 Okay, so I am Fatima Khalid. I study computer engineering. I am in the senior year. I'll be graduating by July. I have interned for OpenStack throughout RICI last summer from from May to August and then I worked on storyboard project and Hi, I'm Gettika and I work for Red Hat and I started my career in open source with OpenStack back in 2015 and I was also an outreach intern and today we all would be talking we both would be talking about Open Source and diversity and how is it affecting and our journey in OpenStack so far? So diversity is mainly adding a variety of our variables to our equation. So how it works in workforces, it works in the way that we need to add people from different backgrounds to our work force and our teams and this is mainly happening in open source and corporates and there is why is that really important with the open source with the software products because software products are mainly used by people from international internationally. So we need it to be adaptable and be supported for people from different backgrounds. That's why including people from different backgrounds working on these products makes them having various solutions that fits these people from different backgrounds as users as well. So having people from different backgrounds doesn't only help these underrepresented groups. It also helps the product themselves being more adaptable and more user-friendly. So that's what came when Outreach She is working on. Outreach She is mainly working on having more people involved and from different backgrounds. It started all with 2006 by Gina. They wanted more women included in the tech field and then it is developing right now. It is including more underrepresented groups. So how did I come to Outreach She? I was willing to make contributions in open source mainly because I have realized throughout my studies that open source is really important for our community. So how can we... I was willing to work it out and try to contribute and make a more good for the community itself. And then that's where I found Outreach She. And in Outreach She website I found OpenStack. And in OpenStack I have applied for Storyboard to work with and there was my mentor Kendall, Kendall Nelson, Diablo Rojo, if she's not here. She was my mentor. She helped me throughout the whole process. When I started with from the IRC, people were there, the IRC chat, people were very friendly there and helpful. And then and she was with me in the whole internship as a mentor. She was she was always available for the check-ins and was when I had obstacles that stopped me. Actually it was the first interfacing of me with the such a big scale code base that is contributed by so many people. So it was a very unique experience that I have had and it all started with this. And then I after the internship was done, I have gone on with the contributions further and further until the PTG in Denver, the last one. I have attended this one and I have I have known more about the projects of OpenStack. And then I found out about Swift and then I went contributing on that one too. Mainly this all came from Outreach She that get me to do this and got me today here in front of you and in the summit my first summit and talking giving this talk. So including people from different backgrounds gives people give them opportunity and a push to shine and rise more with their talents. So that's Outreach She what did for me and then we'll go with Getka her experience. Yeah, so I started my so I come from an electronics background and I always wanted to learn about how the entire programming works. So I found out I researched a lot and then I found out various programs. One of them was Learn ID Good which was started in 2014 by certain scholarship recipients of Anita Board Google Anita Board institution. So they what they did was the idea there was to propose a project and then they'll find your mentor they'll match you with a mentor and then that would give you an opportunity to learn and under a mentorship of somebody who already knows how this stuff works. It gave me an opportunity to learn and to at least work globally with someone beyond coming out of my like comfort zone and then how to interact with people and how to find out on various solutions for the problems which I have been facing to finish off a project and ultimately working on a real-time project. And then after the after that three month internship I thought I should advance myself and I started working in open source and I found out programs like Outreach in Google Summer of Code and eventually I came to my came to my mind and I should I should apply for these these programs and and I and I came across OpenStack and since the community is so welcoming they helped me resolve so many bugs and and then I found out a project called as Glance and the mentor who's at that time who was like Nikhil Kamawar and and he helped me a lot to find out to to work on a project which was like which could which I could understand basically he helped me find out a way from how to understand the basics and fundamentals of OpenStack and how to contribute the the entire internship was a very good learning experience for me. So and there are so many things that this this entire program provides you for example it provides your cool stipend of course and then it provides you an opportunity to travel. So I am standing in front of you talking to you in front at this summit because of because I got an opportunity from Outreach. So these all these programs are very very important for people maybe in an under presented group so who need who maybe need a little bit push of a confidence maybe or maybe a little bit of more encouragement so that they can come and showcase their talents. So after Outreach it it it's not like that in that three month internship period you are supposed to work that's all but after that I voluntarily contributed for a long time and I worked in Searchlight and I was a core reviewer for Glare for a while and I currently try to give back the community by organizing local meetups in India itself and help newcomers come to OpenStack and try try getting across the barriers of the initial starting process of initially setting up all the process and hence I find very happiness in that at least and the lessons that I've learned I've gotten such so much international exposure and like working on a real-time development and how to communicate with so many people from various backgrounds and making them understand making myself understand how to make how to reach out to the needs of the project and all and eventually it opened a lot of opportunities doors of opportunities for me currently I me being at Red Hat is the outcome of that opportunity that I grasped so that's I think that's something everyone can make use of and if we all can everybody comes together and gives back to community a little bit I think there are so many people still there who can get a push and then they can they can they can showcase their talent and maybe that's a small opportunity they are like looking for that's all that's all from her side thank you thank you very much if you have any questions about about outweaching there will be out there thank you very much