 House and I'm so excited to see so many people here at seven in the morning even though it feels like nine to me So, you know, I'm good. I'm totally good But we're here and I want to welcome everyone to the women of open-stack breakfast. This is a working breakfast We did this in Paris as well, and I want to welcome you all to the place where boats are planes and planes are boats This is an awesome venue an awesome place to be and let's start our adventure All over again as the women of open-stack women in open source We are finding our own way. We are reaching out to other organizations Python Apache cloud foundry is reaching out to us We're trying to find the way that we can find a way forward for women in open source Women in open-stack women in cloud So it's just a very exciting time, and I want us all to just sort of take this moment Look around we all made it here at seven in the morning. We're gonna make a difference. Let's get going Today, I'm gonna talk through the things we've done since Paris As well as give you an outline for how this is gonna work this morning So it's not exactly set up with an aisle in the middle So we will have to get friendly with each other don't climb over tables or anything. Don't go crazy But we'll get there. We'll get there But what have we done since Paris so we had panel discussions in Paris and now in Vancouver as well There are 19 tech talks by women this afternoon alone We are doing webinars before even the call for proposals because the open-stack summit has a very specific Way to do a proposal system a voting system and you have to grab attention early grab attention often So that is why we did the webinar Nikki Acosta Diabella and myself did a panel that was for everyone Here's how open-stack runs their call for proposals and we also broadened it If you want to do a call for proposal for any technical conference, here's a great way to do it we had a communications plan leading up to the summit and Have now the women of open-stack mailing list and so, you know One thing I like to emphasize is that it's awesome that we can all come here in person But there are plenty of women we still want to reach out to and still are reaching out to and we're giving more and more Channels between summits as well And I do always want to highlight one of my favorite programs. It was originally the GNOME outreach program for women It's now called outreach II love that name So if you are here today and have gone through the program as an intern, I want you to stand and be recognized. I See you in back come on victory Yeah, and yes Including some of our newest ones. This is so awesome. Thank you for coming They are doing amazing things even after the internship is completed Victoria turned around and did a project for Google summer of code That's where you have to find your own project and vent it yourself great job She's also showing a lot of leadership as we need more women to step into mentoring roles And as we need more women to run the outreach program for women to find the interns. She has done an amazing job Thank You Victoria awesome work. She and Cindy Perales who's another Former intern with open-stack. We're both at Grace Hopper last fall that is 8,000 women Technologists and it was an amazing conference. They got to go to dinner together. We all got together again They were basically honored at a dinner for people who came to that event Then I've recently learned like just last week that Terry you who's another former intern just got a Google scholarship So that's amazing. She's a physicist did a great job in her internship And then I also want to recognize how Anita Kuno who's one of our first interns has really stepped up and done leadership roles She actually ran the one of the elections as an election moderator and that's a really tough job So I want to recognize not only that these interns are doing amazing things during their internship But I love it that you guys are sticking around making our community stronger. Thank you for that Now I also want to talk about We have wonderful mentors we have mentors who have returned for multiple times And so while the internships a tough intense, you know Process people who are willing to mentor and then step up and mentor again Even though it takes time and you have to really think back to your early days when your eyes were fresh at open source So I really appreciate that and then you know, I love that we have the opportunity here to find each other We have a coffee Just get together for coffee tomorrow afternoon, right? So find each other find ways to help each other out in the community And I love that Cloud Foundry reached out to us to ask to our OpenStack Foundation Staff, how do you run your events exactly? There's a lot of logistics that go into just making sure the eggs are hot making sure the coffee's hot, right? That's so important and the work that they do between summits and for the summits is amazing So Claire and Allison, thank you so much for all you do. It's wonderful Okay, and I did not get it on my slide deck But I want to let you all know at the board meeting on Sunday the board agreed to put together a diversity working group That's gonna be a really big part and even in the board meeting. We said, you know There's nothing else really like this, but let's innovate Let's figure it out and so I invite you all to keep tracks on keep track on that See how you can help out see if people reach out to you help out with the diversity working group That's the name of it Okay, that's it since Paris. Oh Paris. Let's all have a moment. I love Paris So wonderful But what are we doing today? So