Niki Acosta, Anne Gentle and Diane Mueller share tips on creating a successful CFP for an OpenStack Summit
Here is a link to the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFYNZ4jqik&feature=youtu.be
Unblocking The Main Thread Solving ANRs and Frozen Frames
Designing an OpenStack Summit Session Submission for Success
1. January 15, 2015
Niki Acosta, Anne Gentle, Diane Mueller
Sponsored by the Women of OpenStack
Designing an OpenStack Summit Session
Submission for Success
7. 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/sam
roposals.html
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WOMEN OF OPENSTACK
lists.openstack.org, LinkedIn Group
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23. Any questions?
Submit by February 9th!
We are willing to help!
@nikiacosta
@annegentle
@pythondj
24. 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 talk
http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/cfp/360
O’REILLY | Examples of Winning Proposals
http://www.oreilly.com/conferences/sample_proposals.html
25. Resources
Women of OpenStack Mailing List
http://lists.openstack.org
women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org
Women of OpenStack LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Women-OpenStack-WOS-4681909
Notas do Editor
How this panel came to be: Once upon a time, the Women of OpenStack got together to pick One Thing. Giving everyone the confidence to present at a Summit was that One Thing we wanted to work on so here we are! We want this presentation to cover not just the OpenStack summit but also speaking about OpenStack at multiple conferences. We want to spread the knowledge. If we throw around three letter acronyms, we should also define them. We know that many of the Women of OpenStack have only been to one summit, or are planning for Vancouver to be their first summit. We want to get a good jump start on that experience.
Here are some notes about the summit itself. It helps to be very familiar with the format of a conference prior to creating a proposal. This talk is about the Summit itself, not the Design Summit.
Proposals in this process are only for the Summit sessions, not the Design Summit. Those are chosen in a different manner. Stay tuned to the openstack-dev list for details.
Track chairs have final say, but community gets to participate by voting on interesting topics. Tweet early and tweet often.
Voters must be members of the OpenStack Foundation. It’s painfully obvious to track chairs if your company stuffs the ballot box so don’t do that.
Track chairs can swap proposals if they think there are too many in one.
*** Can we get some numbers to share about which tracks get a lot of submissions?
Deadline is February 9th!
Next, Anne Gentle will talk about some tips for proposals sessions.
Audience grows all the time. I don’t want to intimidate though, this is a keynote photo. There are typically less than 100 people in the room.
In Atlanta there were 700 CxOs who signed up in the last week prior to the Summit. There are basic patterns we see:
Operations
New to OpenStack
IT professionals
Operators
App developers are fewer in number but super valuable
Geography and locality makes a big difference for first time summits
Newbies to OpenStack (don’t make knowledge assumptions) easily 50% or more
Open source advocates
Corporate sponsors
Nearly a quarter of all attendees are developers, and they’ll be attending and voting on the proposals even if their time is split with the Design Summit.
Plenty of C-suite attendees
. For a general overview, O’Reilly has a great conference page with sample proposals at http://www.oreilly.com/conferences/sample_proposals.html
Title evocative, not too cute
Description sets out the problem, shows what attendees learn, tells why they’d care
Lists or outlines preferred over rambling text
Demonstrate your knowledge of topics
Next, Diane Mueller who has been a track chair for OpenStack can talk through her tips for any conference proposals.
CFP equals Call for Proposals or Call for Presentations.
Popup shows an oreilly.com link http://www.oreilly.com/conferences/sample_proposals.html
If your session or panel is chosen, your ticket fee is waived! The submission window is now open! Need more help? Find us on Twitter. Write to the Women of OpenStack mailing list or LinkedIn Group.
If your session or panel is chosen, your ticket fee is waived! The submission window is now open! Need more help? Find us on Twitter. Write to the Women of OpenStack mailing list or LinkedIn Group.
If your session or panel is chosen, your ticket fee is waived! The submission window is now open! Need more help? Find us on Twitter. Write to the Women of OpenStack mailing list or LinkedIn Group.