opensource.microsoft.com VS virtualcoffee.io

If you want to contribute to big projects like Microsoft or Drupal on your portfolio, feel free. However, if you want to increase your chances of getting your contributions reviewed and merged, I highly recommend aiming for smaller projects. Smaller open source projects tend not to get as crowded as others, which means you might get a higher chance of your contribution being reviewed and merged at a quick pace. As a contributor, I wanted to use Hacktoberfest as an opportunity to work with YAML files for open source projects. Luckily for me, I have been talking to Arshad Khan about this on X(Twitter), so I created greetings YAML files for their projects, FarmHub, Curls, and Tindog. It was a bit of a learning curve as the greetings won’t go through, but after reading that permissions: write-all is helpful in making third-party greetings work, I added that to the files, and bam, my PRs got merged! Hold on, before, you rush off to make Pull Requests, there’s just one strategy that I want to share with you.

Jesse what the fuck are you on about? Open source is pretty neat but you know microsoft has a open source page. If you are gonna say but linux blah blah blah microsoft is a platinum linux foundation member

M$ also has a page with some of their projects and contributions. https://opensource.microsoft.com/

Microsoft has come a really long way in expanding their platform out. They open sourced PowerShell and .NET are actively promoting others ( https://opensource.microsoft.com ) and have full Linux cloud support on Azure.

Microsoft themselves is one of the biggest open source contributors in the world. They've moved big projects like PowerShell to be completely open source. They even own GitHub and are one of the top Linux contributors. https://opensource.microsoft.com

It's ok, the commit is enough

Let’s go back to April of 2020. The early days of the pandemic when the world seemed to close in around us. The pandemic had left us isolated, uncertain, and craving connection. It was in this time that something beautiful was born: Virtual Coffee. I put out one, simple tweet: Is anyone interested in Virtual Coffee. And what started as one coffee turned into finding hope together in the one place we could safely gather: online. Virtual Coffee was built out of necessity but grown through compassion and shared experiences.

Thankfully I am part of an awesome online community of developers: https://virtualcoffee.io

I've been learning how to code for the past five months and let me tell you, it really is a whirlwind of emotions! After an amazing mentorship that ended too soon, I realized something: I thrive when I learn with others. That's when I found Virtual Coffee, a tech community that uplifts and celebrates wins of all kinds! Just one virtual coffee in, Chris Nowicki, a generous full stack developer in the community, already dropped a goldmine with us--learning and building in public!

I joined an online developer community called Virtual Coffee last year and saw Klesta’s post about Web Dev Path on their Slack channel. I remember I read her interview to know better about it. I was familiar with building something on my own but I didn’t have much experience to develop within a team. Web Dev Path sounded like a good place to improve skills to work in a team.

Next month at Virtual Coffee, we're doing a monthly challenge for public speaking. What are your favorite tips or resources?

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Since last September, I have had the opportunity to be an open source project maintainer. I help maintain some project repositories at Virtual Coffee, OpenSauced, and SheSharp communities. And now, I can see the view from a different perspective.

I'm part of some tech communities and love documentation. Together with the core team of the Virtual Coffee Community, I actively discuss ideas and contribute to creating and shaping the community documentation. From there, I was trusted to be the Documentation Team Lead.

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