Events
Blogs around events, conferences, and meetups.
PyCon AU 2023
This August, I had the incredible opportunity to attend PyCon AU 2023, held at the picturesque Adelaide Convention Centre, right on the bank of the Torrens River. It was my first tech conference in Australia, and the excitement of sharing this experience with my colleagues made it even more memorable. The conference kicked off on a powerful note with J. Rosenbaum, a Melbourne-based AI artist and researcher, delivering the opening keynote titled “Roll for Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place.
August 22, 2023
FOSSASIA 2019
March 14, 2019 - the new warm day - when FOSSASIA turns 10! Folks, celebrating the eve with great enthusiasm and passion at the same venue that of last year, LifeLong Learning Institute Singapore. People queued up at the registration desk this morning waiting to collect their badges. The summit opened up with a series of keynotes. First one featured Dr Koh Tat Suan (Director Lifelong Learning Institute) who talked about contribution of FOSSASIA and SkillsFuture among Singaporeans.
March 16, 2019
flock 2018
After the US, I was really excited to visit Europe this time for fedora flock conference. A lot of preparation: air tickets, stay, documents for VISA and more. Unfortunately we got our VISA declined and everything hanged. We re-applied and got it approved in second time that to just two days before to the planned take off. Nevertheless did all of slides/demo, shopping & packing and was ready for cab pickup. This time Pune to Mumbai was really relaxing and we reached Mumbai Airport before time! With some flight delay, reached Frankfurt Airport landing was really smooth. By evening we reached the beautiful city - Dresden. Venue for the conference this year was - The Radisson Blu Park Hotel & Conference Centre at Radebeul.
August 20, 2018
FOSSASIA 2018
After March 2016, this year I get chance to come back to this beautiful city - Singapore !! The country continues to hold best rankings in commerce, finance, transport & technology. The premier open source summit FOSSASIA held on 22nd March to 25th March. This year Life Long Learning Institute hosted the event. LLI is located at Paya Lebar and serves gateway to learning opportunities since long time. It is very nearby to MRT and in the heart of city.
March 31, 2018
i18n FAD
This time Pune, India was selected for Fedora Activity Day 2017 of Internationalization (i18n) Engineering. Folks from all over APAC and EMEA joined together to exchange ideas, fix long pending bugs and hack on new ideas. Thanks to Fedora Council for approving budget and to Bex for coordinating & moving i18n FAD arrangements further! Jens, Parag and Pravin played vital roles in organising everything required to make it happen. I was really excited to meet my entire team for the first time! And it was Sunday evening, 19th Nov 2017 we all met together and went Amanora Food Court to share evening moments over snacks.
November 28, 2017
flock 2017
“Reporting time was 7:30 pm, and it’s 7:50, still you are saying it will take another 15 mins” this was my words while I was waiting and talking with cab driver. I was travelling to US for the very first time, and was little excited. We covered the distance between Pune and Mumbai Airport in decent time and managed to reach there by 12:30 midnight. Our zone was E in the plane and it was Emirates. We reached Dubai early morning. I tried to capture Burj Khalifa. And then was starting of a long journey - Dubai to Boston. It was 5-6 movies long. Had great food and drinks. And a decent 3 hrs nap. All thanks to Emirates crew and services! We landed Boston 15 past 14 hrs, in the afternoon and waited for 25-30 mins at Bus stop to Hyannis, Cape Cod. Sun was about to sign-off for the day and street lights were yet to glow when we had great MacD burger, and headed towards The resort and conference center - flock'17 venue!
September 1, 2017
PythonPune MeetUp 2016
It has been long attending some talks - specially around Python!! And PythonPune looks perfect to meet some folks working with Python in the happening city - PUNE. If I remember correctly it was 6:30 I woke up and dropped text to my friend at Baner - planning to spend latter half of the day at your place - as venue was at GSLabs, Baner. Opening Chandan Kumar greeted everyone there and with some backgrounds/purpose of this meetup called for a round of introduction - we had the strength of 50 - with some new faces. Nevertheless common goal was to learn new things. Akshay Goel started the talks with his discussions around pyautogui - an awesome module to automate keyboard/mouse events.
October 22, 2016
FOSSASIA 2016
AI 380 Delhi to Singapore 5:30 AM All were sleeping and cabin crew announces we are about to land at Singapore Changi Airport in 15 minutes. This thrills almost all passengers travelling to Singapore for the first time including me. Within seconds fog started appearing on windows and we landed smoothly. This took 10 mins getting from the arrival gate to immigration post. And after 20 mins or so I completed baggage claim and was heading Terminal 3 arrivals. Met with my colleagues there and by 10:15 AM we boarded MRT to Red Hat Singapore Office. In the evening explored Bugis Street and enjoyed food at Little India - this lead to end of 0th day.
March 28, 2016