 So I'm Alex. I work at Rackspace. I'm just going to put through my little credentials for a bit because what I'm going to talk about Will make me seem like maybe I'm too young for it I was an intern at Red Hat about three and a half years ago. Lana hired me worked with her for a bit and then Skipped over to Rackspace and then she took me again Anyway last year now I had the opportunity to go to California and what I was able to do over there is I Was a part of a book sprint raise your hands if you know what a book sprint is Yeah, we got four or five This is going well guys Okay, so like sprinting has absolutely nothing to do with running as far as documentation is concerned But you are definitely sprinting to the finish line. So what it is is opens I work for Rackspace and I do open stack documentation So Lana was like off you go go to California and I went and I was like case it's scary What am I doing and what actually happened was I was locked in a room for 13 days in VMware with 13 days sorry five days with 13 writers And we were asked to write an entire book entire documentation suite and we wrote the open stack architecture design guide Which has issues now. So if anyone has any comments keep them to yourself We're working on it Anyway, so what my talk was it's all gonna be about sprints versus swarms Does anyone know what a swarm is documentation swarm got one two and I know Jodo's Okay documentation swarm is kind of along the same lines You have one day as many people as you want in a room locked again. You got food this time though So like yes, we were actually given no food in that other room So yes one day and you are asked to write as much as you can so you say what we did is We had some colleagues and open stack team turned to us and they said hey, we want a networking guide and we went How about a good that the answer is bad? But the point is we sat there and we tried to come up with a skeleton everyone understands what a documentation skeleton is Yeah, yeah, anyone who doesn't You know sit down Okay, so we spent the day coming out with a skeleton and I'm not gonna lie. That was incredibly difficult and I guess what I'm trying To be a five-minute talk that I won't lie have not planned So what I'm trying to do is compare and contrast a swarm and a sprint and how you all can use it I would a hundred percent recommend a sprint. This is like an experience talk Do you guys have something that you out quickly anyone have something like they think oh my god I need this upgrade guide or I need an install guide or something community orientated anyone. Yeah, I've got two Yeah, Zach does This is something I totally recommend you propose 13 days locked in a room you get stuff done We had a moderator Adam He would not let us have any food if anyone knows Adam Hyde Okay, okay, well, I don't know everything guys. This is what we've gathered from this Just yeah, okay, go out go away know it all with Adam off Well, what they did is you literally you get breakfast you stay into lunch You know I take any food in you have some food you have a half an hour for lunch you go back in You don't leave until about anywhere between 8 and 12 You get stuff done guys. This is like me trying to promote this and This is more like I want some questions for you guys if you have any questions about how this works Because I can't keep standing up here and saying it's good Yeah, let's go I will You were you were locked in a room with no food Make me understand why that's good Really good question, let's face it Okay, so I'm not even going to bother lying about the fact that there was some really really angry tech people in there like wall it actually be like It's I would like to rephrase my question differentiate what you have described from imprisonment and slavery actually none Ah How do I describe this is good It's you know when you're given a deadline and someone says to you you have to get this done There's absolutely no way we're gonna let you out of this room unless you do it. What's the motivation there? You you want to go home? And that's it our motivation every day was okay. We've come here for breakfast Let's try as fast as we can because we figure if we work fast lunch will come quicker And we can talk to the person next to us You know we can make a new friend and then lunch half later And we were motivation was work as fast we can so we can go the bed you work for four hours straight eight hours straight But there is a book guys go have a look at that book. It is open source and you all can work on it This is also my little like pep talk on that go open source guys and open stack just saying It's pretty cool. Yeah, David Ryan. Oh, whoa, I got my friend Okay, other companies that worked on this effort. No anyone who was working on open stack Documentation upstream we had guys from Comcast Miranda's We had Red Hat people we had Steve Gordon. Of course, you know Steve Gordon from Red Hat pardon VMware rack space Verizon I Think they were our group So it was sort of like the open stack community would like hey, we've got this book when it done and it's happened for We've got the security guide up the ops guide as well I believe we're all done from documentation sprints up the back this gray shirt first Captain Gray Okay, great It is yeah, sorry just is the question was is this to get a first cut and yes It is the idea of these documentaries and swarms is so that we can get a prototype almost So we can sort of say hey look, this is a basis This is like, you know, one's a small skeleton swarm One's a big skeleton and that we can work further one of the projects. I'm working on currently basically in my spare time because I have all to have this stuff to do with rack space but Going reading through that document and fixing some of the grammatical and spelling errors that we've made It's not gonna be perfect. It never will be and like I was one of the copy editors on it And I'm rereading it now thinking oh my freaking God Like how did I miss the fact that the world thought is spelt backwards, but you do right like you're literally delirious my Twitter handle is Tuesday because on Tuesday. I drank Mountain Dew and I was so psycho Hyperactive bouncing off walls crazy. I went to bed at 4 a.m American Mountain Dew was not the same Didn't ginger all that's horrible isn't it? Um red Really good question. Okay, so the question was like, how do you decide how the work is basically divided up? Yep Correct. So what it was is it was in the room and we said, okay, what are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Only two of us were writers myself and Beth Cohen Oh, I'm sorry and Nick Chase Nicholas Chase from Mirantis and it was basically Okay, you three You are gonna do the editing bit like okay. Thank you for that direction. That was that was terrific And then the rest were all techies some was his admins some were developers Two minutes guys So if you have a question just like raise your hand, we'll do it really quick And we divvied it up as to what the expertise was, you know And we had the way the moderators work was they come to us and they said okay We need to immediately decide on how the skills like what's gonna be the content how we're gonna separate that content And what is needed? We have a base literally what the OpenStack Foundation gives us is we need a Architecture design guide off you go. And so we have to come out with that and obviously it goes back in the community It's get it gets reviewed Which is currently in process of so if any of you actually are interested in reviewing this document and getting involved I'd really like it if you contact me or anyone on the OpenStack Nation I'm kind of running the review process ish, but we need people to read review and look at some content and I'm done Architecture design guide OpenStack architecture design guide. Yep Any more questions? Yes It is That's just that's exactly it. Sorry. The question was how do you as someone who is a not Involved wise to be involved as just a volunteer. Yeah, more or less Literally the way you work on any open source upstream documentation you work you get involved You're in mailing lists and this was volunteer based except I was volunt told It was like hey, what you doing in July? Nothing Guess where you're going? Literally was the question actually I could find the email if you wanted Anyway, I'll put my little like Twitter handle up here so you guys can see and if anyone is interested in getting more involved Oh Jesus, okay. I'm aggressive if anyone's involved what interested in Getting involved we would love to have you there plus like I just want people to volunteer to do things for me Like I would feel so important It's obviously what's important here. All right. I think I'm done any more questions