A great part of the OpenStack community, according the last user survey, is based mostly in the developed regions, like North America (44%), Europe (22%), and Japan (6%). However, there is still a big part of the community not located at those regions. Non-kernel countries that belong to the called third world, like Brazil, India, South Africa and others are getting more involved in the community. The road for this involvement is not always easy. Those countries are behind the others in some aspects, like (i) Summit and Midcycle meetup: It’s expensive to attend when you live thousands of miles from the places and your country does not have a strong currency; (ii) Language, for non-native english speakers; (iii) timezone shifts, if the meeting happens when you’re usually asleep, among other problems. In this talk, we’ll show how we, a couple of brazilians have overcome those issues during our OpenStack journey and have achieved a good place with contributions in the community.
Attendees will find practical solutions that we usually do to solve the problems described above. Like using the Travel Support Program to attend the Summit, use video stream on the Midcycle and translate documentation with Zanata and others.
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