today's goals are to inspire us all we have three lightning talks ten minutes each Then we're all gonna get together and discuss in small groups And what we want to do is bring back the small groups one take away What do you want to see with the women of OpenStack between now and Tokyo? And then we have a lot of opportunities to share all week and continue the sharing after the summit So I'm gonna go ahead and introduce our speakers today, and then we'll let them will all trade our laptops one at a time It's gonna be awesome. Actually, you guys don't even have sides All right, so we can just leave up my side awesome even better. So first of all Sorry, I didn't update the slide Valerie Aurora is here with Ada initiative, but is crystal the one speaking Okay, that's all right, that's good crystal Huff is the executive director. Thank you for coming They are gonna talk about beating imposter syndrome and I've spoken on this before so I'm really looking forward to How that works anything? Let me go through all three and then yeah, sorry Next we'll have Nina Gordia. She's a cloud architect with IBM And so how to be a strong technical leader as a woman What is you know, what are some tips there and then the third one is my heard muskaski She's gonna she's a co-founder and a VP of product at platform 9 and she is a co-founder there So she's gonna talk about how to be a successful woman in turn entrepreneur. So That's the plan We're gonna listen to the talks We're gonna discuss it in small groups. We have we have leaders Claire. What? Yes. Oh wonderful Very good. So at the end of the third talk will have people who have volunteered to be sort of like a discussion group leader Follow whoever you want into the other rooms or stay in here and that is where we're gonna In small groups talk about what we want to do between now in Tokyo Then come back. We need this all done before the keynote. I promise then we're gonna come back and share your one idea with the group Just you know little one minute. This is what we talked about. This is what we want to do That's it. All right, Valerie you're up. I'll be down here Hi everyone, I'm as you already know I'm Valerie Aurora So the overall goal of the Aida initiative just to slim slight background will go straight into imposter syndrome It's to support women in open technology and culture See I went I get the first phone We do we do this through Three main programs the first one is conference anti-harassment policies if you notice the open stack Conference code of conduct a lot of that is the product of work. We've done over the last few years Our second big event is the Aida camp on conference for women in open technology and culture We're having three more this year. I Encourage all of you to join Keep an eye on our Twitter for announcements about that Our our next big program is the ally skills workshop We believe that men should be doing a proportionate amount of work to improving open-source software for women And given that men are somewhere around ninety ninety eight percent. That's a lot of work So we teach those at conferences and at Companies and so today I'm here to talk about our final program, which is imposter syndrome training. So first Imposter syndrome is the feeling that you are not qualified to do the job that you already have or It it often includes the feeling that you're a fraud and you're going to be found out any minute now So somebody's gonna notice that you accidentally got this job, right? So I want to ask everyone if you don't mind playing along to everyone to raise their hand Thank you. This signifies nothing except that you were able to raise your hand, okay So if you think you may have imposter syndrome leave your hand up Yes, so this is a lot of incredibly amazing you can put your hands It's a lot of incredibly amazing talented women and a lot of us feel like Perhaps we are not qualified for our jobs so the imposter syndrome is is especially common in areas where you Do a lot of work privately and then you release your finished product publicly And then a whole bunch of people are invited to criticize it madly, right? So this looks like academia. It might sound familiar an open source Any kind of thing where you put what your work out there for everyone to see and they get to say mean things on the mailing list about it? strangely this produces imposter syndrome so People of all genders have imposter syndrome, but it hits women especially hard in fields that are male stereotyped So why is that? the first insight and this is I think a difference in how we talk about imposter syndrome is that You feel like an imposter because people tell you that they say you are not a programmer or when you show up to an event They ask you why you're here, or if you're a reporter or something like that, right? so An important part is that there's a stereotype it exists and it causes people to question your ability constantly And eventually that sinks in I remember writing kernel code one day and thinking it's strange that I'm not a kernel programmer But so-and-so very important person told me I wasn't So it's a it's pretty it's pretty powerful The second reason is a stereotype threat, which is an internal form of that same kind of stereotype That's the fear that you are going to fulfill the negative stereotype of women being unable to program or being too sensitive or whatever it is that People are telling you so Most people well, okay. Sorry. There's a third factor Which is that we really discourage women to display self-confidence to talk about their accomplishments To it, you know, it's called bragging right or else. It's called tooting