From siddhikar28 at gmail.com Wed May 5 12:50:59 2021 From: siddhikar28 at gmail.com (Siddhika Rakshe) Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 22:20:59 +0530 Subject: [python-nigeria] [XPOST] PyCon India 2021 CFP Date Extension Announcement Message-ID: Hello everyone, Keeping in mind the current scenario - the sharp and wide spread of the pandemic, and the ongoing challenges, we understand that some people might not have enough time to complete their proposals in time. So, we are extending the CFP submission deadline for PyCon India 2021 to help speakers who are currently struggling with the effects of the pandemic in their country. The new deadline is : *May 22 23:59* *UTC+5:30* Read more on our blog. [1] If you want to get assistance regarding your proposal join our weekly mentorship calls. Read more: [2] [1]: https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/cfp-extension.html [2]: https://in.pycon.org/blog/2021/announce-mentorship.html Regards, Siddhika Rakshe PyCon India Team From siddhikar28 at gmail.com Thu May 20 10:05:39 2021 From: siddhikar28 at gmail.com (Siddhika Rakshe) Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 19:35:39 +0530 Subject: [python-nigeria] [X-POST] PyCon India 2021 Keynote: Alolita Sharma Message-ID: Hello Folks, We are happy to announce Alolita Sharma as our First Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2021. About Alolita Sharma ----------- Alolita is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she leads open source observability and development on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cortex, Grafana focused on metrics and log-based observability. Alolita also serves as a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and as a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She contributes to open standards on Unicode Technical Committees and W3C. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal and IBM. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. You can find her on Twitter @alolita. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1395366758454685696 Team PyCon India 2021