We both got assigned and decided to move to discord
we went on a call the next day to share our ideas and started coding at our own pace, sending updates.
This was an interesting experience as we both had very ways of working. I sometime got frustrated to not receive any answers for a long time. It was good to learn about how to work in a long distance team.
https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant/issues/2695
After getting assigned, I started getting set up to test the code on local and work on the issue.
I forked the project and followed the readme file provided to have is running locally and I have been testing some things.
There was a bit of panic because the project uses typescript and react.js and I have never worked with this before. I should have thought about this before requesting the issue but it’s also a good way to learn. This is something I will be more careful about in the future.
I was assigned with another person that wanted to work on the issue. We started getting organised on how to work together. we found each other on the projects discord and got to know each other.
The task is to improve some UI from the website, mainly CSS. In the end it is not as scary as I thought it would be.
The collaboration is a very interesting experience, my next step is to get to work together.
After researching I got a few ideas:
+Contributing to Hydra (https://hydra.ojack.xyz/) a live coding open source project.
I would like to add documentation translation.
+I came across this project : https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant and I really liked it. I also noticed the issues were well explained and they accommodated beginners to contribute. I thought it would be nice to solve an issue.
I got in contact on both sides to see if I could help with this. I joined their communities on discord and shared about my situation and why I was interested. Reaching out was the best way for me to get a sense of which community I felt more comfortable joining.
The first step was to get to know some interesting projects to contribute to.
I have made some research in different places
Browsing GitHub, looking at topics I am interested in such as 3D modelling, coded visuals.
On social media such as reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/) and discord channels.
Talking to lecturers and technicians from CCI
Websites such as open source diversity, Good first issues
This was a very long process as I often got overwhelmed looking at issues and repos. Having 1 to 1 tutorials have been very useful to build confidence. I have very little insights on what project I could contribute to. It made me realise how important it is to attend events and stay up to date with the industry. In the future I will make sure to stay active and always look out for interesting events, projects and people.
I now need to brainstorm ideas and find what I would be interested in doing