your own horn And so it's really hard to maintain a maintain a belief in your competence when you're not allowed to talk about it And when you do people punish you right so we're saying imposter syndrome is not your fault So the training we've developed for it Take is better than the way that most people cope for cope with imposter syndrome, which is simply working way too hard Working way too hard over preparing making sure that you know the answer to every possible question is one way to make yourself feel better But it burns you out and it costs you and it helps women leave the field earlier, right? So we focus on in our imposter syndrome training first We explain where it's coming from that it's not your fault and then we go through these Simple exercises that you can do whenever imposter syndrome is starting to overcome you Or is going to be a is likely to be a threat For example when you're applying for a new job is a really common time for imposter syndrome to hit And plus you get to meet a whole bunch of other really competent women who feel the same way you do so We teach imposter syndrome at Ada camp Conferences we are teaching two public workshops in imposter syndrome training workshops in San Francisco and Sydney We will announce those soon and we're interested in teaching them at companies or universities You can contact us through any of the email addresses on our website if you're interested in learning more about that and yeah Join our mailing list or follow us on social media to learn when we announce new Ada camps a new imposter syndrome training Thank you Six minutes. Yeah, that's lightning baby awesome. All right, I'm gonna go back Actually, I might just leave it on the sea plane because I like them next with Nina Here you go Thanks, Valerie So I'm Nina Garadia and I'm gonna talk on how to grow as a technical leader And what I decided to focus on is how to make yourself heard literally Right, this is my third summit When I look back on the first two summits that I went to two things stood out, right? One is the technical sessions I went to the general technical sessions Very few women presenters and I know this was discussed at the last summit. So it is a focus area The number of brown bags sessions we have today is is great But the other thing that's jumped out at me was for the sessions that I attended Very few women actually asked questions at the end, right? Actually, I couldn't remember a single one So when you think about it, right at the end of a session, they open up the floor I didn't see a single woman walk up to the mic and ask a question, right now This is this is not scientific, right? It's just my personal observation. I'm sure that happened, right? But not in the same proportion as we are attending the summit, right part of it could be the imposter syndrome but I think part of it is also Just just the way we are but how do women we tend to work we listen Let me go off and we work right and we're really good at building one-to-one relationships So if you have a question you will reach out you will get your question answered, right? If you have ideas you will reach out to the speaker you'll reach out whoever the key person is and you will bounce your ideas off That but it's one-to-one Right, but if you want to grow as a technical leader, you have to grow your The scope of your role, right? You have to grow the context in which you're making yourself hurt the one-to-ones don't work enough at that point Right, so I'm going to start off with a slightly embarrassing story about myself, right? And in my defense, this is some time back. I had switched jobs and So I was new to the organization and it was a really exciting project and and I was really looking forward to it And you know perfect match for my skill set. So I was really confident about it I was the only one in the Midwest. I'm from the US Most of the other technical leads were out on the East Coast That wasn't the issue the issue was I was new to the team the others knew each other, right? So we had our first my first meeting I call in obviously it was a conference call Introduce myself and they were like hi and you know started off, right? And the first guy talked really good Really great ideas. I was really happy with the way it was going Another guy jumped in he took in in a slightly different direction. I was like hold on right there's an issue here But they were talking really quickly right very confidently very quick and I was waiting for a pause where I could say hey, you know I have this issue He must have like pause to take a breath I think someone else jumps in and now they're building on it, right? And so then I was like the next time this other guy took a breath. I said yes But he talked right through me right and it went on and I was and I was I was trying and I was trying and the next thing You know the moderators back on he's like great discussion. I'll summarize it. I'll sign it out and no no time's up I hadn't said a word the whole hour and I was so frustrated. It was really embarrassing Right because you'd let that conversation go in a direction that you completely didn't agree with I mean It wasn't a bad thing But and I was party to it now at the end of it You know I would have to respond to the notes that came out and said no But what about this and I'd have wasted about half an hour of that call because the next meeting We'd have to start back to what I was now having issues with it was very uncomfortable And I was so angry with myself But what do you do? I'm not one of those loud people Right, it's just not my style and and people tell you know here are things you should do