January 15, 2015

Niki Acosta, Anne Gentle, Diane Mueller

Sponsored by the Women of OpenStack

Designing an OpenStack Summit Session

Submission for Success

Why are

we here?

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Keynotes: Monday - Tuesday

Marketplace Expo Hall: Monday - Thursday

Main Conference Breakout: Monday – Thursday

Design Summit: Tuesday – Friday

Register: www.openstack.org/summit

OpenStack Summit

Vancouver

Monday – Friday May 18-22, 2015

How does the proposal system work?

SUBMISSIONS VOTING TRACKS

5

Audience Analysis

More than half are new

to OpenStack

Regional awareness

Paris

November 2014

58% first-time attendees

Atlanta

May 2014

65% first-time attendees

7

Title informative,

not too cute

Description sets out

problem, shows learning

objectives

Match to style requested

(workshop, case study)

Show your knowledge

Timing matters

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GREAT EXAMPLES!

www.oreilly.com/conferences/sample_p

roposals.html

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WOMEN OF OPENSTACK

lists.openstack.org, LinkedIn Group

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Any questions?

Submit by February 9th!

We are willing to help!

@nikiacosta

@annegentle

@pythondj

Resources

PYCON | Advice for

Speakers https://ref.readthedocs.org/en/latest/advice_for_pycon_speakers/index.ht

ml

OSCON | Tips for writing a good proposal for a good talkhttp://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/cfp/360

O’REILLY | Examples of Winning Proposalshttp://www.oreilly.com/conferences/sample_proposals.html

Resources

Women of OpenStack Mailing Listhttp://lists.openstack.org

women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org

Women of OpenStack LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/Women-OpenStack-WOS-4681909