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[openstack-community] User Survey - Deadline Feb 24th
by Tom Fifield 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Hi all, If you run OpenStack, build apps on it, or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take a few minutes to respond to the latest User Survey or pass it along to your friends. Since 2013, the user survey has provided significant insight into what people are deploying and how they're using OpenStack. You can see the most recent results in the October 2015 report[1]. Please follow the link and instructions below to complete the User Survey by ***February 24, 2016 at 23:00 UTC***. If you already completed the survey, there's no need to start over. You can simply log back in to update your Deployment Profile, as well as take the opportunity to provide additional input. You need to do this to keep your past survey responses active, but we hope you'll do it because we've made the survey shorter and with more interesting questions ;) Take the Survey ( http://www.openstack.org/user-survey ) All of the information you provide is confidential to the Foundation and User Committee and will be aggregated anonymously unless you clearly indicate we can publish your organization’s profile. Remember you can hear directly from users and see the aggregate survey findings by attending the next OpenStack Summit, April 25-29 in Austin (http://www.openstack.org/summit) Thank you again for your support. -Tom PS, an RT of https://twitter.com/OpenStack/status/695751431542874112 helps too :) [1] https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2016-q1/landing?BackURL=%2Fuse…

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[openstack-community] Travel Support Program - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Hi everyone, The Foundation is doubling the amount of folks that will be accepted into the Travel Support Program for the OpenStack Summit Austin. The Travel Support Program aims to facilitate participation of key contributors to attend the OpenStack Summit by covering the costs for their travel and accommodations. The OpenStack Foundation has set aside a fund to support this program. The total amount of the fund is to be divided among the approved key contributors. The grants will cover a combination of flights, accommodation, and access pass to the Summit. More details here <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Travel_Support_Program>. You can apply for the Travel Support Program here: https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#travel-supp… <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#travel-supp…> The deadline to submit an application is Tuesday, February 9. Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Mentoring
by Mike Perez 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Mentoring is an important tool for growing our OpenStack community. Mentors help new community members come on board and existing community members expand their skills and reputation. Mentees help their mentors expand their worldview and challenge their mindset. This process of gaining knowledge and challenging existing ideas is vital to our community. The OpenStack community currently has a few levels of mentoring: * Outreachy mentoring - an intense internship-type experience over a particular three month period https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Outreachy. * Upstream University - a two-day class for beginners in the community, held on-site the two days prior to the summit The Women of OpenStack group has seen the need for additional types of mentoring, specifically long term but lightweight mentoring aimed at bringing together mentors and mentees who may not be co-located. * Technical mentoring - mentorship is spread over several months. Mentors with experience in a particular area of OpenStack help their mentees grow in that area. This could be a focus area like release management or marketing, or a particular project like Nova or Neutron. * Career mentoring - mentorship is spread out over several months or years. Mentors help their mentees define what kind of career they'd like in the community and move towards those goals. Mentors and mentees may or may not have the same focus area in the community. We hope to kick off these new mentoring programs before the Austin summit, to tie in with a new Speed Mentoring session there. We are currently looking for mentors of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds to take part in the program pilot. Mentors should have between 1 and 4 hours a month free to spend with their menthe. Read our guidelines (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtM4AiszlEyVkEtdktmWjBPN3c/view) and if you're ready to sign up, please fill out our questionnaire https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring! There is an optional speed mentoring session that will be on April 25th Monday morning at the OpenStack conference in Austin before the first keynote. In this event, mentees will be able to meet a variety of mentors in a short amount of time to see who they would like to pair up with. Please check the appropriate box on the questionnaire form if you’re interested in attending. -- Mike Perez -- Mike Perez

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[openstack-community] NEW DEADLINE: Feb 2 Call for Speakers - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi everyone, The Call for Speakers unexpectedly closed early. It is now open again and the deadline has been extended for one more day. The NEW deadline to submit a talk is February 2 at 11:59pm PST (February 3 at 7:59 UTC). Please submit your talks HERE <https://www.openstack.org/summit-login/login?BackURL=/summit/austin-2016/ca…>! We apologize for the error and any inconvenience it may have caused you. If you have any questions, please email speakersupport(a)openstack.org. Cheers, Kendall