there are things you do But you have to find something that works for you Right, so what I did at that point is I picked up the phone and I called the guy who sourced in the call And I said you know what I couldn't get a virgin a word and edge wise right next time Can you please pause and say Nina right? Give me the mic right just just give me some air time and and so you know took some and we worked out a mechanism And it and I think I also adapted to it right now I you know I don't worry about being polite I barge right in right, but it's not something that came to me naturally initially So looking back on it. I thought you know this this is part of issues. Sometimes we are you know, it's not like I'm shy right, but I think we all have There are times when you do doubt yourself, but even the times when you don't doubt yourself It's not that easy to get a word in Right, so we have to look at how do we make our presence felt right? If you have something to say, how can you make it? How can you give yourself the ability to make that statement because if you don't and if you end up working the back channels? You don't make your presence felt right when there are opportunities people are not going to think of you And the thing is we're in a technical industry, right? This is at its core a meritocracy Right you have to make your presence felt no one's going to come to you in an open source movement And say hey, you know what you have to talk to Nina because she's an architect and IBM it doesn't work that way Right if someone has a question If you have to build a reputation it's based on your abilities and how do people get to know about your abilities is when you talk Right and and so now if you look at it in the context of the open-stack movement, right? What does it mean to make your presence felt technically right you could go in and you could work on bug fixes But that's typically not enough because as you work on bug fixes all you're doing is getting Review comments from others right again. It's other people picking your code aside It's good to do that obviously right and it's given that if you're in this field you're good technically you want to contribute But you also have to do code reviews, right at the point of doing your code reviews take the time to explain why? Right. Why did you give a minus one? What are your suggestions, right? If you're nitpicking, right? It's okay to say you know what I know this is a net, but here's why I'm giving you a minus one, right? When they fix the code, right say thank you, right? Before you do the plus one right? attend the weekly meetings and Again, when you attend it show up make your presence felt at the beginning say I'm here right as The conversations are going even if you don't have anything to add if someone says something you you absolutely agree with plus one it Right at the end of it say good meeting or whatever and then you'll work your way up, right? You can jump in right log on to the IRC channels, right? People have questions answer it That's how you establish your expertise and people start thinking of you right and then you start expanding your role Obviously, you know do blueprints, but you're making your presence felt in the community and the nice thing is as You're working in IRC. I mean basically IRC handle people don't even know whether you're male or female Right, it's absolutely based on what you're contributing Right, so don't let it hold your back and these are these are learn skills Right adapt to whatever your personality is but the nice thing in the communities It's a little different, you know, whether you're physically in an office You're on the phone and and that's where you you kind of practice what works for your style So when you come to these meetups, it's really the the the confluence of the two, right? But you build up your presence in the community, right and then you expand your role because as you grow, right? You always look at Here's my comfort level now as as you know, you spend time and then how do you expand it, right? So as you establish your presence in whatever your subject matter expertise is right volunteer, right? Host a working group, right conduct virtual sessions, you know host a meetup Because then as you're expanding You're growing your skills. You're expanding the your your sphere of influence and you're also growing your own Leadership skills and that's how you really end up becoming a go-to person. A lot of my Growth in my career has actually been tangential, right? You volunteer for things, right? And you go there and then people get to know your name, right? And then the next thing something happens and that's where they oh, they're like, well, you know what Nina's there, right? And you're like, how did you even know me, right? But it's just you live out there, right? I mean someone's taken a recording someone's posted something and the next thing you know You're out there and that's really how you grow it. It's not anyone says, okay, this man so many years here There's your next promotion. It doesn't work that way in this open source Environment right your background has no meaning, right? It's what you bring to the table and how you make your presence felt So just remember we all have a voice make yourself heard make your presence felt. All right. Thank you Hi everyone welcome and thank you for having me here My name is Madhura Miskarski and I'm the co-founder and VP of product in sales at platform nine And for those of you who don't know platform nine, we have a very interesting way of packaging and deploying open stack You can tell that I've been working in sales for some time