Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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OpenStack Mentoring: The Ninja Becomes the Sensei

In many martial arts, the way to progress beyond a black belt is to teach others, and thereby give back to the art and become a leader in the process. It is one thing to learn something for yourself; it is quite another to teach it to someone else. So it is with OpenStack. You’ve been building skills and connections along your OpenStack journey. Why not progress from OpenStack ninja to sensei? OpenStack mentoring is relatively new (it started just before the Austin Summit), and provides a great way to build the OpenStack community, help newcomers on their journey, and build leaders in the process. The OpenStack mentoring program is sponsored by Women of OpenStack.

 

Come join us for a panel discussion on the benefits of OpenStack mentoring featuring the program coordinator and past and present mentor/mentee pairs.

 


What can I expect to learn?

Come join us for a panel discussion on the benefits of OpenStack mentoring featuring the program coordinator and past and present mentor/mentee pairs.

Thursday, May 11, 9:50am-10:30am (1:50pm - 2:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
IBM
Emily has been working on IBM mainframe virtualization for 10 years, specializing in functional test, systems management and CPU virtualization.  She contributes to the OpenStack Tempest project and writes the occasional blog on OpenStack.  She has attended summits since Kilo and given Brown Bag talks and webcasts and a summit session on IBM z/VM and OpenStack.  She's also... FULL PROFILE
Technical Leader, Cisco
Anne McCormick is a Technical Leader at Cisco, and has been busy incorporating Cisco technology into OpenStack platforms. She is a member of Women of OpenStack, and has attended the past 5 summits - Barcelona was her favorite! The Boston area is her home base. When Anne isn’t spending time “in the cloud,” she prides herself on being a half-ninja (blue belt), an occasional... FULL PROFILE
Member Tech Staff
Trevor is a software developer at AT&T where he spent a year and a half contributing to trove and neutron upstream. He has been the meetup user group organizer for St. Louis since March of 2017. Now he is working with AT&T's CI/CD and enhancing the framework to utilize more upstream QA projects. FULL PROFILE
Verizon
Amrith is a fellow in Verizon's cloud team that develops and operates the Verizon Cloud Platform (VCP), focusing on OpenStack and other open source activities, Database-as-a-Service for OpenStack, and working with application owners migrating workloads onto VCP. He has been involved with OpenStack for several years and has been the PTL of the Trove (DBaaS) project for multiple releases. Before... FULL PROFILE