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Hi Nithya,

Thanks for the poll. Here are my answers (below the questions).

Regards,
Ramamani.

From: Nithya Ruff [mailto:Nithya.Ruff at sandisk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:10 PM
To: women-of-openstack at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [Women-of-openstack] Quick poll - need your input

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.


Q: What obstacles do you think women face when getting involved in the OpenStack community?

There are strong women contributors in OpenStack and that is good news. I think the percentage is very small and there needs to be more encouragement for the rest to speak their mind, ask questions and influence decisions. I think the obstacles women face are similar anywhere in the technical world, which depend on a variety of issues:

-          Local work environment and barriers for growth

-          Access to resources

-          Individual attitudes towards challenges and risk taking.

Q: There are always a lot of debates in the OpenStack community - which one is the most important, now?

I think it should be about the rate of adoption and the future of OpenStack.

Q. Why do you believe it is important for the OpenStack community to be diverse?

Diversity is very important for an open source community as it brings varied strengths, perspectives and creativity of mind.



Thank You,
Nithya A. Ruff
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