Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

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PTLs and Cores: We are Not as Scary as You Think - Organized by the Women of OpenStack
Community Building

Assemble a panel of select PTLs and Cores who value diversity and inclusion to share their experiences coming up through the ranks within the OpenStack Community and offer guidance to new OpenStack Community members. "We Aren't as Scary as You Think" is aimed at newer members of the Community who may be too intimidated to engage in a dialog with more senior Community leaders. The PTLs and Cores will share their experiences on how they scaled the OpenStack learning curve as a way to help accelerate on-boarding new members into the Community.




What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn :

  • the role of the PTL and Core within the OpenStack Community
  • the proper way to engage OpenStack PTLs, Cores, and senior technical leaders
  • best practices for contributing to OpenStack
Tuesday, October 25, 5:05pm-5:45pm (3:05pm - 3:45pm UTC)
CCIB - Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona - P1 - Room 133/134
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community Women of OpenStack
Aimee Ukasick
Open Source Lead
From 1997-2016, Aimee developed desktop, web-enabled, and mobile applications in Smalltalk, C#, VB.NET, Objective-C, and Java. In March of 2016, she plunged head first into the world of Python and OpenStack, contributing patches to Murano, Cinder, and Congress while helping to lead a team at AT&T comprised mainly of recent college graduates. Aimee currently contributes to both OpenStack and... FULL PROFILE
Lana Brindley
OpenStack Documentation PTL
Lana Brindley has several university degrees, a few of which are even relevant to her field. She has has been playing and working with technology since she discovered the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game in the 80's. Eventually, she worked out a way to get paid for her two passions – writing and playing with gadgetry – and has been a technical writer ever since.... FULL PROFILE
Steve Martinelli
IBM
Steve Martinelli is a contributor to the OpenStack project, specifically focused on its Identity, Authentication and Authorization. He has served as the Project Team Lead for the Keystone project, OpenStack's Identity service. He primarily focuses on enabling Keystone, to better integrate into enterprise environments. Steve was responsible for adding Federated Identity and OAuth support to... FULL PROFILE
Ifat Afek
Nokia Cloudband, System Architect
Ifat Afek is a System Architect in Nokia CloudBand, and the PTL of the Vitrage project - OpenStack RCA service for organizing, analyzing and visualizing OpenStack Alarms and Events. In her role, she has lead the Vitrage effort from day one towards its acceptance into the Big Tent six months later. She now focuses on Vitrage productization and the design of new features for Stein.   FULL PROFILE
Jessica Murillo
IBM
I am known for: Open source development, Cloud, Open Stack, and IBM Systems. Jessica Murillo is the Vice President of Systems Strategy at IBM. She collaborates with our clients and across IBM to define and deliver infrastructure that is cognitive at our core and enables the world's enterprise cloud platforms. In previous roles, Jessica was the Vice President of Cloud and OpenStack Development... FULL PROFILE