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OpenStack TrainingLowering the barrier to entry for OpenStack
Colin McNamara
Chief Cloud Architect – Nexus / Dimension Data
OPEN@NEXUS
Sean Roberts
OpenStack Release Mgr Yahoo
OpenStack@Yahoo
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Sean Roberts - CoFounder
OpenStack Foundation Board member
Leader of SF Bay OpenStack
Core - OpenStack Manuals
Co-Founder – OpenStack Training
Former Stanford SLAC
Chief Infrastructure Architect Yahoo
Now accelerating the Yahoo through the market through Software Maturity (TDD)
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Colin McNamara - CoFounder
CCIE / VCP / OpenStack Contributor
Serial instigator for OpenStack Community
Core - OpenStack Manuals
Co-Founder – OpenStack Training
Linux user since 98
VMware user since 99
Founder and maintainer of an awesome beard, and an amazing family
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Why did we do this?
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Challenge we both faced in business
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OpenStack Training - Goals
Align to the upcoming Certification program
Increase the hiring pool of talented engineers
enable underrepresented & econnomically disadvantaged groups to develop marketable skills
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OpenStack Training - Goals
Lower the barrier to entry of OpenStack
Increase accuracy and usability of docs
Create survivable, usable content in the world of a 6 month release cycle
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We decided to fix this ourseles
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Course Structure
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Location docs.openstack.org
Get Training
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Program Structure
Openstack associate engineer
Openstack operations engineer
Openstack development engineer
Openstack DevOps architect
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focus – Seeing the baby be born and grow up
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Current Challenge
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Methods
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Delivery Methods
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Self Paced Book
Corporate Instructor Led
Community Instructor Led
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Methods – Avoid Content going stale
6M release cycle kills books
Create structure for surviving that cycle
Re-Use Code
Engage End-Users
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Methods – Open Source Training
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Methods – Treat training like source code
Run it like it’s own project
Continuously Integrated
Using same XML as docs
Focus on code re-use
Using Agile Methodologies Scrum-ban Trello
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Status – Current Supporters
Community
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Challenges
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Engaging end users to receive training
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Challenging the establishment
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Challenges / Lessons Learned - Infrastructure
Project infrastructure Repositories CI Systems Standards Wiki's Kanban tools Meeting structure / Schedules
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Challenges / Lessons Learned
Corporate Support is essential
OpenStack – 92% Corporate
Training – 80% Individual
9-5 work is critical
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What’s Next?
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Call to Action – Contributors Count
Always need more contributors Small work matters 2 cards a week = 1 week
less work
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Call to Action
Need Proctors
Need Students
Need quality bugs and feedback
Need more contributors
USE IT, Share it, Add to it
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Open DiscussionLet’s look at the training!!
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