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<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; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Use “Independent” as your affiliation. There are many contributors in the same situation, and the community appreciates input from anyone with good ideas.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Sharan Kumar M <<a href="mailto:sharan.monikantan@gmail.com">sharan.monikantan@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 10:13 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Openstack] Getting started with Dev<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I came to know about OpenStack a year back. And I have contributed to a couple of opensource projects the past few years. And now, having known about openstack a little more, l would like to contribute to OpenStack and gain more knowledge in the process.</div><div><br></div><div>I started with the getting started tasks and there is one task which says "create an openstack profile". This asks for an affiliation which I don't have. So does that mean, I am not eligible for contributions?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sharan Kumar M</div></div></span></body></html>