Long Term Mentoring - Keeping the party going!
Mentoring has always been a big part of the OpenStack Community and as the community has changed, so has our mentoring program. Historically, the Women of OpenStack have owned and run the mentoring program that our community offered to newcomers. The new cohort model- that lives under the Diversity & Inclusion WG- provides a lightweight structure for mentors while maximizing the number of mentees we can help at any given time.
So what does this mean for you? We need volunteers to help mentor the cohorts and stir conversation. We need active mentees who are looking to grow their careers, their skill sets and find their place in the OpenStack Community. We also welcome input and help with continually evolving what this program should look like, what goals we have cohorts for, recruiting mentors and mentees- and continuing to support the program into the future!
Tuesday, November 13, 4:20pm-5:00pm (3:20pm - 4:00pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Red Hat, Inc., Principal Technical Marketing Manager
Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager. Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and a Linux System Engineer on the Platform Engineering Cloud Operations team at Rackspace. She... FULL PROFILE
Technical Evangelist
Ell Marquez has been part of the open-source family for a few years now. In this time, she has found the support needed from her mentorship relationships to grow from a Linux Administrator to an OpenStack technical trainer at Rackspace. Recently, she took the leap to join Linux Academy as a technical evangelist. FULL PROFILE
Sr Software Engineer
Jill is a Software Engineer working on the TripleO deployment framework. Formerly a cloud SRE supporting enterprise and telco deployments, she's brought her expansive cloud operations knowledge to Red Hat where she's working to improve the operator experience with TripleO. She also co-manages the OpenStack mentoring program, overseeing the 2018 program relauch. FULL PROFILE