2021 year started slow later picked up the pace. Lot of learning this year with new technology stack, headless, JSS, ReactJS, Docker and AKS. Ordercloud and moosend in the pipeline for 2022. I wish I had more time to write about my JSS journey. But I will do a series in 2022. I have shared a lot of issue fixes and some useful tips n tricks. I would take this opportunity to self-evaluate, 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.

Awards

Happy that we were able to secure the award for the second time in a row

• Experience Awards 2021 (Honorable Mention)

Blog Posts

15k Views this year
Happy the blogs are helping the community.

• Sitecore 10 Certification Tips and Tricks
• Sitecore 10 Identity Azure AD ExternalUserBuilder No matching constructor was found - Error Fix
• Sitecore TDS Common Errors and Fixes
• Docker Engine failed to start - Fix
• Sitecore Development with Windows Terminal
• Sitecore TDS Tips and Tricks
• Sitecore 503 Service Unavailable Error Fix
• Sitecore Experience Forms - The anti-forgery cookie token and form field token do not match
• Sitecore Experience Forms Export not working or slow

Certification

• Sitecore Experience Solution 10 .NET Developer Certification

Contribution

• Sitecore Bugs
  • 325348 Hashtag in URL with query string is being moved to the end
  • 509615 “sitecore-jss-react-forms” generated checkboxes and radio buttons fails WCAG 2.1 Technique H44
• Sitecore Docker Pluralsight Course Review
• Sitecore Beta Testing
• Offline Mentoring
  • Mentor developers
  • Mentor aspiring MVP’s
• Open Source
  • Minor updates and enhancement to the JSS
  • https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/757
  • https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/789

Participation

• Symposium 2021
  • Brain date and share knowledge to aspiring MVP's
• Virtual Developer Day
• Attending Meetups and sharing knowledge in following locations
  • Atlantic Canada
  • Boston
  • Budapest
  • Cleveland
  • Queen City
  • Minneapolis
  • New England
  • Portland
  • SUG India
  • SUG Pune
  • Toronto
• Slack and Stack overflow
• Hackathon
• Sitecore Lunches
  • Sharing the technical challenges and solutions

Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group (PGHSUG)

11 Meetups hosted
81 Members growth (254)
19 Participation (Average)

• February 26, 2021 - Leap Year Meet and Greet (Virtual)
• March 25, 2021 - The Layout Service - Under the hood (Virtual)
• April 21, 2021 - The Sitecore Experience Edge: Headless Content Delivery At-Scale (Virtual)
• May 18, 2021 - Building omni-channel experiences with Sitecore Experience Edge & Mobile Blazor
• June 9, 2021 - Dockerize your Sitecore module
• July 13, 2021 - Learn to Love the Sitecore Upgrade
• August 10, 2021 - Personalize Sitecore Search Experience
• September 28, 2021 - Content Hub Development - Making people successful in a changing world
• October 26, 2021 - Build a static website using Sitecore Experience Edge for Content Hub & Next.js
• November 10, 2021 - Sitecore latest and greatest together - 10.1 + JSS + SXA + Rendering Host in AKS
• December 7, 2021 - SaaS to the Future

YouTube

PGHSUG Channel

10 Video Published
61 Subscribers

• Sitecore latest and greatest together 10 1 + JSS + SXA + Rendering Host in AKS - PGHSUG
• Build a static website using Sitecore Experience Edge for Content Hub and NextJS by Himadri - PGHSUG
• Content Hub Development! Making people successful in a changing world - PGHSUG
• Personalize your Sitecore Search Experience – PGHSUG
• Learn to Love the Sitecore Upgrade with Zack - PGHSUG
• Dockerize your Sitecore Module – PGHSUG
• The Sitecore Experience Edge: Headless Content Delivery At-Scale – PGHSUG
• Building omni-channel experiences with Sitecore Experience Edge and Mobile Blazor – PGHSUG
• Build ASP.NET Core component for Sitecore 10 with Adam – PGHSUG
• The Layout Service - Under the Hood by Andy Parry – PGHSUG

2022 Goals:

Explore and contribute

• Headless
• Composable DXP
• Sitecore Send
• Order cloud
• Content Hub

Organize

• Keeping the group active with interesting topics every month
• Reaching out to Sitecore Thought Leaders showcasing their expertise
• Provide open stage for new Presenters

Share the Knowledge

• Presentation
  • Sitecore Symposium
  • SUGCON
  • Virtual Developer day
• Support open source
• SUG Meetups
• YouTube Videos (Hopefully this year I can do it)
• Blogs

There is one thing constant in this world and that is change

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