I started right away with a pitch of platform nine before I before I could even realize but but so today's session is not Going to be about platform nine, right today's session is not going to be about open stack In this session I'm going to take just a few minutes to kind of take a walk down the memory lane and share some of my own personal experiences It's part of my transition from being a technical leader or an engineer to having co-founded something Right and then I'm going to start I'm going to try to share some takeaways from that just based on some of my learnings So I came to this country about 13 years or so ago to do my masters in computer science I came to Stanford and When I came here in 2002 Stanford was just this completely buzzing place right all full of energy Lots of people, you know had their goal of finishing their masters and then going off and starting something of their own In strangely enough I was never one of those people right I never felt that it came naturally to me to be to be a co-founder to start something Right and I think the reason I wanted to say that is because I feel That a lot of women feel that way and I don't know if it's something about us being women but we we assumed that a number of jobs a number of a number of Leadership positions are just they don't come naturally to us, right? So I wanted to kind of kind of stress that Any who I I finished my master's at Stanford and I took a job at Oracle I was part of their core RDBMS team and I really enjoyed it for about a year or so So after that I an opportunity came up to join VMware. So I jumped on it I joined VMware spent about seven and a half years or so there as a technical leader and architect And those were some of the you know some some very satisfying times of my career. I am I learned a lot I am I met some really really talented people. I worked on some really interesting projects. So, you know, I think that everything that I learned as part of my career I learned there But then came a time around 2011 or so where I started realizing that something is not satisfying something's not right. I was I was not feeling the adventure the you know the The adrenaline rush that comes as part of working on something interesting or challenging So I figured that this is you know, I've reached a plateau of my career here and I need to change something, right? I need to take up a new challenge So I started, you know looking I started interviewing lined up a few job opportunities But none of them were satisfying. So I didn't end up accepting any of them And I was in this kind of slightly frustrated phase when I realized that Two of my co-workers who I've worked with for seven and a half years or so were in the exact same phase They were going through an exactly similar exercise And that was that was that was good for me to know that because then from that point onwards We started taking our daily lunch sessions at VMware And we converted them into these Kind of detailed Ideation sessions so we started, you know Sometimes going outside of VMware to libraries or sometimes just finding some confidence rooms, etc Just so that we could dedicate that our worth of time towards ideating Right and when we started The goal was to think of a problem a problem that interests the three of us The problem that we think is worth solving and then just just you know start brainstorming, right? Look at look for what type of solution you would build look for What is there that exists today that solves that problem? It was a very very fun exercise. We were having so much fun for me I literally started getting that that adrenaline rush that I was kind of missing out on so it was very very It was a fun journey and then one thing we started realizing is that you know? It typically happens when you're going through this ideating exercise all of us have done that is that when you first think about an idea You're going through that honeymoon phase, right? Where you're really excited about it. You think this is it You know, this is a project worth pursuing for my lifetime and then you spend about Maybe a week or so and then you find out. Oh well someone else is already doing something that you were talking about or hey This particular angle. We just never thought about it We just completely had a brain freeze or something. So so when you go past that honeymoon phase You know that idea suddenly doesn't is not as appealing anymore So what we decided to do then is to apply this kind of the the meatiness or the weight Or you know the gravity of that idea kind of strategy, right? We had if a particular idea stuck with us after About two or three months period of time Then we're going to pursue it and that's exactly what happened and you know, that's when we decided to quit VMware We did that in 2013. I Quit my job and my two co-workers who are my buddies at VMware. I'm quit their jobs as well And so that's how we started platform nine So we quit our jobs and then we opened our office in my co-worker. Sheerisha's house We took over one of his rooms and we started our office there And then we started the exercise of fundraising which is which is a pretty kind of fun and challenging journey in its own Right and in most, you know many times when you talk about fundraising people give the analogy of dating Which in hindsight is just perfect. It's just exactly that, right? It's literally a game of you know Getting enough interest in you so that you know people really start looking at you And it's a game of selling yourself to the investors who are in turn selling that idea then to their partners And then ultimately selling that idea to their