Women of OpenStack
Welcome to the Women of OpenStack wiki page!
Contents
Join the discussion!
- Subscribe to the Mailing List
- Join the LinkedIn group
- If you're an IRC user, join #openstack-women.
Interested in Mentoring?
Check here for more information: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mentors
Work Group Meeting information
The Women of OpenStack meet every 2 weeks (odd weeks) at 2000 UTC or 1 PM Pacific; 4 PM Eastern - to find your correct time use http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Next Meeting | Monday, May 1, 2017 2000 UTC Dial In: 1-203-277-8157 or 866-619-0383 Participant: 7217256# Leader 4018# |
Current Meeting Etherpad | https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/WOS_05_01_17 |
Meeting Leader and Agenda Tracker - Pls signup to lead an upcoming meeting! | https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/WOS_Agenda_Tracker |
Archive Meeting Notes | https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/WOS_Meeting_Archives |
WOO Initiatives
Identified Challenges & Suggested Solutions
Sign up to volunteer here!
(takeaways from the May 2015 Vancouver Summit)
Group | Challenge | Suggested Next Steps |
---|---|---|
1 | Need more women PTLs and need to support women who want to grow as technical contributors | Find ways to support women to be recognized as technical leaders. Example: travel funding for women to attend OpenStack summits |
2 | Not enough women in the OpenStack community | Attract women to the OpenStack community and support them to remain active in the community. Example: mentorship of women to achieve technical leadership roles |
3 | Women need support and practice to more confidently communicate in meetings or in larger groups | Webinar on how to participate more effectively in meetings. Example: role play meeting scenarios, help women gain confidence and practice to ask questions during a Tokyo summit talk |
4 | Need to support higher inclusion of women in the OpenStack community | Workshop to develop leadership soft skills, encourage inclusion, recognize regional gaps in communication, celebrate the successes of women in the OpenStack community |
5 | Need women leaders to be more visible in the OpenStack main tent sessions | Have a woman keynote speaker, more women participate in panel discussions. Support women with speaker training and creating a pipeline of speaking opportunities for them. |
6 | Need a supportive and interactive environment for women to come together and support one another with the OpenStack community | Create a private IRC channel for the Women of OpenStack, opportunities to seek and find mentors more naturally based on technology and areas of interest |
7 | Need a platform to encourage informal mentoring and networking | Reward and recognize mentorship as a key skill that is important as other technical skills |
Past & Current WOO Networking Events
- Portland Summit April, 2013: Networking Breakfast
- Hong Kong Summit November 2013: Boat Outing
- Atlanta Summit, May 2014: Happy Hour
- Paris Summit November 2014: Networking evening event and breakfast working session
- Vancouver Summit May 2015: Networking events and breakfast working sessions
- Austin Summit Planning meeting notes:
Past Speaking Sessions
Portland Summit (April 2013):
Paris Summit (November 2014):
Vancouver Summit (May 2015):
Tokyo Summit (October 2015)
Barcelona Summit (October 2016)
WOO Coverage
- Women of OpenStack Webinar: "How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit Proposal.
- Open Mic Series
Read more about other Projects and Events by Women of OpenStack
- OpenStack Blog
- OpenSource.com: "The Women of OpenStack talk outreach, education, and mentoring" by Anne Gentle
- OpenStack Superuser: "New to OpenStack? Why it pays to jump right in" with Megan Rosetti
Other Women and Diversity Groups
Women of OpenStack Directory
Feel free to add yourself to the list. For your Contact info, use whatever you're most comfortable with— LinkedIn, Launchpad profile page, IRC handle, etc.
