Altering lives with communities

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Journey from corporate law to open source: reboots PyLadies Pune and grows India chapters from one to eight, audits 19,221 Fedora packages and top 2,500 PyPI packages and submits license PRs for unlicensed projects, prototypes an ESP8266 bunny that lights on Twitter mentions, maintains volunteer-led infrastructure and helps release Ansible 7.6.0, runs "Python for Everyone" training that places immigrant women into tech roles, and documents concrete mentorship, hiring and mental-health support outcomes.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:18What happened after the talk
3. 2:05I was like this is a trick
4. 2:40The tricky part
5. 3:14Its not interesting
6. 3:34Imposter syndrome
7. 4:53Compelling stories
8. 5:13The power of stories
9. 5:58Anweshas introduction
10. 6:53Backstory
11. 8:29Reading books
12. 9:06Starting her career
13. 10:05A moment of serendipity
14. 10:35I was ready for the change
15. 11:40New era of technology
16. 12:10Privileged position
17. 12:49Algorithmic change
18. 13:29Technology
19. 14:18IP Address
20. 15:20Swings
21. 16:01Mentoring new people
22. 16:29Software patenting
23. 17:49Library
24. 18:19C
25. 18:44Python
26. 19:13PiLadies
27. 20:11Red Hat
28. 21:35My hook
29. 22:34My project
30. 23:39Software license
31. 24:34Practical example
32. 25:03Define it
33. 25:53People like us
34. 26:27Giving talks at conferences
35. 26:54Pycon India
36. 28:49Introducing myself
37. 29:32Responsibility of a community member
38. 29:43Hardware is fun
39. 30:39Advices
40. 32:22Software Conservancy
41. 33:22Python US
42. 34:33Python US 2017
43. 35:48Mentorship
44. 36:09Infrastructure
45. 37:54Seek help
46. 38:26Acknowledge
47. 38:59Community Manager
48. 40:13Lockdown
49. 40:28Becoming a cloud engineer
50. 41:23Writing blog posts
51. 42:02Moving to Sweden
52. 42:49Joining PiLadies
53. 43:10Starting a new job
54. 44:03Starting Fedora
55. 44:50Joining Red Hat
56. 46:21Python for Everyone
57. 47:58Achievements
58. 49:07Journey
59. 49:52Conclusion

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