investors So it's a pretty pretty challenging fun kind of exercise But in summary, right? I wanted to share kind of a couple of takeaways just from this whole exercise that me and my co-founders have gone through And the first one is you know, if you're Considering taking you know the step which I 100% recommend it's an extremely fulfilling satisfying kind of exercise But if you're considering doing that then I would highly highly highly encourage that you find yourself some co-founders Right. It's it's just that much more satisfying and fun and amazing to do it with someone else It is just not the type of journey that you would want to do on your own The second one that I would say is when you're picking those co-founders be Extremely extremely extremely careful about who you're picking, right? Let really think of them as your work spouses because they are You're gonna be spending more time with them than you do with your your your real-world spouse, right? And and these are times that are just that are not gonna be always fun, right? You're you're gonna be going through a number of emotional challenges You know difficulties because every company goes through difficult times as well as good times literally on a daily basis So you need to make sure that this person or this group of people or someone you want to go on that journey with And they're gonna stick with you, you know through difficult times and beautiful times They're gonna have the perseverance in more importantly They have the same ideas about that project or the company or where they want to take it that you do And they have the same work ethic right so it's really really important and then lastly equally important Line up as much as possible is cities of really really really good mentors, right? We were very fortunate when we quit VMware We were part of this V mafia. That's that's the term for all X VMware folks who have started companies You know co-founders something and it's a very thriving community and it's a very giving community as well so we Were able to find a lot of mentors a lot of advisors and I cannot describe in words the the value of that right because I'm having someone who has just recently done something that you are trying to do and Willing to share those experiences and those learnings It just can give you that really awesome shortcut where you can just skip past all those mistakes that they did And you know, you know make sure that you're taking the path. That's more efficient So definitely do that and it doesn't matter whether you belong to a particular community that makes it easy to you know Get such mentors etc. What I have realized about Silicon Valley is that people are or just you know, the tech industry in general doesn't have to be Silicon Valley People are extremely extremely friendly and helpful and all it takes is for you to reach out to them And ask for help because that's exactly what we did we Spotted people that we would have really liked to have as mentors and then we went and attended sessions and talks that they were Presenting and then we stayed around afterwards and cut hold of them and then requested for meetings and Requested for sessions and then we struck a chord and we found a common ground And that's how we got a bunch of mentors we got today And there is just an immense amount of value towards lining up, you know these mentors So that's just in a nutshell what I wanted to share. I hope that was Hopeful interesting and again. Thank you for having me here. She was right on time. I don't know if you heard So very inspiring talks and so I want thank you so much for waking up early and spending the last hour with us And I promise we will keep you on time, but we want to spend the next 30 minutes in Small groups. I want you to take what these women said as inspiration Because what we want to do is a group is to figure out what we are going to achieve before the next summit in Tokyo So as Anne started the presentation We were able to do a couple just a couple of things between Paris and then Cougar that I had think had a big impact And so we don't want to try to do 15 things, but we want to try to do one thing So that's the next part of the exercise so in 30 minutes for the next 30 minutes We're gonna break up into small groups There's some if the group leaders could join me up here in the front of the room We're gonna break up into smaller groups. We have room here and also in 115 and 116 across the way We're going to spend the first 15 minutes just you know You know talking as a group and what did you hear today? How did that inspire you and the last 15 minutes? We're going to come up each group is gonna come up with one thing that they want to try to achieve before next summit And then they will have a single person will come up and do a one-minute talk on what the idea is So that's what we're gonna do for the next 30 minutes So if the leaders could come up here look yes, and let's give another hand for our presenters, please. Thank you We did an excellent job. All right. Okay. We're gonna do this old-school style So I want people to come up here ladies Number yourself up one through seven and then we'll start again one Three and let's go back here. Oh seven in the wall. Yeah, seven. Yeah one Anymore back there do we need any more back here? I did not notice that that probably does have some statistical significance So we'll we'll have to take special note of what group three comes back with four six and three Did you get a number did everyone get a number? Okay, so our leaders come up here I'm going to take group one. So who is group one We're going to meet in here in the