 Good. Welcome to the Foundation Lounge Theater. I'm here joined with Nicole from Intel and Erin from the Foundation. My name is Jessica Morello and we'd like to spend a few minutes talking about the women of OpenStack. So the great news, let me, first Erin, why don't you talk a little bit about some of the women's participation here at the summit? Yeah. So in the last couple of years, we've definitely seen an increase of women at the summit. So nice to see so many female faces in the crowd. In Boston, we've got 11% of our attendees are female. So obviously have some work to do there, but it is, I have seen some growth in the last couple of years and we've been sitting at 11-12%. And this is a great time to sort of meet other women in the community. And we've got a lot of great activities this week that we'll kind of dig into here. So we started coming together as a community of women with the OpenStack team. Back in 2013 in Portland. So that's when we had our first networking breakfast. And so that we continue to have networking events. And then in 2014, we decided just as this community has continued to grow, we wanted to grow as a community as well. So we had our first, we called it a blueprint working session. And the goal was to survey the women and our supporters within the community and find out what we really needed to do to support one another. So what came out of that survey, what came out of those discussions was a focus on network building, educational opportunities, leadership opportunities for women, as well as mentoring and coaching. We've continued on that theme and then we came up with a mission statement last summer. Let me read a few passages from it. We strived to lower the barrier of entry to OpenStack learning and use to increase the overall diversity of our OpenStack community. We provide professional and social networking group for women and their advocates with common interests in OpenStack and open source technologies. We achieved these goals through leading and sponsoring educational sessions and networking events that promote inclusion in the OpenStack community. Really a continued focus on networking, education and mentoring and coaching. Erin and I met at the end of Barcelona to talk a little bit about what we wanted to achieve over between Barcelona and Boston. And we came up with an editorial calendar that we were able to have experts from the community come in. We have meetings two times a month. We record one of them and we put it out on the wiki. And so some of the things that we have recorded and I see several people who've been here at the summit this week who've actually contributed the recordings. We talked to Emily Wilson about her first year working on OpenStack. In December we had a talk on how to submit a proposal for a talk here in Boston. We talked about OpenStack programs that support diversity, experience from the project teams gathering that we had earlier this year, as well as how to gear up for this year's summit. So I do want to also let Nicole talk for a few minutes about what I think is one of our most important programs that I think that we've done really well and it is mentoring. So we're gonna have a speed mentoring event a little bit later here this afternoon for lunch and Nicole wants you to talk a little bit more about that. Thank you very much Jessica. I'm so I'm happy to be here with Jessica and Erin to talk about what a large mentoring community we have within the larger OpenStack community. Certainly speed mentoring, long-term mentoring, outreach mentoring and then the upstream mentoring as well. So it's just been fantastic. From a speed mentoring perspective we introduced the speed mentoring sessions after the summit in Tokyo. So it started with the summit in Austin and they've just been phenomenal and very well attended sessions. We have both career and technical tracks because we're looking to attract both technical and non-technical contributions within the larger OpenStack community. Roughly 15 to 20 mentors join us each time for the sessions and then we pair groups of about five mentees with each mentor and it's a bit like speed dating where we ask the the mentors just to contain the chaos so to speak and ease the logistics. We ask the mentors to move between the different tables and again we have a speed mentoring session today from 1250 to 150. It's lunch. So people haven't signed up can they still come to the lunch? Oh please do. You know actually thank you. One of the other things that I was gonna mention was that although it's hosted by the women of OpenStack we have both female and male mentors right and and mentees are male and female are welcome as well. So again just to reflect the diversity of and inclusion of the community. If you haven't signed up please come join us. We'd love to see you there and you'll walk away with some give fun giveaways and that sort of thing but it's been a really fun time for us. It's usually a breakfast but today's is a lunch. I also think it's a great way to kind of kick off the week and if you are new to the OpenStack community it's a really good way to get to know some folks. You're sitting at a table with your peers and you have an hour to chat so even if you don't have lunch plans just pop by and be great. Yeah so I was able to participate in Austin and in Barcelona and it was a great event. You get you get to meet you know a bunch of new people that you probably would not get a chance to meet with and now that it's a big in the week there's people that you can hang with for the rest of the week. So we have a question in the back of the room. It's 309 but I can double check that. There is yeah if it's on the schedules I don't know the room off the top of my head but yeah 309. Yeah so the question was where is the networking lunch going the mentoring lunch going to be held and it's in room 309 so thanks. So we have other events scheduled throughout the week so we talked a little bit about speed mentoring. I highly encourage people to attend that. We also have our continuation of our blueprint working session for the women of OpenStack. That will be held tomorrow at 1250. It'll also be a lunch session and to find that room you can just look on the online schedule and search for the women of OpenStack. You should be able to find it. On Wednesday we're going to be sponsoring as we have for a number of past summits our get in Garrett lunch and learn and again this is open for for men and women as well that's going to be held Wednesday at 1240. We're also going to have a presence this evening at the Marketplace Mixer. There will be signs for women to gather and this is a great place for you guys to when you're as you're walking through the different booths. If you want to kind of meet other women of OpenStack or our supporters please come to the signed area in the Marketplace Mixer and also you can the online scheduling tool is great. If you just search for women of OpenStack you can see a listing and Erin is one who actually did this. If you want to talk a little bit more about how you can find the other women of OpenStack sessions. Yeah we've got we have a tag that is women of OpenStack. There's a lot of diversity talks this time. A lot of folks that are active within the women of OpenStack community that have used that tag so we can go in and support our peers. So we typically have a panel discussion and as well as a number of our sessions you can go and look at. So what we want to do it's great for us to come together and meet at summits but we want to continue the conversation between summits and to do that we have a women of OpenStack mailing list that you can join as well as a LinkedIn group. We also have two times a week teleconferences. I talked a little bit earlier about our editorial calendar so we will be posting audio files from those meetings at least one of the meetings where we have a speaker on the women of OpenStack wiki but our next teleconference will be held on June 12th. It's always at 2000 UTC which right now it is 4 p.m. Eastern time we always have problems with that whenever we have daylight savings times things like that. But you can also just search for women of OpenStack wiki and you'll see the latest etherpad links to all our past meetings and I very much encourage you guys to join us here at the summit and also after the summit is over. Yeah there's also a mentoring meeting that takes place by weekly as well all available on the site that Jessica just mentioned. Yes and I can't say we I can't thank the foundation enough. Aaron as well as Allison Price and Claire Massey have been staunch proponents for this community for many years so thank you very much for supporting us supporting all the women and our advocates and as well as our corporate sponsors we could not do these events without our corporate sponsors. So I want to thank Intel for sponsoring the speed mentoring IBM my company is sponsoring the women of OpenStack working session and then we also this year new have target supporting our OpenStack women's lounge so again big thanks to these companies for supporting the women of OpenStack supporting diversity and supporting inclusion. Yeah any other questions? All right well great thanks for joining us and have a great summit.