[ad_1] STEMM Role Models is a website that helps connect event organizers with presenters from underrepresented groups. Diversity is important to me, so the project caught my eye. I reached out to project lead Kirstie Whitaker, a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Cambridge, to learn more. She graciously agreed to an interview, and what…

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[ad_1] Even as accepted standards on how to do it “right” remain elusive, DevOps is a crucial element of modern IT. Corey Quinn, director of DevOps at FutureAdvisor, has immense experience in operations and DevOps. I had an opportunity to talk to him ahead of his two talks at LinuxFest Northwest 2016: Terrible ideas in…

[ad_1] They say you never forget your first. In my case it was 2008 and Lucidworks had just raised our Series A round and hired our first salesperson. I was asked to jump on a call with a prospective client looking for help troubleshooting Apache Solr. During the call, the prospect asked me a number…

[ad_1] Daniel Izquierdo, co-founder of software development analytics provider Bitergia, has been analyzing data for his upcoming talk at OpenStack Summit in Austin. In this interview, he offers a preview of his talk Gender-diversity analysis of technical contributions in the OpenStack projects. When did you start analyzing the OpenStack ecosystem gender diversity? And how has it…

[ad_1] If you’re looking to teach, tutor, or mentor beginning programmers, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Different learning styles, varying levels of knowledge, and a subject area that’s a moving target all conspire to see you run ragged as an instructor. Luckily, there is help available—lots of help. It comes in the…

[ad_1] Victoria Martinez de la Cruz wants to make mentoring within OpenStack an excellent experience. As a software engineer at Red Hat, and coordinator a for both Outreachy and Google Summer of Code, Victoria is always eager to get new people involved with the technologies, projects, and philosophies of open source. She is also the co-founder of the LinuxChix…

[ad_1] Often I am approached and asked the question, “How do I get people to change what they are doing, especially when it is always so incredibly clear that they do not want to?” As if I could understand or empathize with the situation and magic up a solution, I used to try to answer…

[ad_1] At OpenStack Summit Austin, Scott McCarty is giving a talk titled OpenShift and OpenStack: Delivering applications together. In this interview, Scott shares his thoughts on the benefits of using OpenShift and OpenStack together to develop and deliver applications. He also speculates about the advances we might see in the next year’s development of OpenShift…