front of the room You're gonna have group two. So hold up the two two and where would you like to meet? Right here in the room. Okay, Joanna will have group three We're looking forward to what you guys come back with Nina has group four Where would you like to meet in the? Okay, we do have two rooms across the hall. So you're gonna go across the hall You're group four Okay, group four you're gonna be group five group six is with Maria Rita and Where's our other speaker? Oh, she's in the back group seven Can you come in? The other speaker. Yes, Valerie Yes, you are So Valerie is group seven and she's gonna be across the room as well That's across the way. Okay. All right. Everyone break. We'll come back in 30 minutes. I can't wait to hear your ideas Here we go Introduce yourself Yeah, hi everyone. I'm mazri. I work in NEC So I'm a cool reviewer in the project open stack containers that it that is magnum so like my idea to contribute to Bring up more women in open stack is to Give give travel support to women's like I have been this is my first open stack submit And I'm able to attend this just because of the travel support program if I have not got this Opportunity I I really would have not been here like My like my next motive is to become a ptl of an open stack project and I know that's a big aim to achieve but This travel support is really going to help me as because I'll be attending the design discussions of the project So that will really help me. So I think Increasing the travel support program for women, especially it will really help the women's. Thank you. Hello My name is Courtney fairy. I am a Solutions engineer at Carpathia hosting, which means I architect clouds so our group has identified that We don't think there are enough women involved in technology and in the in the open-stack community and One of the things that we see is that when people come in or when women come in lots of times They get involved briefly and then they kind of fall out. They kind of get lost And we think a lot of that And we'd like to see sessions and maybe bring in ideas on how to get people women to come in and get them to stay in and we think part of the solution to that is mentorship and Sponsorship mentorship to help bring them in get them involved get them comfortable give them leadership and sponsorship to help them get Into the further leadership roles taking them into things like becoming ptls And so we'd like to have people in those higher-end leadership roles giving talks and lectures on how to Take that path Morning, I'm Margaret Kiyosi. I work for AT&T. I don't know if you're familiar with the domain 2.0 This is where we're virtualized in a home network on SDN and virtualization So I'm actually the front door for all our projects. I'm also president of opnfe which we initiate on the networking side So my group spent a lot of time discussing how do we become more effective in meetings? How do we interrupt the meetings and so the suggestion was to create a webinar my understanding is the OpenStack Foundation has money lots of money. I've seen the but I've seen the budget I've seen the budget too. So and so to create a webinar to basically do a role-playing on meetings how not to do it so basically I assume it's gonna be a bunch of men talking a bunch of women there women not Saying anything can get word and ed wise the women try to interrupt and the guys walk talk over them And then how to do it more effectively on the other side And one of the other suggestions is maybe from the webinar is to have at the next Tokyo summit If each woman would ask at least one or two questions in any of your you know sessions you go to as a target And because in the end the view is the more you practice the easier it'll get Go from there. Okay. Thank you So much For group four Hi, my name is Amanda. I'm with Swiss stack. I'm a mini Hatter there. It's a startup So I get to do a little bit of everything we have a deployment management over swift basically our group four talked We had a lot of good conversation including talking about the fact that there's only I think it was 9% women right now at the conference that number is actually doubled So it's been getting bigger which is good But we wanted to see a higher inclusion and awareness especially within the mainstream of the community We were talking about doing that in a number of ways including next session and next in Tokyo having maybe some developing soft skills and leadership that sort of thing Doing a series at least a couple of workshops in that of that nature It'd be open to everyone and they would also include the messaging of being sensitive about culture and gender and all of these other things and sort of incorporating it so that it's helping everybody including ourselves also things like the communication gap, especially for regions what's happened, you know, if there's a great session or Conference happens over in India. The word should be spreading everywhere through the open-stack foundation not just Locally within one region that sort of thing and we also thought that Having something that focuses a little more on the success of women, you know Have a part of when the news goes out about what's happening in the open-stack world Make sure there's a bullet point that's talking about what's happening with one woman one woman group. What have you just making it more incorporated? Hi, I'm Emily Hugenbroek from IBM and I work on the Tempest project And so our group talked about ways that we could think of to try to get a keynote speaker who's a woman So this is a focus area for the foundation. So we talked about Pipeline maybe different