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Mentoring at Summit
by Amy Marrich 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

For those of you going to summit next week I wanted to point out a few mentoring related sessions. Thanks, Amy (spotz) Sunday: 9:00 - 5:50 OpenStack Upstream Institute sponsored by Lenovo https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/summit-schedule/events/23607/o… Monday: 12:20-1:40 - Speed Mentoring Lunch sponsored by Intel - RSVP required https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/summit-schedule/events/23757/r… Tuesday: 4:20 - 5:00 - Welcoming New Contributors State of the Union https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/summit-schedule/events/23659/w… Wednesday: 10:50-11:30 - Diversity WG BoF - looking for help with the Mentoring Program https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/summit-schedule/events/23745/d…

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Re: [Openstack-mentoring] [tc] The future of the "Help most needed" list
by Jill Rouleau 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

+ openstack-mentoringOn Thu, 2019-01-31 at 11:45 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The "Help most needed" list[1] was created by the Technical Committee > to > clearly describe areas of the OpenStack open source project which > were > in the most need of urgent help. This was done partly to facilitate > communications with corporate sponsors and engineering managers, and > be > able to point them to an official statement of need from "the > project". > > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/help-most- > needed.html TIL - will start sharing this with our mentees when they sign up. > This list encounters two issues. First it's hard to limit entries: a > lot > of projects teams, SIGs and other forms of working groups could use > extra help. But more importantly, this list has had a very limited > impact -- new contributors did not exactly magically show up in the > areas we designated as in most need of help. > > When we raised that topic (again) at a Board+TC meeting, a suggestion > was made that we should turn the list more into a "job description" > style that would make it more palatable to the corporate world. I > fear > that would not really solve the underlying issue (which is that at > our > stage of the hype curve, no organization really has spare > contributors > to throw at random hard problems). > > So I wonder if we should not reframe the list and make it less "this > team needs help" and more "I offer peer-mentoring in this team". A > list > of contributor internships offers, rather than a call for corporate > help > in the dark. I feel like that would be more of a win-win offer, and > more > likely to appeal to students, or OpenStack users trying to contribute > back. We've got a list of folks now who have volunteered to be mentors for various topics but we've struggled to get mentees and mentors engaged with each other and the program. There seems to be a hurdle between "I need/want to help" and active participation. A list of "this team needs this specific help" might actually be beneficial to getting people active, whereas I don't know that we'd gain much from another list of people who are generally open to helping (as much as that willingness to help is appreciated). > > Proper 1:1 mentoring takes a lot of time, and I'm not underestimating > that. Only people that are ready to dedicate mentoring time should > show > up on this new "list"... which is why it should really list > identified > individuals rather than anonymous teams. It should also probably be > one-off offers -- once taken, the offer should probably go off the > list. > Thoughts on that? Do you think reframing help-needed as > mentoring-offered could help? Do you have alternate suggestions? Hopefully some of the folks who have signed up for the cohort mentoring program can share their thoughts here. -jill

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Thanks for the sessions
by Hamid Rasool 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hi Mentors, Thanks all of your time and efforts to make the mentorship program work! Hoping to stay in touch with you all and keep you busy! :) Regards, Hamid IRC: shrasool

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OpenStack Diversity and Inclusion Survey
by Amy Marrich 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

The Diversity and Inclusion WG is still looking for your assistance in reaching and including data from as many members of our community as possible. We revised the Diversity Survey that was originally distributed to the Community in the Fall of 2015 and reached out in August with our new survey. We are looking to update our view of the OpenStack community and it's diversity. We are pleased to be working with members of the CHAOSS project who have signed confidentiality agreements in order to assist us in the following ways: 1) Assistance in analyzing the results 2) And feeding the results into the CHAOSS software and metrics development work so that we can help other Open Source projects Please take the time to fill out the survey and share it with others in the community. The survey can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OpenStackDiversity Thank you for assisting us in this important task! Please feel free to reach out to me via email, in Berlin, or to myself or any WG member in #openstack-diversity! Amy Marrich (spotz) Diversity and Inclusion Working Group Chair

