 So Mark talked a lot about the four opens and an important aspect of that openness is the ability to collaborate more easily and Collaboration is an important foundational aspect to any open source project Open stack itself is successful because we all work together to build it Contributing the parts that we can and in the ways that we can and then stitching those things together to make the whole It's important to re reconfirm and reinforce the aspects of collaboration that make that possible by recognizing exceptional work and calling it out and saying thank you to each other when it happens and so One of the ways that we do that is through our community contributor awards program And today we'd like to bring the recipients of the award for the Stein development cycle up on stage to be recognized by everyone so The community contributor awards were created as a way to give special thanks to contributors That might not be in more visible roles like team lead or technical committee member Nonetheless, they do really important work each cycle the community is asked to nominate people for the things that they do and They're selected and we give out the awards here at the summit some of these people facilitate interactions like Bringing us closer to other communities and making this wonderful world of open source even more powerful Some of them while new to the community jump in with both feet and start contributing without reservation and These people go above and beyond a day in day out like it's a routine and they deserve our thanks and celebration So please give them another round of applause Okay, so Kendall. Do you remember when you started contributing to open sack? I do actually so my first patch was merged on like August 19th in 2015 And I've immortalized a reminder of that on my skirt so This code is actually the projects.yaml from the governance repository. So it kind of gives you a Perspective on what open-sack looked like then and how much has changed since then That's that's pretty cool. I need to get your tailor's name. Maybe get a blazer made Okay, so if you would like to start contributing to open stack either to the stein or the train release We have plenty of resources to help you get going The contributor portal at open stack org slash community is a great place to start There's documentation there about the tools that you would need our processes and the various teams that are recruiting help If you need a little more interactive assistance, then we have several programs set up to connect you with people in the community Who can give you some guidance? So first contact SIG members are always on the lookout for post to the mailing lists and things on IRC where newcomers are asking questions They're definitely the people that will help guide you to the resources you need and Introduce you to people with similar interests per project or what have you? At our in-person events around the world we host upstream Institute which teaches you the basics of contribution Everything from how our community is structured to the tools that we use to collaborate There are mentoring programs that the diversity and inclusion working group also Overseas and we participate in internship programs like outreach in the Google summer of code and Here to talk a little bit more about his involvement in mentoring Both inside open stack and at his company is Joseph Sandoval a member of the user committee and Cloud platform manager at Adobe. So please welcome Joseph