<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Hi All,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">As most of you know we have a continuous effort to help newcomers to join our community by organizing and holding Upstream contribution trainings before every OpenStack Summit.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">The training [1][2] is a 1.5 - 2 days long hands-on course focusing on the first steps of becoming an active OpenStack contributor. We are continuously working on improving and evolving the training material putting more and more emphasis on interactions between the participants and hands-on exercises.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">The training, just like everything else in OpenStack, is community effort. The people who put together the material and who come to the trainings to teach, coach and mentor the new contributors are active members of our community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">In preparation for the Boston Summit and also the upcoming PTG in Atlanta we are looking for coaches and mentors to help us making the training an even better experience for both who hold and who attend them.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">If you are interested in helping us improving the training content or resources that we are using and/or helping out as a mentor on any of the upcoming trainings please reach out to me (IRC: ildikov on Freenode, mail: <span style="color: #e4af0a" class=""><a href="mailto:ildiko@openstack.org" class="">ildiko@openstack.org</a></span>) or Kendall Nelson (IRC: diablo_rojo on Freenode, mail: <span style="color: #e4af0a" class=""><a href="mailto:knelson@openstack.org" class="">knelson@openstack.org</a></span>) or simply reply to this mail thread and let’s meet on the upcoming PTG! :)</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Thanks and Best Regards,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Ildikó</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="color: #454545" class="">[1] <span style="color: #e4af0a" class=""><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/" class="">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</a></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(228, 175, 10);" class=""><span style="color: #454545" class="">[2] <span style="color: #e4af0a" class=""><a href="http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-upstream-training-revamp/" class="">http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-upstream-training-revamp/</a></span></span></div></body></html>