadors joining Cloudflare staff on the committee. This is **not** about being on hand to perform moderation and admin tasks. We’ve been building tools and automations to help us do that with far less human intervention. Our new automated protections against spam and malicious links are starting to relieve this burden, allowing our Developer Relations team to help manage things where some human insight is needed. *In fact, w*e’ll be open-sourcing and sharing those tools soon because we think every Discord server could benefit from less spam and malicious content. The committee will help provide a useful connection to those building and managing products at Cloudflare. They’ll be able to steer people and conversations to domain experts and convene conversations and sessions with internal teams and makers around the community. They’ll be much more focused on content and opportunities than on the type of Discord administrivia that can otherwise swallow so much time and energy. We want our Discord to be easier to use, contribute to, and trust. It should be a place where builders find each other, help each other, and shape the future of the platform together. We believe this is the way. To learn more about the community program, and to apply for a role, visit the new community site at [cloudflare.com/community](http://cloudflare.com/community). [Applications to join the 2026-27 Cloudflare Ambassadors](http://cloudflare.com/community#community-application) cohort have now officially opened. Be sure to apply by September 6. And don’t forget to join the conversation in the [Cloudflare Discord](https://discord.cloudflare.com/).