training would take 2.5 months self paced, (5) 2 week periods with a user group meeting, or 40 hours instructor led with 40 hours of self paced lab time. Some time set aside for distro specific training. able to fix bugs able to commit documentation patches deep understanding of nova and glance deep understanding of one other core project: swift, neutron, olso, or cinder trace workflow using zipkin work off a three node OpenStack implementation, create a vagrant/chef configuration based on http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/50911984233/some-tips-on-getting-started-with-vagrant-and-chef understanding of core components interaction through APIs deep understanding of core conf and log files puppet/chef understanding git basics, create scenarios from http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics reference Nova API referencehttp://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/2/content/ Glance API referencehttp://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-image-service/1.0/content/ 5-10 scenarios to diagnose, hands on Submit a bug. Enter the summary as "Training, " with a few words. Be descriptive as possible in the description field. Open the tag pull-down and enter training-manuals.