Tech is huge thing, many things are involved in it, mastering everything is impossible and can't done by a single person also, that's why community is there. Our own effort multiplies with the many people and can create an incredible result that we can't think about to achieve by our own. Involving in global community is the most important factor to get benefits in life
Connection between Open Source and Community
Before moving forward to the actual point let's discuss about what is Open Source?
Free Software Foundation is an organization which aware us about the open source free software. It basically focuses on the Software freedom among the user base. There are many Open Source software are there which is regularly used by us in daily basis, but most of us unaware of this.
Few Open Source Famous Software
Linux & it's distribution (OS)
VLC media player
Android
Mozila Firefox
Android
But wait? Why I'm talking about this?
This Open Source softwares are maintained by people around the world, there are much more benifficient to involve in the open source community rather than contribute to the own project and keep it private. Open Source Softwares are actually a part of the tech community that is maintained by them and they gather people into them, encourage us to involve into the project and contribute to it as much as possible. Fo every software development field we always face bugs and we find the particular amount of the code whole over the internet, and we get some valid and actually working code piece in the community-driven site, the best example is Stack Overflow, where people around the world can share their code to others and can help others to get rid of the problem. Like this GitHub is also there which is a Platform for controlling of software, where people can upload their codebase, Project and keep their codebase open, such that people across the globe can see them and contribute to them, this way the project gets more popular and also used by many people, likewise Linux, Android, VLC media player, etc. are some famous open source project where anyone can find the codebase and can understand the actual engineering by reviewing the codebase and be involved into the Community. In the developer community, we prefer slack channels and discord servers for making connections with others.
My favourite Community related to Open Source
Keploy :
Keploy is a simple e2e testing toolkit for developers. It creates test cases and data mocks/stubs by recording API calls, DB queries, etc, making releases faster and highly reliable.
They conduct a fellowship program where people can apply also to get the maximum benefit out of it as it gives exposure of the community and support your journey by other developers if you successfully complete the fellowship program. Glad to be the part of this community
join here ๐ Keploy
Layer5:
Layer5 is the platform which provides us the cloud support by leveraging the cloud infrastructure in a more beeter manner. They've so many Open Source Project where people can contribute to it. I've recently joined it as I'm learning the Cloud technology gradually. I'm getting interest in it, definately consider to join.
join here ๐ Layer5
Eddiehub:
If you are beginner in Open Source, don't know how to contribute to Open Souce and want exposure to it, Definitely you should join the Eddiehub community founded by Eddie Jaoude
Linkfree is an amazing open source project where you can showcase your skills with all social handles to the world, The community is driven by the motto,
"Collabolation First, Code Second", yes they always proof this word true for all time, you can find bunch of amazing people, you can get support from them if you face any problem related to your project
join here ๐ Eddiehub
WeMakeDev:
WeMakeDev is a community of developers founded by Kunal Kushwaha
In this community, you can find some awesome people, where you can gain knowledge with the latest Tech News, hackathons, Events, meetups, Free content, and much more. People help each other to grow, you can also contribute to the community by adding value in any aspect you want. To motivate the developer they are currently running #BloggingChallange, where you've to write blogs among the given track. So what are you waiting for,
join here ๐ WeMakeDevs
4C:
4C is a community by Francesco Ciulla , He is an awesome guy with full knowledge of full-stack application. They have their own coomunity and Project called 4C, which is made by the community to the community. Also there you can find people around the world to collaborate with, they have their own Web3 guide website. They conduct coffee chat, meetings in regular basis, which can help you out to explore more and get perfect exposure about tech community culture. I have contributed in that community also. So what are you waiting for?
join here ๐ 4C Community
React Play by Tapas Adhikary :
React play is an Open Source project where you can find people contributing to that project. So basically it's an platform where you can showcase frontend skills with the React framework. You have to just fork the repo and add your project to it so that your project can be seen by the whole world as it's an open source project. You can make friends there also, unlike every community they conduct some bootcamps and events/hackathons. Like currently running on #2PlaysAMonth, where you have to make two react project and make a PR so that you can be got featured into the official site. So what are you waiting for?
join here ๐ React Play
The End folks ๐
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