---
title: "OpenStack Summit 2014: Vote for Community Presentations"
description: "A guide to critical presentations and community talks proposed for the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta"
author: "Colin McNamara"
tags: ["openstack","devops","community","presentations","conferences","training","education"]
image: "https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/openstack-summit-2014-presentations-voting/featured.png"
date: 2014-02-20
url: https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/openstack-summit-2014-presentations-voting
---

# OpenStack Summit 2014: Vote for Community Presentations

It's time to vote for presentations for OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. I've submitted a few presentations, as well am co-submitting some presentations with people I really respect in the community. I've stack ranked what I feel are the priorities to discuss in each, as well as **bolded the critical presentations** in each area. If you find these valuable, please let your voice be heard and vote.

Now, a great presentation may not be listed in here. I'm under a bit of a time crunch right now, and took the short list of presentations I've discussed with people. As I got through and do my own voting I'll add in others that are of value and merit to the community.

## Critical Presentations to Discuss at the Summit

**CI Pipeline Bootcamp** submitted by Sean Roberts (Speakers: Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts, Tom Fifield, Monty Taylor)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/ci-pipeline-bootcamp](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/ci-pipeline-bootcamp)

**OpenStack University Courses** submitted by Sean Roberts (Speakers: Tristan Goode, Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts, Loic Dachary, Matjaž Pančur)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-university-courses](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-university-courses)

**Contributing back as an Operator** (Speaker: Colin McNamara)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/contributing-back-as-and-operator](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/contributing-back-as-and-operator)

**OpenStack Training - Community Created and Delivered Training for OpenStack** (Speakers: Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-training-community-created-and-delivered-training-for-openstack](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-training-community-created-and-delivered-training-for-openstack)

## Community Presentations

OpenStack Participation submitted by Sean Roberts (Speakers: Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts, Stefano Maffulli, Heidi Bretz)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-participation](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-participation)

Trainer Rating System submitted by Sean Roberts (Speakers: Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts, Mark Collier, Pranav Salunke)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/trainer-rating-system](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/trainer-rating-system)

Hackathon Syllabus submitted by Sean Roberts (Speakers: Kyle Mestery, Colin McNamara, Sean Roberts, Shannon McFarland)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/hackathon-syllabus](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/hackathon-syllabus)

## Presentations Directly Submitted by Me

Multi-Node DevStack w/ Puppet (Speaker: Colin McNamara)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/multi-node-devstack-w-puppet](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/multi-node-devstack-w-puppet)

How we failed transitioning our Engineers to Developers, and how that turned into an EPIC Win (Speaker: Colin McNamara)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/how-we-failed-transitioning-our-engineers-to-developers-and-how-that-turned-into-an-epic-win](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/how-we-failed-transitioning-our-engineers-to-developers-and-how-that-turned-into-an-epic-win)

Value Stream Mapping - Figuring out what should I move to OpenStack (Speaker: Colin McNamara)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/value-stream-mapping-figuring-out-what-should-i-move-to-openstack](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/value-stream-mapping-figuring-out-what-should-i-move-to-openstack)

Agile SDN Development (TDD for SDN) using OpenDaylight, OpenStack, Open vSwitch and Mininet (Speaker: Colin McNamara)  
[https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/agile-sdn-development-tdd-for-sdn-using-opendaylight-openstack-open-vswitch-and-mininet](https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/agile-sdn-development-tdd-for-sdn-using-opendaylight-openstack-open-vswitch-and-mininet)