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Lightning Talk Beginner First Talk

Own your internet space: Building lightning-fast personal blogs with Zola

Approved
Keerthana Rajesh Kumar
Keerthana Rajesh Kumar
Session Description

In today's era of the Internet, people have resorted to usage of closed-source microblogging and blogging platforms such as Blogger, X, Instagram due to complexity in usage and maintenance of WordPress or other blogging platforms.

This talk emphasizes the importance of personal blogging and owning an Internet presence by building a static, highly performant website in less than 15 minutes using Zola in a batteries included approach: RSS feed, social links, posts and deploying it to a hosting platform.

Key Takeaways

  1. Understand the importance of decentralization of Internet and personal blogs

  2. Build a static website by installing Zola and themes

  3. Deployment of website and extending it using categories

References

https://getzola.org

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project
Tutorial about using a FOSS project

Speakers

Keerthana Rajesh Kumar Director | FOSFEM

Keerthana is an advocate for DEIA in free and open source ecosystem and works on it as a part of FOSFEM by working with NGOs to empower specially abled people to enter and contribute to the realm of FOSS ecosystem. She is also a cybersecurity student and founder of PlumeSpaces focused on building free and open source solutions to address digital privacy and compliance.
Keerthana Rajesh Kumar https://www.libremusings.dev/

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Approved