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Ash

This is very good to hear.    One of the things that we did discuss in our breakout group during the Women’s breakfast is to profile and talk about various contributors – technical and otherwise to show the roles women are playing and the impact they are making on OpenStack.   Also having a baseline on projects and seeing how many ATCs, PTLs etc. will go a long way to both highlight as well as have a goal in terms of where we need to go.   Something else to discuss at the next meeting.

Thank You,
Nithya A. Ruff,  Director, SanDisk Open Source Strategy Office
WIN Board Member
SanDisk Corporation
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From: Ashlee [mailto:ashlee at wildernessvoice.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 6:46 AM
To: Foley, Emma L
Cc: women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Women-of-openstack] Meeting today

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<mailto: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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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
T: + (408-801-7068<tel:%28408-801-7068>)| M: + (510-378-3159<tel:%28510-378-3159>)
Nithya.Ruff at SanDisk.com<mailto:Nithya.Ruff at SanDisk.com<mailto:Nithya.Ruff at SanDisk.com>>        Twitter: @nithyaruff<https://twitter.com/nithyaruff>

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