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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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Update monthly challenge page to Hacktoberfest — Virtual Coffee

Virtual Coffee: In this project, you add your name and a list of open source projects you recommend for Hacktoberfest. They provide specific steps to look out for in open source projects. It’s a great way to learn the traits of a healthy open source project. Since I’ve been contributing to open-source projects a bit before Preptember, I decided to list projects that have been helpful in my journey. (note: you have to join their group in order to contribute. Here’s a link: https://virtualcoffee.io/).

I will guide and answer open-source questions for anyone who needs one. And I'm volunteering in some tech communities — Virtual Coffee, OpenSauced and SheSharp — to be a mentor, a Hacktoberfest support, and a maintainer during the event.

It’s my favorite time of the year! This year I participated as a mentor, contributor, and maintainer. I got to work on my postpartum wellness app with others and launch a new Deepgram project as a maintainer that I really enjoyed working on. It’s a chrome extension that allows the user to get transcripts in a browser tab, and we’re working on functionality to have translation available as well. I plan on keeping this going as long as the ideas are flowing and folks find it helpful. If you want to check it out, here’s the GitHub repo. I also supported the Virtual Coffee Hacktoberfest Initiative. If you want to read more about that, check out Dan Ott’s post.

Deepgram Translation Chrome Extension - A TypeScript chrome extension that uses Deepgram to provide live transcription and translation.