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+Overview of the contribution process
+====================================
+
+
+OpenStack Upstream Training
+---------------------------
+
+ <teacher name>
+ <date>
+
+----
+
+Project pulse
+=============
+
+- Code speaks : run gource
+- How many contributors?
+- How old is the project?
+- When was the last update?
+- etc.
+
+
+----
+
+Who's behind it?
+==================
+
+- Individuals
+- Companies
+- What's their incentive?
+
+
+----
+
+Project as social groups
+=========================
+
+- Group of friends
+- Company employees
+- Corporate driven
+- Volunteers
+
+----
+
+Assess your approach
+====================
+
+-Verbose or terse ?
+- Socialize or strictly professional ?
+- Habits: online relationships ?
+- Acknowledge the language barrier
+
+----
+
+Engage immediately
+==================
+
+- Discuss with non upstream
+- Get your nick / mail known
+- Mingle
+
+----
+
+Play with your network
+======================
+
+- Ask people you know about the project
+- Send mails to friends saying you'll contribute
+- IM friends saying you'll contribute
+- Ask about their contribution experience
+- Ask if they know someone
+
+----
+
+Smaller tasks
+=============
+
+- Sizing the task difficulty
+- Spliting a task
+- Seeking agreement on the split
+
+----
+
+Choosing a question
+===================
+
+- Think about the solution
+- Find a choice that needs to be made
+- Ask the question and propose your choice
+
+----
+
+Code of conduct
+===============
+
+- Be considerate
+- Be respectful
+- Be collaborative
+- When we disagree, we consult others
+- When we are unsure, we ask for help
+- Step down considerately
+
+----
+
+Disagree
+========
+
+- Suspension of disbelief
+- Accepting the rules
+- No flamewars
+- No enemies
+
+----
+
+Understanding the conventions
+=============================
+
+- Read the policy
+- Read the code / documentation guidelines
+- Read the actual code and the actual documentation
+- Apply them very diligently
+
+----
+
+Explain what you do
+===================
+
+- Link to the blueprint
+- Link to the bug report
+- What the work does
+- Each choice made must have a rationale
+
+----
+
+Prepare the backport
+====================
+
+- Apply the contribution to trunk
+- Think about backporting
+- Twist the contribution to ease backporting
+
+----
+
+Local and upstream
+==================
+
+- Development / trunk version
+- Stable version
+- In house version
+
+----
+
+Good workflow
+=============
+
+.. image:: ./_assets/19-01-goodworkflow.png 
+
+----
+
+Bad workflow
+============
+
+.. image:: ./_assets/19-02-badworkflow.png
+
+----
+
+Quantify the delta
+==================
+
+- Measure the delta with upstream
+- Compare
+- Analyze the reasons for an increased delta
+
+----
+
+Speeding the acceptance
+=======================
+
+- People skills
+- Diplomacy
+- Communication
+- Getting attention
+
+----
+
+Timeframe
+=========
+
+- Engage daily
+- Ask for attention weekly
+- Try to get attention at least four times
+
+----
+
+Building karma
+==============
+
+- While waiting for input
+- Fix the web site
+- Fix the documentation
+- Answer questions
+
+----
+
+Parallelizing
+=============
+
+- Work
+- Karma missions
+- Learning about the project
+
+----
+
+From easy to difficult
+======================
+
+- Answering questions
+- Contributing code / documentation
+- Contributing blueprints
+- Discussing the architecture
+- Influence the project governance
+
+----
+
+Archive and collect
+===================
+
+- Log IM channels
+- Keep links to email archives
+- Choose one place to gather all information
+
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