Boston
May 8-11, 2017

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Non-Native English Speakers in the OpenStack Community: A True Story
How to Contribute

The primary language of most open source projects is English, but open source users and contributors span the globe. Non-native speakers face many communication challenges when participating in the ecosystem. In this talk, as non-native English speakers and contributors to OpenStack projects and its community, we will share our experiences and some best practices for coping as and including non-native speakers in your project.This talk will include:

  • Common issues for non-native English speakers
  • Tips for avoiding and resolving these issues
  • Suggestions for effective communication

What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn about what is the challenges of non-native English speakers and how we overcome them. It is useful for many contributors because there is a lot of non-native English speakers now in the OpenStack community which is so big.

Wednesday, May 10, 11:00am-11:10am (3:00pm - 3:10pm UTC)
Hynes Convention Center - Level Two - MR 206
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Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Community Upstream
Masayuki Igawa
RedHat, Senior Software Maintenance Engineer
Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 15 years on a wide range of software projects, and woking at Red Hat, developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is an OpenStack Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health core member. FULL PROFILE
Samuel de Medeiros Queiroz
Cloud Technology Strategist
Samuel is a Cloud Technology Strategist at Oi, where he helps educating about OpenStack and defining the go-to-market strategies for the new cloud products. He has been involved in the community since 2013 and enjoys helping newcomers, besides giving talks for spreading OpenStack awareness in Brazil. FULL PROFILE
Dong Ma
DevOps Engineer
Dong Ma is a DevOps Engineer of VEXXHOST. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Liberty release, focusing on Jenkins, OpenStackCI and QA. He has previously been a speaker at Open Mainframe Summit, OpenStack Summit, LCA2017, LinuxCon Japan, FOSSCON and the other open source conference.  FULL PROFILE