OpenStack Summit Austin 2016

The OpenStack Summit will be held April 25-29, 2016, in Austin, Texas. This is our collection of interviews with speakers of the event.

• Organizing the OpenStack community locally and globally—Sharone Zitzman will participate in a panel called Tips from Community Managers: Effective Strategies for Building a Vibrant User and Developer Community.
• A newcomer's guide to navigating OpenStack Infrastructure—Paul Belanger of Red Hat, Elizabeth K. Joseph of HPE, and Christopher Aedo of IBM will lead a session on OpenStack Infrastructure for Beginners.
• Expanding DBaaS workloads with OpenStack Trove and Manila—Amrith Kumar of Tesora, Christopher Merz of NetApp, and Rob Young of Red Hat will give a talk called Expanding DBaaS Workloads with OpenStack Trove and Manila.
• Hunting for purple squirrels: 3 tips for hiring the right OpenStack contributor—Colette Alexander will give a talk called Hunting for Purple Squirrels: Hiring OpenStack Contributors in the Wild.
• How to be a good OpenStack mentor—Victoria Martinez de la Cruz will be speaking on a panel called Newcomers Need You, How to Be A Good Mentor.
• The future of development with OpenShift and OpenStack—Scott McCarty will give a talk titled OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering applications together.
• Analyzing gender diversity in the OpenStack community—Daniel Izquierdo, co-founder of software development analytics provider Bitergia, will give the talk Gender-diversity analysis of technical contributions in the OpenStack projects.
• How to become an advanced contributor to OpenStack—Ildikó Váncsa will give a talk titled How to Become an Advanced Contributor.
• What's the total cost of ownership for an OpenStack cloud?—Massimo Ferrari and Erich Morisse, strategy directors at Red Hat, will give the talk Elephant in the Room: What's the TCO for an OpenStack Cloud?
• How the science of happiness can improve OpenStack teams—Alexis Monville will give a talk titled What science knows about happiness that could transform OpenStack