Roles of people in CouchSurfing
What are the roles of people in CouchSurfing?
Any CouchSurfer
Is sometimes a host, sometimes a guest.
Ideally many CouchSurfers would at some point start working on improving CouchSurfing itself. By partaking in editing on this wiki, helping out with answer Contact Us questions, setting up meetings, doing administrative work. ... Unfortunately the Leadership Team is still not ready for this in 2009.
Ambassadors
CouchSurfing ambassadors are representatives of CouchSurfing.
Collective
CouchSurfing collectives are meeting places for people who actively want to cooperate on improving CouchSurfing.
Admins
CouchSurfing has a limited number of administrators. They can do things such as monitor security on the site (dealing with users with suspicious motives), deal with other more sensitive issues, handle verifications, reset passwords, change usernames etc.
Founders
Four people started the CouchSurfing project, the founders.
Other
Note: these are higly speculative, CS organizational structure is still under discussion by founders, admins and collective participants.