As clock is ticking for the Grace Hopper Celebrations of Women in Computing Conference GHC14 and I am doing final preparations to attend the conference, there are so many things I have to finish before I leave for Phoenix, AZ. Other than going over my travel plans, hotel and flight bookings and packing my luggage, I have to take care of a ton of stuff and be fully prepared and ready even before I arrive there. To avail this opportunity to its fullest, I have taken part in several different activities of my interest. I am excited to share these plans here, so that future attendees can also learn about what to expect at GHC14.
Open Source Day and Code-A-Thon for Humanity
This year at GHC14, Grace Hopper Open Source Day is the most exciting part. It is being held for the forth consecutive year and every year this program is getting better than before. To offer greater participation, GHC14 will be starting on Wednesday, Oct 8 with the
#opensource day. This year, the theme is either to learn about certain open source platforms OR participate in a half-day code-a-thon on humanitarian projects. The idea of working on an open source humanitarian project sounded very appealing to me. I also realized that working on an open source project will be an amazing way to polish my coding and test automation skills. Therefore, after going through all the available project options, I have signed up for the Systers-Peace Corps Partnership project. I cannot wait to start automating some regression tests using Python and Selenium for their Mailman project. You can learn more about those projects here. I also recommend reading this post by Sri Velagapudi, a Googler sharing her experiences, to know more about the GHC #opensource day.
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Volunteer Blogger for GHC14
Another very exciting opportunity I am really happy to be part of, is GHC's Community Volunteer's team. To me, there is nothing more exciting and fulfilling than contributing as a volunteer. Every year, GHC has a vibrant and active community of bloggers and note-takers. These volunteers become eyes and ears for the non-attendees, and share what they hear and see at the conference. I am thrilled that I will be able to do it this year. I have already signed up for a few sessions I am planning to attend and blog at the same time. This seems like a pretty big challenge to me right now, but I am up for it. I am shooting for all the three #keynote sessions at the conference. These will be keynots by Shafi Goldwasser and Arati Prabhakar, a conversation session covering Maria Klawe and Satya Nadella , a leadership presentation featuring Office Politics by Joe Miller and a couple of panel discussions. I am really excited that I will be attending and sharing these sessions at the same time. Now, the only catch is to be able to get there before all the seats are gone.
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| Photo Courtsey: http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2014/10/2014-10-16-grace-hopper-celebration-of.html |
To me it seems like a pretty busy schedule, there is so much to do in a very short time. In your view what is the most exciting part of attending #ghc14?
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