Meet our Keynote Speakers: Sumana Harihareswara

Our keynote speaker, Sumana Harihareswara, reflects on her journey in open source, from starting as an open source user, contributor, to starting a career in open source. Did you know that Sumana also does stand up comedy? Come join and meet Sumana at PyCon US! Bio: Sumana Harihareswara (https://harihareswara.net/) is an open source contributor and leader who has managed work on pip, PyPI, GNOME, MediaWiki, HTTPS Everywhere, autoconf, GNU Mailman, and other projects -- and who is working on a book to teach what she's learned along the way. Between 2016 and 2021, Harihareswara led fundraising for and managed the next-generation overhauls of PyPI and of pip's dependency resolver and user experience. Her work has earned her an Open Source Citizen Award and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus. Harihareswara has keynoted LibrePlanet, code4lib, SeaGL, and other conventions, and has previously spoken at PyCon US and PyGotham (https://www.harihareswara.net/talks.html). She also performs stand-up comedy, and volunteers to improve local emergency preparedness and open data. She lives in New York City, runs Changeset Consulting (http://changeset.nyc/), and microblogs in the Fediverse (https://social.coop/@brainwane/). PyCon US is the largest Python community conference in the world. May 15 - 23, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Register: https://us.pycon.org/2024/registration/register Full schedule: https://us.pycon.org/2024/ Keynote speakers: https://us.pycon.org/2024/about/keynote-speakers/ This video was produced, directed, and edited by Mariatta Wijaya (https://mariatta.ca) #PyConUS #PyCon #ThePSF #Python #Community #Conference