Overview
This section contains an outline of the things you want to get done this month. Further down you will clarify specifics in more detail. The top level view helps to tie the smaller items back to something simpler. This helps to maintain focus. The simpler items should come from the actions defined for your milestones, so linking these back to your larger goal is easier and also helps you to stay focused.
Body of Work
Pick 3 things from your Body of Work category to commit to this month. How many of each can you do?
- Example: Contribute 1 pull request
- Example: Triage 5 bugs
- Example: Write 1 blog entry
Visibility
Pick 1-2 things from your Visibility category to commit to this month.
- Example: Present at 1 Meetup
- Example: Apply to present at 1 conference
Credibility
Pick 1-2 things from your Credibility category to commit to this month.
- Example: Complete 2 weeks of Intro to Distributed Computing online course
Body of Work
- Contribute 1 Pull Request
- Submit a patch for Issue #5: request hangs on non-ASCII characters - url
- Triage 5 bugs
- Issue #8 - url
- Issue #9 - url
- TODO
- TODO
- TODO
- Write 1 blog entry
- Advice for good API design - paste url when done
Visibility
- Present at 1 Meetup
- Openstack PDX: Care and Feeding of VMs in the Cloud - url
- Apply to present at 1 conference
- Linuxfest NW - Intro to Openstack Tutorial - url
Credibility
- Intro to Distributed Computing
- Week 1 - url - link to Github with homework
- Week 2 - url - link to Github with homework
Highlights
Write a few sentences telling a story about 1-3 things you did this month.
- Made my first contribution the Nova project!
- I also presented in public for the first time at the local Openstack PDX Meetup. People were very friendly and asked a lot of great questions.
- I started a really interesting online course on distributed computing. It’s pretty tough! one week’s homework actually takes me two!