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PTG Meetup
by Jill Rouleau 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hey folks, Will any of y'all be attending PTG next week? Would you be interested in a mentoring meetup over lunch one day, maybe Monday or Tuesday? Cheers, Jill

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[all] What does mentoring mean to you?
by Jill Rouleau 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hey everyone, Ell has been blogging about her learning experiences for Linux Academy. These posts are really great, a good place to start is: https://linuxacademy.com/blog/docker/its-okay-to-be-new/ It got me thinking, mentoring means lots of different things to different people. For me, I didn't actually have any mentors early on in my career, it was a very solitary and often frustrating learning process. Those kinds of relationships came along much later and it was striking how much I got out of them and how much they would have helped if I had access to that kind of support and encouragement much earlier. It's made the mentoring relationships I have now that much more appreciated and important. So I got involved in mentoring initially through my local Linux Users Group, and now through the OpenStack community, because I'd like to help make it so that no one else has to be alone like that in their journey. It can be really hard to make that first connection, and to reach out and say "hey I could use some help". Luckily we have a really excellent community with a lot of different experiences and skills and backgrounds here in the OpenStack world, and you've all already taken that first step in saying "I want to be a part of mentoring!". So whether you're a mentor, a mentee, or both, I'd like to ask: What does mentoring mean to you? What do you hope to get out of a mentoring relationship? Cheers, Jill

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[all] Red Hat Learning Community
by Jill Rouleau 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Hi all, Disclaimer: Yes I work for Red Hat. :) I thought this was a really cool thing that might be of interest to our mentoring community though, and wanted to share. Cheers, Jill We are excited to share a new Red Hat opportunity with you. Whether you are a veteran in the OpenStack community or just getting started the Red Hat Learning Community will be a great place for you to engage with other Red Hat technology users, instructors, and employees. Post questions on the discussion boards, respond with your experiences, network with peers, and earn badges along the way for your engagement. You will also have access to updates and some training content as a member. This will be a unique opportunity to stay connected to other Red Hat enthusiasts and share your experiences. Your continued feedback will help drive what the Red Hat Learning Community looks like. Sign up today[0] to be one of our founding members! [0] https://www.redhat.com/en/engage/redh at-learning-community-20180410?sc_cid=701f2000000tvkqAAA

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[openstack-mentoring][first-upgrade]Advice for Openstack upgrade
by Cecilia Di Maulo 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hi! I'm Cecilia. I've just arrived in the professional world and in the Openstack world. My first mission is about upgrading a 3 compute nodes and 3 infra nodes, from Newton 14.2.8 to at least Queens. If you have any piece of advice on what I should probably not forget to do, or what could facilitate this task, I am all ears out ! Have a great day! Cecilia

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[first-patch][first-talk] Mentor James Hebden (jhebden)
by James Hebden 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi Everyone, I work over at Red Hat doing security work on OpenStack, primarily on Neutron and our SDN/NFV platforms. I'm most experienced with the networking related areas of OpenStack but am happy to help with general knowledge sharing and workflow mentoring! Feel free to push any questions about OpenStack networking out to the list and I'll do my best to assist, I'm based in NSW, Australia, which fluctuates between UTC+10 and UTC+11 based on DST. I'm on IRC as jhebden during core Australian business hours and often in the evenings, so feel free to reach out. Best Regards James

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[first-patch] Mentor Eric Fried
by Eric Fried 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

Howdy. I'm Eric Fried (rhymes with "feed"). In IRC I'm efried, or fried_rice on Fridays (it's our version of Hawaiian shirt day). You can find me in #openstack-nova (I'm a core reviewer on the Nova project), #openstack-placement (...who does a lot of work related to the Placement service), #openstack-powervm (...and gets a paycheck from IBM to make all of that work on PowerVM), as well as the shiny new #openstack-mentoring channel. I'm in Central Texas, UTC-6 except when DST is being stupid, and am generally online M-F 0730-1730 in my time zone. I joined this mentoring program to help new folks learn and understand the culture around reviewing and/or proposing patches. There's a lot to it that you can't read in the docs, and just like any new culture, it can be frustrating and discouraging until you get the hang of it. My mission is to ease your path through this acclimatization process so you can become a productive contributor who stays with us for the long term. I look forward to working with you. -Eric .

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