Name | Contact | Role | Area(s) of Interest | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Poonam Yadav | IRC: pyadav [1] |
Technical | OpenStack Core projects | |
Jane Example Stacker | IRC: JaneS |
Developer | Nova, Neutron | |
Malini Bhandaru | IRC: malini1 malini dot k dot bhandaru at intel dot com |
Architect & Manager - Intel Open Source Technology Center | Security, Advanced Network Services, Glance, Keystone | |
Lana Brindley | IRC: loquacities |
Docs Core & Rackspace Docs | All projects | |
Anne Gentle | IRC: annegentle |
Technical Committee, API WG, Docs | All projects | |
Karin Levenstein | IRC: KLevenstein | Docs Writer (Information Developer) Rackspace Docs |
OpenStack Core projects | |
Alexandra Settle | IRC: asettle |
Docs PTL, Docs Writer (Information Developer) | OpenStack Core projects | |
Sayali Lunkad | IRC: sayalilunkad |
training-guides core | training-guides, horizon | |
Irena Berezovsky | IRC: irenab |
Architect | neutron, nova, SDN, NFV | |
Rossella Sblendido | IRC: rossella_s |
Software Engineer | Neutron | |
Shilla Saebi | IRC: ShillaSaebi |
Docs Core/OpenStack Ops Engineer at Comcast | All projects | |
Megan Rossetti | IRC: MeganR |
PM , training-guides, Win the Enterprise | All projects | |
Samta Rangare | IRC: sam srangare at mvista dot com |
Software Engineer | Neutron, Nova, Ceilometer, Congress | |
Victoria Martínez de la Cruz | IRC: vkmc |
Software Developer | All projects | |
Sandhya Dasu | IRC: sadasu sadasu at cisco dot com |
Developer | Neutron, NFV | |
Emily Hugenbruch | IRC: ekhugen |
Software Engineer | Nova, Tempest | |
Catherine Richardson | catherine.richardson@rackspace.com | Information Developer Rackspace DevDocs |
Rackspace API documentation | |
Anne McCormick | IRC: annemccormick |
Software Engineer | Neutron | |
Kathy Cacciatore | kathyc@openstack.org | Consulting Marketing Manager, OpenStack Foundation | Enterprise Marketing | |
Priti Desai | priti_desai@symantec.com | OpenStack Evangelista | OpenStack Doc, Keystone, OSSG | |
Beth Cohen | bfcohen@luthcomputer.com LinkedIn Profile |
Cloud Technologist | OpenStack Doc, Cloud Architectures | |
Aysy Anne Duarte | IRC: aysyd |
Software Engineer | INFRA/CI | |
Nisha Agarwal | IRC: Nisha | Software Engineer | ironic, nova | |
Summer Long | IRCː slong | Software Engineer | security | |
Tamara Johnston | IRC: TamaraJ |
Senior Manager, Cloud Services | OpenStack Doc | |
Val Wanjura | IRCː arcee2 | Technical Operations Manager | All Projects | |
Amy Marrich | IRC: spotz |
Linux Systems Engineer | OSA, Heat, Barbican, Community | |
Carol Barrett | IRC: carolbarrett | Data Center Software Planner | Community | |
Shaifali Agrawal | IRC: exploreshaifali |
Individual Contributor, Software Engineer | All Projects | |
Darla Ahlert | IRC: alraddarla |
Software Engineer | All Projects | |
Margaret Chiosi | IRC: mchiosi |
Network Architect | All Projects | |
Holly Bazemore | IRC: cloudhollyb |
Director of Elastic Cloud Strategy and Deployments at Comcast | All projects | |
K Rain Leander | IRC: leanderthal |
Software Engineer | TripleO | |
Aimee Ukasick | IRC: aimeeU aimeeu.opensource at gee mail dot com |
Open Source Lead | Congress, Tacker, Community; OPNFV projects | |
Marcela Bonell | IRC: mbonell |
Cloud Software Engineer | Developer's Experience (First App, SDK's, Heat, Murano, API, Documentation) | |
Kayla Fromme | LinkedIn |
AT&T Technical Director | All Projects | |
Kendall Nelson | IRC: diablo_rojo kjnelson@us.ibm.com |
Software Engineer | Cinder & os-brick | |
Elise Eiden | LinkedIn |
Sr. Specialist Applications Developer | All Projects | |
Maria Zlatkova | IRC: mzlatkova |
Docs Core/Technical Writer at Mirantis | All Projects | |
Olga Gusarenko | IRC: ogusarenko |
Docs Core & Mirantis OpenStack docs | OpenStack docs, OpenStack core projects' docs | |
Oena Logvinova | IRC: ologvinova | Docs Core & Mirantis OpenStack docs | All projects | |
Anusha Ramineni | IRC: ramineni | Developer | Congress, Ironic, Tempest | |
Ifat Afek | IRC: ifat_afek | System Architect at Nokia, Vitrage PTL | Vitrage | |
Khanak Nangia | IRC: knangia |
Cloud Software Engineer - Intel | Security, Syntribos | |
Nisha Yadav | IRC: nishaYadav LinkedIn: [2] Twitter: [3] |
Independent Contributor | Keystone, OpenStack docs, Community |