Individual Member Profile
Kendall Nelson
To continue to grow the community and make it a more enjoyable place to work for contributors.
Kendall is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the Open Infrastructure Foundation based in the United States. She first started working on OpenStack during the Liberty release (2015) on Cinder and since then been involved in Release Management, StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide, and OpenStack Upstream Institute.
She’s recently gotten more involved in the Kubernetes community helping to bridge it with the OpenStack community via SIG Cloud Provider and provider OpenStack.
When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, binding open source communities together, or working to make upstream development in open source a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.
- The OpenStack Foundation - From 2016-08-22 (Current)
- IBM - From 2015-05-27 To 2016-08-19
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Block Storage (Cinder)
- Upstream Institute - OpenStack
- Upstream Institute - OpenDev
- Open Infrastructure Keynotes: Day 2
- Community Contributor Awards
- OpenStack Upstream Institute: Day 1 - Sponsored by Lenovo (RSVP Required)
- OpenStack Upstream Institute: Day 2 - Sponsored by Lenovo (RSVP Required)
- First Contact SIG Meet & Greet
- Welcoming New Contributors State of the Union and Deduplication of Efforts
- Ibuprofen for Your StoryBoard Pain Points
- Superuser/Community Contributor Awards
- OpenStack Upstream Institute Sponsored by Lenovo (RSVP Required)
- Community Contributor Awards
- Making the Contributor Portal More Useful
- OpenStack Upstream Institute Sponsored by Lenovo - Day 1 (RSVP Required)
- OpenStack Upstream Institute Sponsored by Lenovo - Day 2 (RSVP Required)
- Community Contributor Recognition & How to Get Started
- Community Contributor Awards & Grab and Go Lunch
- First Contact SIG: Q&A/ Meet & Greet
- The Contributor Guide: Ops Feedback Session
- StoryBoard Migration: The Remaining Blockers
- OpenStack Upstream Institute Sponsored by Lenovo - Day 2 (RSVP Required)
- Drafting Requirements for Organisations Contributing to Open
- Continuing the Migration: Launchpad -> StoryBoard
- Forum 101
- OpenStack Upstream Institute Sponsored by Lenovo - Day 1 (RSVP Required)
