This document discusses the goals and structure of the OpenStack Training program created by Sean Roberts and Colin McNamara. The goals are to lower the barrier to entry for OpenStack, align training with upcoming certification, and enable more diverse groups to develop marketable skills. The training structure includes self-paced, corporate instructor-led, and community instructor-led courses focused on associate engineer, operations engineer, development engineer, and DevOps architect roles. Methods to avoid content becoming stale include reusing code, engaging end users, and treating training like open source software. Current challenges include engaging end users and scaling infrastructure to support the program.

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OpenStack Training
Lowering the barrier to entry for OpenStack
Connected VSPEXTM
Connected VSPEXTM
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

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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
OpenStackTraining 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

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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
Docs.openstack.org - GET TRAINING

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Open Discussion
Let’s look at the training!!
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