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[openstack-community] a small PR proposal to each user group regarding OpenStack Days
by Jaesuk Ahn 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Dear User Groups and Ambassadors, This is Jaesuk Ahn from Korea User Group. As some of you already know, OpenStack Korea User Group is having the first OpenStack Days event in 2016. (http://event.openstack.or.kr) I was planning to have 10min talk to address how important “User” is for OpenStack Community. Especially, since OpenStack Days becomes somewhat official event of OpenStack community, I would like to emphasize this is official festival of OpenStack. Then, while I am looking into 2016’s upcoming OpenStack Days event, I got one idea. For each OpenStack Days event, it will be fun to show “photo” of other user groups to hold a congratulation sign. For instance, each user group can send us a photo with holding the following comments. "Way to go OpenStack Days Korea” from china “Congratulation on your OpenStack Days Korea” from sydney .. .. Then, I will share these photos for our pre-event PR, and also at the beginning of the OpenStack Days Korea event. It is really similar to what we do for OpenStack birthday. :) We can do this for every OpenStack Days event during 2016. :) -- Jaesuk Ahn, Ph.D. Software Defined Infra Tech. Lab. SKT

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[openstack-community] Call for Speakers Deadline in ONE WEEK - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi everyone, The deadline to submit a speaking proposal for the OpenStack Summit in Austin is in ONE week, Monday, February 1 at 11:59pm PST. Submit your speaking proposals HERE <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/call-for-speakers/>! Speakers are limited to a maximum of THREE submissions total. Read this Superuser article <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-land-a-successful-openstack-…> for an outline of all the new changes. You can also get advice and tips on creating a successful talk for the Austin Summit in this webinar recording from the Women of OpenStack. <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-craft-a-successful-openstack…> IMPORTANT SUMMIT LINKS: Registration <https://openstacksummit2016austin.eventbrite.com/>: prices increase in early March Hotel Room Blocks <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#hotels> Travel Support Program <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/austin-and-travel/#travel-supp…>: Deadline February 9 Visa Invitation Letter Requests <https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/visa_form_austin_summit>: Deadline April 19 If you have any questions, please email summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org>. We look forward to seeing you in Austin! Cheers, The OpenStack Summit Team

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[openstack-community] Upstream University: Signup for Mentors and Mentees
by Mike Perez 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hello all! I'm trying to gather how much interest there is do an Upstream University at the Austin summit as we've done at the summits since Paris. Here's an excerpt from the training guides about the program [1]: We've designed a training program to help professional developers negotiate this hurdle. It shows them how to ensure their bug fix or feature is accepted in the OpenStack project in a minimum amount of time. The educational program requires students to work on real-life bug fixes or new features during two days of real-life classes and online mentoring, until the work is accepted by OpenStack. The live two-day class teaches them to navigate the intricacies of the project's technical tools and social interactions. In a followup session, the students benefit from individual online sessions to help them resolve any remaining problems they might have. In order for this program to be successful, we need mentors and students/mentees. If you're available April 23-24 before the summit starts in Austin, TX and want to help others and mentor or just want to learn more on contributing to OpenStack, please sign up and check the box that indicates you're interested in the Upstream University. https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring Even if you're unable to participate, please consider spreading the word so this event can be a success! [1] - https://github.com/openstack/training-guides/blob/master/doc/upstream-train… -- Mike Perez

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[openstack-community] MONDAY Deadline to Submit Talks - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi everyone, It's the last weekend to create and submit your session proposal for the OpenStack Summit Austin. Get tips here <http://awe.sm/hPIfn>. The deadline to submit session proposals is MONDAY, February 1st at 11:59pm PST. Hurry and submit your talks HERE <https://www.openstack.org/summit-login/login?BackURL=/summit/austin-2016/ca…>! Cheers, Kendall

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[openstack-community] Out of OfficeCommunity Digest, Vol 42, Issue 20
by robert.brunne＠fundserv.com 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

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[openstack-community] request to give a mailing list
by Wang, Shane 26 Jan '16

26 Jan '16

Hi, would you please review and approve my request to create a new mailing list at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/272851/? Thanks. -- Shane

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