Our very own Anne Gentle will go through how to contribute to OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project. What is OpenStack? In a sentence, OpenStack provides open source software for building public and private clouds. What does that mean? We're a collection of open source projects written in Python that integrate to help organizations deploy and run clouds for computing, networking, and storage. Here at Rackspace many of our public cloud services are maintained in OpenStack, and we also offer Private Cloud configuration and management for customers to have OpenStack running for them in their data center or ours. She'll walk through: What are all these projects? Where would I begin? Is it only coding that counts? What's Stackforge? What's Gerrit? What's <fill-in-weird-code-name-here>? Then we'll do a hands-on workshop to walk through the first-time contributor process. It's a set-it-and-forget-it process but can be intimidating. Set up a Launchpad account and public key Set up and install Git Set up and install git-review Set up Gerrit Join the OpenStack Foundation Sign the CLA Find something to work on Create a commit Send it to review.openstack.org Wait for reviews Address reviewers comments Patch your patch Become an Active Technical Contributor to OpenStack Win

1. A N N E G E N T L E , O P E N S TA C K D O C U M E N TA T I O N L E A D , R A C K S PA C E
S O Y O U W A N T T O B E A N O P E N S TA C K
CONTRIBUTOR

2. W H AT I S O P E N S TA C K A N Y W AY ?
• Open source software for building
public and private clouds.
• What matters to Rackspace?
• What are we running? Public and
Private Clouds
• Frenemies and coopetition - it’s both a
vendor consortium and a community
made of individuals.
• Unprecedented. Fast moving.
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3. CLOUDS IN USE
• Web sites, Software as a Service,
eCommerce: PayPal, Mercadolibre, WebEx,
Mediawiki
• Adademic/Research/Government: Argonne
Natl Lab, CERN, NeCTAR (Australia),
Cybera (Canada), Cyberport (China)
• IT: render farms, provision services, real-
time customer engagement, scale testing
• Media and Gaming
• Telcos and Hosting

4. WHERE WOULD I BEGIN?
• USING THE CLOUD
• Coding OpenStack SDKs
• Coding OpenStack itself
• Engineering (deploy, operate)
• Community
• What do you like to do?
• What do you already know?
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5. OTHER IDEAS
• Marketing
• Testing
• Triaging
• Documenting
• Stabilizing
• Securing
• Translating
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6. W H AT G L U E S T H E S E P R O J E C T S T O G E T H E R ?
• Deep Dive into OpenStack Governance
Bylaws
Board
Committees
(Technical, User, Legal, DefCore, Election)
• Incubation
• Integration
• Open development - Summit every six months

7. W H AT ' S < F I L L - I N - W E I R D - C O D E - N A M E - H E R E > ?
• What are programs?
Grouped sets of deliverables
• Compute
• Storage
• Documentation
• What are projects?
Teams of people working on deliverables
• Keystone
• Nova
• QA
• Swift
• Release Cycle Management
• Glance
• Infrastructure
• Cinder

8. L O O K U P TA B L E
H T T P : / / G I T. O P E N S TA C K . O R G / C G I T / O P E N S TA C K / G O V E R N A N C E / T R E E /
R E F E R E N C E / P R O G R A M S . YA M L
• Compute (Nova)
• Dashboard
(Horizon)
• Object storage
(Swift)
• Block storage
• Database (Trove)
• Deployment (TripleO)
• Dev Environment and Gate
(DevStack)
• Missing? Usability,
Translation, Security,
Training, SDKs

9. I N T H E Q U E U E ( S TA C K F O R G E )
• Data processing (hadoop) (Savanna)
• Platform (Solum)
• Queue service (Marconi)
• Benchmarking (Rally)
• Bare Metal (Ironic)
• Testing (Tempest)
• Designate (DNS)
• Reservation (Climate)
• Key/Secret Management
• Task orchestration( Mistral)
(Barbican, Kite)
• Windows deployment (Murano)

10. W H AT I F I C A N ’ T D E C O D E O P E N S TA C K - TA L K ?
• http://docs.openstack.org/glossary

11. ASK ME ANYTHING
D O C U M E N TAT I O N P R O G R A M T E C H N I C A L L E A D
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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER
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A D M I N I S T R AT O R
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12. Let’s Make OpenStack
U M . H O W D O I D O T H AT ?
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13. JOIN IN (PROVE YOU ARE YOU)
STEP
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Launchpad account
Upload SSH keys
Join the Foundation
Verify on review.openstack.org

14. GET YOUR GIT ON (GET FILES FOR WORK)
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Clone a repo
Set up git-review
Edit, test locally
Submit a patch
Get it reviewed
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15. REVIEW (BE EXTRA
EYES)
STEP 1: Write comments inline
STEP 2: Click Review
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or if it’s your patch
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Get a copy of the patch locally
(You can patch your patch)
Run tests, make edits
Push it back to review.openstack.org
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16. QUIZ BREAK:
SO YOU THINK YOU’RE SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER
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