<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI.<div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The OpenStack Foundation is delivering a training program to accelerate the speed at which new OpenStack developers are successful at integrating their own roadmap into that of the OpenStack project. If you’re a new OpenStack contributor or plan on becoming one soon, you should sign up for the next </span><a href="http://openstackupstream.eventbrite.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(188, 21, 24); text-decoration: none; line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">OpenStack Upstream Training in Atlanta, May 10-11</a><span style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">. Participation is strongly advised also for first time participants to OpenStack Design Summit.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(83, 83, 83); line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">OpenStack Foundation partnered with Upstream University to <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Training" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(188, 21, 24); text-decoration: none; ">train new OpenStack developers and documentation writers</a> to ensure their bug fix or feature is accepted in the OpenStack project in a minimum amount of time. Students are required to work on real-life bug fixes or new features during two days of real-life classes and online mentoring, until the work is accepted by OpenStack. The <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Training/Info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(188, 21, 24); text-decoration: none; ">live two-day class</a> teaches them to navigate the intricacies of the project’s technical tools and social interactions. In followup sessions, the students benefit from individual online sessions to help them resolve any remaining problems they might have. Get all the <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Training/Info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(188, 21, 24); text-decoration: none; ">details on the wiki</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(83, 83, 83); line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Enrolment for the training session in Atlanta is now open: register and reserve your <strong>free</strong> seat for <a href="http://openstackupstream.eventbrite.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(188, 21, 24); text-decoration: none; ">OpenStack Upstream Training in Atlanta, May 10-11.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(83, 83, 83); line-height: 18.001798629760742px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">See more information and to sign-up at <a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/03/openstack-upstream-training-in-atlanta/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/03/openstack-upstream-training-in-atlanta/</a>.</p></div></body></html>