Sydney
November 6-8, 2017

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Why are you not a mentor in the OpenStack community yet?

The OpenStack community is huge and very welcoming to new members. All of us, that as of today, can claim as being experienced OpenStack developers, were newbies once. In this panel we are going to share our experiences as learners in the OpenStack community and today, as mentors. We are going to discuss where people seem to struggle the most and what can we do to help overcome this difficulties. We are also going to talk about mentoring/internship opportunities such as the Outreachy program, that sponsors interns to contribute in several open source projects, including OpenStack.


What can I expect to learn?

We expect people to understand the difficulties that newcomers have on open source projects like OpenStack and motivate more experienced developers to mentor (officially or unofficially) in order to facilitate the learning experience and make new contributors get up to speed as fast as possible. It is also expected to motivate newcomers to become mentors/leaders in the OpenStack community one day.

We are going to discuss where people seem to struggle the most and what can we do to help overcome this difficulties. We are also going to talk about mentoring/internship opportunities such as the Outreachy program, that sponsors interns to contribute in several open source projects, including OpenStack.

Wednesday, November 8, 1:50pm-2:30pm (2:50am - 3:30am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Staff Software Engineer
Rodrigo received a MSc in Computer Science/Distributed Systems by the Federal University of Campina Grande - Brazil, in 2014. He works with OpenStack since 2014 and currently holds several responsibilities upstream, such as a core team member of the OpenStack Identity Service (keystone) and the Oslo.policy library, QA liaison for keystone and also as a mentor in the Outreachy program. FULL PROFILE
Software Engineer
Raildo Mascena is a Software Engineer at Red Hat and with almost 4 years of experience with OpenStack and Open Source and current OpenStack Mentor in the Outreachy Program. FULL PROFILE
Sahara PTL, Software Engineer
Telles Nobrega has an MSc in Computer Science/Distributed Systems by the Federal University of Campina Grande - Brazil. Currently working as a software engineer at Red Hat, upstream contributor, Project Technical Lead of Sahara. Telles Nobrega has been contributing to OpenStack since IceHouse release with a special focus on the Sahara project but also worked on Keystone, Trove, and Nova. FULL PROFILE