Announce Second Keynote Speaker

sayanchowdhury commented 4 years ago

Tasks

[x] Social Media announcement @Pradhvan
[x] Blog post announcement @vipulgupta2048
[x] Mailing list announcement @sayanchowdhury
[x] Website update to display the second keynote speaker. @aavrug

Timeline

Pre 4PM

[x] Push a low resolution image to server to refer in website and blog @palnabarun @sayanchowdhury
[x] Merge the blog post @vipulgupta2048 @Sc0rpi0n101
[x] Draft the social media announcement @Pradhvan
[x] Merge the website changes @aavrug

Post 5PM

[x] Deploy the blog and the website @palnabarun
[x] Send the social media announcements out @Pradhvan
[x] Announce on mailing list @sayanchowdhury

sayanchowdhury commented 4 years ago

Alolita Sharma Picture URL to be used in the blog: https://in.pycon.org/2020/assets/images/alolitasharma.jpg Bio Alolita Sharma is a software engineer and open source advocate best known for her work on language technology. While at the Wikimedia Foundation, she expanded access to Wikipedia across hundreds of languages. Currently, she sits on the board of the Unicode Consortium (the standards setting organization that defines how software should support all of the world’s written languages) and chairs the Indic language task force of the W3C Internationalization working group which sets the standards for how languages are supported on the World Wide Web. Previously, Sharma co-founded LinuxAsia (India’s first open source business conference) and served on the boards of several advocacy organizations including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) - India.

Picture for website and poster: https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/ca3512f4dfa95a03169c5a670a4c91a19b3077b4/2018/02/23/alolitas.png

Sc0rpi0n101 commented 4 years ago

Is there a twitter or some other handle we can also add? @sayanchowdhury

Sc0rpi0n101 commented 4 years ago

Blog: https://github.com/pythonindia/inpycon-blog/pull/316

sayanchowdhury commented 4 years ago

@Sc0rpi0n101 https://twitter.com/alolita

sayanchowdhury commented 4 years ago

Alolita Sharma is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. She leads open source strategy and engineering for projects 
focused on observability and search including OpenTelmetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Lucene and Open Distro for 
Elasticsearch. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. Alolita has built and led engineering teams at Wikipedia, 
Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Alolita is passionate about language technologies that enable everyone to participate in the Web's 
information revolution. She serves on the board of Unicode Consortium and is an invited expert on W3C and ECMA workgroups. 
She has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and SFLC.in. You can find her on Twitter @alolita.

iamaravindsekar commented 4 years ago

Please find the design file for Alolita Sharma in the drive folder by following the link below

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fn_cNfcsbquHVARt19yCMeGY932XPaI7?usp=sharing

Pradhvan commented 4 years ago

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1s2NTfT4_NdtX6_ZFX_KvGUXZa3vQLwIC?usp=sharing

Updated Keynote Poster LInk @sayanchowdhury

Pradhvan commented 4 years ago

Social Media Post

It's our pleasure to announce Alolita Sharma(@alolita) as the second speaker in the keynote lineup of #PyConIndia2020

Alolita is a Principal Technologist at @awscloud and currently serves on the board of @unicode.

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sayanchowdhury commented 4 years ago

Thanks everyone. Closing the issue.

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