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Jessica,
  Thank you SO much for getting this together and the plan for Tokyo is
looking amazing!!  I would LOVE to help but I feel as if I'm on the other
side of the spectrum, meaning I'm in the beginning stages of getting my
hands into Openstack and would love to have a mentor/mentee relationship.
My company has been endorsed by Openstack as the first to use their product
for disaster recovery as a service so I feel we're on the break of
something awesome so I am having to come up to speed pretty quickly on
everything Openstack (which I am loving)!  Is there anything for the
"beginners" to help with in order to gain more knowledge or partner up with
ladies who are the experts?

Thanks again and I'm also looking forward to getting everyones input on the
conversation.

*Melissa Patterson*

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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Jessica Murillo <jessicak at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Thanks for everyone who was able to join us at the Women of OpenStack
> working session on May 19. A special thanks to our lightening talk
> speakers: Valerie Aurora
> <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5574129&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=5PuI&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1432849164634%2Ctas%3Avalerie%20aur>,
> Nina Goradia, and Madhura Maskasky <https://twitter.com/madhuramaskasky> for
> sharing their experiences and inspiring our group discussions. If you have
> not already seen the article, Allison Price from the OpenStack Foundation
> has written a great summary of working session on Superuser:
> *http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-tech-communication-leadership-and-mentors*
> <http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-tech-communication-leadership-and-mentors>
>
> After summarizing the group break out sessions there are very similar
> themes to what we discussed during our Paris Summit working session. Key
> areas of focus include:
> 1. Developing women leaders
> 2. Increasing the visibility of women in the OpenStack community
> 3. Mentorship
> 4. Building a strong communications channel for the Women of OpenStack
>
> Several of you have asked, "What's next?" That is really up to us. We've
> heard from many of you that you want the Women of OpenStack to continue to
> work together between summits to address these key issues. To help
> facilitate follow-on discussions I've included several volunteer sign up
> sheets in addition to a full group summary in this google drive doc:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu_0EperGdXIQifmjHiNVuB2RJb-5bVJkB9oRT-ExVw/edit#gid=0
>
> The goal is for each volunteer group to come together as a team to develop
> 1-2 key actions they want to accomplish leading up to the Tokyo Summit.
> There has already been some great progress and discussion on creating an
> IRC channel which was one of our communication follow-up actions. I'm
> looking forward to what this group can accomplish in the other areas as
> well.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions, I am definitely looking forward to
> continuing the conversation ...
>
> Jessica Murillo
> Vice President, Strategy
> IBM Systems
> Office Phone: 512-286-7691, T/L: 363-7691
> Mobile Phone: 512-970-8466
> jessicak at us.ibm.com
>
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