Sugarplum, I'm up against the Indians. I make a lot of noise in my tech community for someone who has never successfully participated in GSOC or Outreachy before. All that talk about opensource and community development but deep down in my heart of hearts eh, I'm scared of the Indians. A small introduction: Sometime in August 2017 during the second semester holidays of my first year in the university, I attended a women techmaker meetup led by our tech lead, Amanda. Derick, Courage and Perside were there too. They told us about outreachy and open source and why its a good thing to apply and lots of other stuff. Speaker after speaker emphasized that the skills learnt during the 3months we will spend contributing, are second to none. They said that the communities are friendly, the contributors are friendly, they themselves are here to guide us when we need help and feel totally lost. Dear sugarplum, at that event, we went as far as opening the outreachy website and looking ...
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