<div dir="ltr">Jessica,<div> 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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again and I'm also looking forward to getting everyones input on the conversation.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Jessica Murillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jessicak@us.ibm.com" target="_blank">jessicak@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">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: </font><a href="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" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Valerie Aurora</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif">, Nina Goradia, and </font><a href="https://twitter.com/madhuramaskasky" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Madhura Maskasky</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> 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: </font><a href="http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-tech-communication-leadership-and-mentors" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><u>http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-get-more-women-involved-in-tech-communication-leadership-and-mentors</u></font></a><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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: </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">1. Developing women leaders</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">2. Increasing the visibility of women in the OpenStack community</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">3. Mentorship</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">4. Building a strong communications channel for the Women of OpenStack</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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: </font><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu_0EperGdXIQifmjHiNVuB2RJb-5bVJkB9oRT-ExVw/edit#gid=0" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu_0EperGdXIQifmjHiNVuB2RJb-5bVJkB9oRT-ExVw/edit#gid=0</font></a><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Let me know if you have any questions, I am definitely looking forward to continuing the conversation ... </font><br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Jessica Murillo<br>
Vice President, Strategy<br>
IBM Systems <br>
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