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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Nithya Ruff <<a href="mailto:Nithya.Ruff@sandisk.com">Nithya.Ruff@sandisk.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 2:10 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org">women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org">women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Women-of-openstack] Quick poll - need your input<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am doing an interview with the superuser magazine and want to make sure to represent the sentiments and issues we see as a group. Could you answer these 2-3 questions for me. I will aggregate and represent the answer in my Q&A. Thank
you in advance for your input and perspectives. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Q: What obstacles do you think women face when getting involved in the OpenStack community? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> I think one of the major issues is where to get started as well as how to get started. I personally haven’t experienced any bias or issues working on a project but I know a lot of the people involved in the projects I’ve worked on.</o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Q: There are always a lot of debates in the OpenStack community - which one is the most important, now?</span></p>
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<div>Where are we going both within projects and OpenStack as a whole.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Q. Why do you believe it is important for the OpenStack community to be diverse?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p>Diversity gives different viewpoints, it allows the differences in how people think and look at things to be incorporated in what we do, how we do it and why we do it. </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank You,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Nithya A. Ruff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Director, SanDisk Open Source Strategy, CTO Office
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