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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index fb8a0d8c1..b656287ff 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -8,18 +8,18 @@ We welcome contributions of any size and skill level. As an open source project, Thanks to a combination of free time, hard work and luck I was able to contribute and eventually become a lead maintainer of the project. For a long time I was one of 3 people in the world who could deploy some code (`npm publish request`) that would get immediately picked up by almost every Node.js project on the planet via `npm install`. It was exciting and a bit scary 😅. -At the same time I had a day job where I was a junior software developer at a random tech co. I was surrounded by interesting projects, but I mostly did busy work. I had recently asked my manager if I could go up for a promotion and he said no. At least they paid me! +At the same time, I had a day job where I was a junior software developer at a random tech co. I was surrounded by interesting projects, but I mostly did busy work. I had asked my manager if I could go up for a promotion and he said no. At least they paid me! -Our Astro community is my personal attempt to share this experience with others who might be looking for the same thing as I was. Everyone is at different stages in their life and career, and my personal experience as "slightly bored junior developer" isn't a one-size-fits-all for why you should get involved in open source. Instead, here are some of my favorite things that I got out of open source development that I think apply to anyone: +The Astro community is my personal attempt to share this experience with others who might be looking for the same thing as I was. Everyone is at different stages in their life and career, and my personal experience as "slightly bored junior developer" isn't a one-size-fits-all for why you should get involved in open source. Instead, here are some of my favorite things that I got out of open source development that I think apply to anyone: -- **Job opportunities:** Having the line "maintains code used by millions of developers" on my resume was an incredible super-power for someone so early in their career. -- **Instant cred:** I was accepted to give my first public talk at a conference based solely on my open source work. It was a terrible talk, but who's first talk is good!? :D +- **Job opportunities:** Having the line "maintains code used by millions of developers" on my resume was an incredible way to stand out in every single job search I did for years afterwards. +- **Instant dev cred:** I was accepted to give my first public talk at a conference based solely on my open source work. It was a terrible talk, but who's first talk is good!? :D - **Leadership/mentorship opportunities:** I went from having zero responsibility at work to being a respected voice/opinion in the `request` GitHub issues and PRs. -- **Learning from smart people:** At the same time, I got to meet and work with so many smart people across the open source ecosystem. -- **preventing imposter syndrome:** Sure, I was still just a kid, but having an actual human connection to developers who I looked up to on Twitter helped dispell the idea that "oh, **I** could never be like that." +- **Learning from smart people:** I got to meet and learn from so many smart people across the open source ecosystem. +- **preventing imposter syndrome:** Sure, I was still just a kid, but having an actual human connection to developers who I looked up to at the time helped dispell the idea that "oh, **I** could never be like that." - **Making friends in the larger community:** The creator of request, [@mikeal](https://twitter.com/mikeal), is still a friend to this day. -If any of this sounds interesting, I hope you consider getting involved with Astro. Come say hi in the **#new-contributors** channel on Discord, anytime. +If any of this sounds interesting, I hope you consider getting involved with Astro. Come say hi in the **#new-contributors** channel on Discord, anytime. We're always around and value contributions of any shape/size. # Contributor Manual |