<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 class="">Hi All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m reaching out to you because we are looking for people who would like to get involved in the __activities around on boarding and the Upstream training__ we are holding before the Summits.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had a very successful training before the Barcelona Summit [1] with around 90 attendees during the one and a half days of the course. The training format orients towards a more and more __hands-on practice__ and we are looking for experienced people within the Community to help the new comers understand our processes along with the large code base we have overall and even per project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To get you more excited I’m happy to say that our mentors had a great time with the students and even they learnt new things based on the feedback so far. :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have also started to explore a modular setup for the class which makes it possible to pick up only parts of it at a time in the future. This way we hope to __bring a subset of the modules to local events__ like OpenStack Days and meet-ups around the globe to reach a broader group of possible contributors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We would like to have You on our team to support this activity and get in touch with possible new members of our Community to make it a good experience for them and for you at the same time to ensure we have people joining who understand our principles from day 1, successful with contributions and stay around after the trainings/sessions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are interested in the details on how you can get involved and help with this activity please reach out to me (<a href="mailto:ildiko@openstack.org" class="">ildiko@openstack.org</a>, IRC: ildikov) or Kendall Nelson (<a href="mailto:knelson@openstack.org" class="">knelson@openstack.org</a>, IRC: diablo_rojo). You can also check the current state of the material along with our mission statement on the training web page [2] or join our bi-weekly (even weeks) meetings [3].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks and Best Regards,</div><div class="">Ildikó</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-upstream-training-revamp/" class="">http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-upstream-training-revamp/</a> </div><div class="">[2] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/" class="">http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/</a> </div><div class="">[3] <a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Training-guides_Team_Meeting" class="">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Training-guides_Team_Meeting</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>