2020 a year we want to be over. Wish everything was well with you and your family during this tough times. Let's look at the positive things for a moment. Virtual became the new normal, which helped to make virtual meetups. The virtual Meetups opened up people to attend from anywhere from the world. We get to spend more time with family. Save time and reduce pollution, spend time on learning and sharing the knowledge. Measuring helps in greater success, my contributions for the Sitecore Community this year.

Thank you to my family in supporting my efforts in running the user groups in the evenings after work.
Thank you to the awesome community and everyone for the support.

Presentations

• Feb 11 - Sitecore 9.3 new features and live installation - SUG Pittsburgh
• Mar 26 - Smart Experience Forms - SUG Pittsburgh
• Jul 15 - What's new in Sitecore 9.3 and Live Installation - SUG Queen City
• Oct 28 - Beyond rules-based personalization in healthcare - Sitecore Symposium (Supported)

Awards

• Experience Awards 2020 (Honorable Mention)

Certification

• Sitecore Experience Solution 9.3 Developer
• Sitecore 8.2 Professional Devleoper

Contribution

Blog Posts

• 14 Jan - Sitecore Desktop Database selection shows duplicate or non-existent database
• 14 Feb - Sitecore Admin Password Hacks
• 31 Mar - Remote Debugging Sitecore with Visual Studio
• 15 Apr - Sitecore 9.1 Experience Editor Performance Issue
• 20 May - Sitecore 9.3 Certification Tips and Tricks
• 10 Jun - Secret recipe of Sitecore Device Detection
• 16 Jul - Sitecore Experience Forms - Add to a webpage without layouts
• 12 Aug - Sitecore 9 - An error occurred when trying to Log-in
• 7 Oct - Spice up Sitecore Performance with IIS
• 9 Nov - Sitecore Experience Forms - Bad JSON escape sequence

Sitecore Bugs

I was able to log Sitecore bugs part of my migration.

• 185485 Experience Editor Performance
• 197548 Sitecore 9.1 Unable to add components in experience editor
• 249771 SOLR Query Error
• 305016 SOLR Web Indexing Error
• 349705 Path analyzer site level filters not working
• 369771 Admin support package generator logs issue
• 223702 When logging Sitecore indicates "Error: An error occurred"

Offline Activities

• I am driving the Sitecore training initiative in Computer Enterprises Inc. Mentoring college graduates onshore and Cross train .NET developers off shore.
• Guide and help Developers for training and certification (LinkedIn and Twitter)

Participation

• Symposium 2020
• SUGCON
• All Pittsburgh SUG
• Most of the SUG Boston/ Queen City/ Cleveland meetups
• Most of the Sitecore Lunches
• Slack and Stack overflow
• Hackathon

Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group (PGHSUG)

11 Meetups
173 Members
19 RSVP (Average)
12 Participation (Average)

• Feb 11 - What's new with Sitecore 9.3 and Live Install
• Mar 26 - Virtual Smart Experience Forms with Sitecore
• Apr 22 - Marketing Automation - Building Blocks (Virtual)
• May 27 - Automate all the Things (Virtual)
• Jun 23 - Optimizing Performance in Sitecore (Virtual)
• Jul 22 - Dive into Sitecore Docker with Jammykam (Virtual)
• Aug 18 - Sitecore Content Hub 101 (Virtual)
• Sep 23 - Sitecore Content Hub Integration by Akshay (Virtual)
• Oct 14, 2020 - How far you can go with Sitecore JSS? (Virtual)
• Nov 11, 2020 – Containers with Rob (Virtual)
• Dec 15, 2020 – Build ASP.NET Core component for Sitecore 10 with Adam (Virtual)

YouTube

PGHSUG Channel (Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group)

• Dive into Sitecore Docker with Jammykam – PGHSUG
• Sitecore Content Hub 101 – PGHSUG
• Optimizing Performance in Sitecore – PGHSUG
• Kick off Kubernetes (K8s) for Sitecore with Rob – PGHSUG
• How far you can go with JSS? – PGHSUG
• Sitecore Content Hub Integration by Akshay – PGHSUG

2021 Goals

Explore and contribute

• Containers and Kubernetes
• AI Personalization
• Content Hub
• Sitecore 10+

Organize

• Monthly meetups with Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group

Share the Knowledge

• Open source module
• SUG Meetup
• YouTube Videos
• Blogs
• Sitecore Symposium 2021
• SUGCON

These times are hard but they will pass. Take one day at a time and lets keep moving.

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