<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-6adcb88c-e41b-e206-6c24-dbd363dcca5d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Calling All OpenStack Mentors!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re quickly nearing the Vancouver Summit, and gearing up for another successful Speed Mentoring workshop! This workshop, now a mainstay at OpenStack Summits, is designed to provide guidance to newcomers so that they can dive in and actively engage, participate and contribute to our community. And we couldn’t do this without you—our fearless mentors!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Speed Mentoring Workshop & Lunch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Monday, May 21, 12:15 – 1:30 pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vancouver Convention Centre West, Level 2, Room 215-216</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://bit.ly/2HCGjMo" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://bit.ly/2HCGjMo</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Who should sign up?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are you excited about OpenStack and interested in sharing your career, community or technical advice and expertise with others? Contributed (code and non-code contributions welcome) to the OpenStack community for at least one year? Any mentor of any gender with a technical or non-technical background is encouraged to join us. Share your insights, inspire those new to our community, grab lunch, and pick up special mentor gifts!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How does it work?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simply </span><a href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/yrv_rocky_speed_mentoring_mentor" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sign up here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and fill in a short survey about your areas of interests and expertise. Your answers will be used to produce fun, customized baseball cards that you can use to introduce yourself to the mentees. You will be provided with mentees’ areas of interest and questions in advance to help you prepare, and we’ll meet as a team ahead of time to go over logistics and answer any questions you may have. On the day of the event, plan to arrive ~ 15 minutes before the session. During the session, you will meet with small groups of mentees in 15-minute intervals and answer their questions about how to grow in the community.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s a fast-paced event and a great way to meet new people, introduce them to the Summit and welcome them to the OpenStack community.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Be sure to </span><a href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/yrv_rocky_speed_mentoring_mentor" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sign up today</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">!</span></b><br><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amy (spotz)</span></b></div></div>