speaking opportunities at meet-ups or over the internet ahead of the summit also possibly doing a panel discussion because sometimes women feel more comfortable if they're being asked Questions rather than just getting up there and and being a keynote speaker. So we talked about that. We also talked about perhaps doing some User stories or app developer stories for the the keynote branch out in a different direction and then we also talked about the idea of at the summits doing maybe some speaker training or doing some assertiveness training and Maybe even helping people with disorders like Asperger's syndrome and things like that how they can be more assertive and be more part of discussions And we actually have somebody who probably could do a keynote Jane Jane from canonical is here today. So thanks for joining us. All right next Last time I held one of these I was five years old and I scared myself silly Um Um, I'm Susie Gray. I'm actually from IBM. No, I'm not We had someone in our group did that I'm from Nerves um I used to work for IBM. So yeah I've got that last night going around the booze. Oh, we're looking for people. I love my job HP has been fantastic and enough running up HP I actually work on I work on goes a which is basically the systems that do with the automated Development and testing for the guys that are developing the cloud products And I work downstream in the HP version of that, but we also submit code upstream. So I'm a DevOps person I'm also a teacher And I'm used to standing up in front of high school Students, so it's not quite too bad Okay, so what we came up with was a combination of things which is along the same lines of a lot of people are saying That we need more mentoring and that sort of thing Someone came up with the idea. It's a brilliant idea of actually setting up a private IRC channel Now even the non-technical people we can actually give you instructions on how to do it It's fairly easy to use fairly easy to set up because it's a group thing If we had a private channel for women so that they feel they've got that safe space They can ask questions and discuss this way you get to know people and Everyone's talking about stuff and everyone can support everyone else to a degree because people are busy But if you gel with one person then you can actually find that mentor that way rather than being assigned a mentor That may or may not be the right person for you And so we thought this might be a really good idea to actually Develop that whole mentor system and do some more mentoring And we want to do it even if you guys don't vote for this We we're planning on approaching the foundation and actually setting it up Group seven We're the Bobsy twins So I'm Beth Cohen and I work for Verizon and I'm not actually currently doing anything with open stack And I am willing to admit that But so my idea is in our group in general was to do a really create a platform for informal mentoring So there's a lot of formal programs, and I know a lot of companies have formal programs and And open stack doesn't really but So I think it's really important for people to understand that mentoring can be a 15 minute conversation It can be your Rolodex. I know that's an old-fashioned word But that those people that you meet and you spend time with they're your future Employers and they're the people that you're going to be working with over your career So it's really important to develop that that Informal networking and so I'm proposing that we use the mechanisms the IRC chat is great for that And also the women of open stack linked in Linked in group now and other groups that I think we need to really get that going so and I will turn it over to Very briefly the other two things we talked about where Whether we were interested in solutions that changed what changed women or it was solutions that changed the structures that Create sexism and we agreed we're interested in changing the structures Some concrete things related to the mentor mentorship are adopt going to our managers and pushing to have mentorship recognized as something that gets you Promoted so it's an official formal part of the performance review, which is the case in some companies already And the second one was some to talk work on ideas for making the open stack karma point system Really both valuable to your promotion in your community in your company and also that karma point should be given for mentoring like Activities, so it's a good group Okay, so we I want to keep us on time. Thank you so much for coming. I was telling my group earlier From I am so humbled We had 30 people in the room in Paris and I know it was Paris and people were partying the night before and it was late But I was just overwhelmed when I saw this group There was about 90 people at our peak and I really do appreciate you guys hands I mean a really a hand of applause for you guys getting up and coming we really do appreciate it So we want Claire and the open stack foundation want to thank them as again And then hopefully we'll have a room for 200 when we're in Tokyo That would be the goal and we'll hopefully we'll fill every seat So thank you again I will be sending out minutes of the meeting to the women of open stack mailing list if you're not a part of that Please get with me afterwards. I can give you instructions on how to sign up and Look for the IRC channel. That's gonna be starting out. That's a great idea and please on the way out So Intel and IBM have provided some yoga mats and umbrellas. Please take them on the way out and did you have something to say? Okay. All right. Thank you guys. Have a great conference. Thank you