Open Stack

So, I am brand spankin' new-- with the exception of my attendance at Paris.
My goal for Tokyo was to NOT go. I have other projects in other communities
where I am the PTL. For example, in OPNFV, I am the #3 committer as of this
morning (http://projects.bitergia.com/opnfv/browser/scm.html). As you can
see, we also use Bitergia for such stats.

I was absolutely blown away in Tokyo. And I attribute this 100% to WOO. It
helped that I also had a great mentor in Rocky.

I am a developer with 21+ years in open source, but mostly working with
kernel file systems and protocol stacks. My python skills are beyond rusty.
But they're there. I mostly work these days in C, C++, bash, and java. But
my skills and experience go way beyond these languages. These are just the
current ones I am using. If I don't use them, I tend to forget stuff and
have to Google a lot. But I expect my python will ramp back up by the next
summit.

I currently have two projects that are intercepting OpenStack-- one adds a
Neutron/ML2 plugin for ONOS, and the other introduces API extensions to
Nova in support of Cloudlets (Edge Computing Offload).

It is really difficult, as I was just telling someone this morning, to be a
spectator participant in OpenStack. Everything moves too fast and the face
to face interaction seems pretty critical. This is not the easiest thing if
you happen to be highly introverted and one to not really like crowds or
public gatherings.

So, I am still no one special in OpenStack. But I am keenly interested in
Nova. In NFV, where I was an editor for the Compute Domain portion of the
Infrastructure WG standards, I called out an issue with respect to
obtaining and using "Utilization" info to affect optimal provisioning. This
was back in 2013. And from the meetings and discussions last week, it
sounds like I wasn't far off. With that, I've been encouraged to look at
the Nova scheduler to see if there are improvements to be made.

Anyway, if it weren't for the diversity emphasis making me feel so welcome,
I wouldn't be resolved to become a contributor in the upcoming releases.

I hope that this group has had similar positive impact on others as well.

Thank you all for the help, support, and encouragement.

Best,

Ash

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Foley, Emma L <emma.l.foley at intel.com>
wrote:

> I agree, while there was a record number of women attendees , I was
> disappointed by the low number of women technical contributors! At least
> 50% of the women I met were in non-technical roles.
>
> I did meet some great people there, but I was expecting many more female
> ATCs, when there was a big fuss about the large number of women attending.
>
> Regards,
> Emma
>
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:30:08 +0000
> From: Nithya Ruff <Nithya.Ruff at sandisk.com>
> To: "Barrett, Carol L" <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>, Amy Marrich
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> women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org"
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> I would like to suggest an agenda item for next week's meeting .  When I
> retweeted the Women of OpenStack picture, I got a number of questions on
> how many of the women in OpenStack are developers contributing code.  They
> want role models in the community.
>  Bitergia is a company that OpenStack foundation uses to create the stats
> behind "the state of OpenStack".  Why not work with them on getting more
> information on women contributing patches to the various projects.     I
> would like to suggest we discuss this next time.
>
> Beth, Carol and Jessica - thanks again for your leadership and all the
> work that the foundation does - Claire and others to make this a thriving
> community.
>
> Thank You,
> Nithya A. Ruff,  Director, SanDisk Open Source Strategy Office
> WIN Board Member
> SanDisk Corporation
> 951 SanDisk Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035
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> Nithya.Ruff at SanDisk.com<mailto:Nithya.Ruff at SanDisk.com>        Twitter:
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