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Layer5 Newcomers Meeting - July 8th, 2021

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A

Today is a newcomers call for the 8th july 2021.

B

All right and we're going to have to do an introduction, because that is a ritual, so we'll go around.

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um I will start and tell you about myself and my day and then I'll call the next person and we'll go on and on until you reach the last person. So hello, everyone, my name is anita human and I am a mesh mate in the community. I started contributing for it's been a year now, so I think happy anniversary to me yeah and going really well. I've been trying to um take on a new project and fix new tasks. So yeah my day is going great and um yeah so de banji.

B

Can you tell us how your day is going.

B

I I hope I pronounced name right.

B

Are you asking me yes, steve johnny? Oh sorry, okay, I'll I'll, take that next time just tell us how your day is going and how you are generally. Yes, I'm good.

B

All right, then, you can just pass it on to the next person once you're done.

B

Yeah, I guess that's it. I have nothing much to say today.

B

That's fine, that's fine! I.

C

I think we lost her voice in the middle. I think she was saying something else ah yeah. I also think because.

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Couple of I think, just a month ago and I started contributing to this machine, and it was quite, I just feel lucky that I joined it. I mainly uh contribute in the backend part for the colon.

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uh So I think, whoever new to this call, you can say a high on this call and give a little brief on yourself.

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Like anyone new to this.

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And I think it's a general introduction, so everyone can make an introduction just tag, anyone in the community to go next and they will go on and on until you reach the last person.

A

Let's start with diwali.

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uh Hello: everyone, my name is ashish, I'm an audible.

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D

Okay, so so I basically work on back end. I have recently learned golang, because I got to know about this project actually three months ago from one of my friends who's, actually a poor maintainer in the project. His name is, and he used to talk a lot about this uh project.

D

So uh from there I picked up golang and then from there I learned about content orchestration and from there I got I learned about service meshes, and then I found that this project I went through a little bit in the source code in the architecture and I'm really interested in contributing to it in the lang part mostly.

B

Yay, we won a soul.

B

Welcome to the community, you can just call anyone.

F

Next, hello, I'm audible.

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Yeah, I'm a third year undergraduate student and I'm contributing in layer five project as a devops teacher.

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Sim, that is, first year, cse jody institute of technology, doing my computer science and I reached here by winning a hackathon with along my few friends over here and so yeah. I am very keen in learning new things and contributing to mystery soon, so that I I I can learn many more things yeah. I think that much is enough.

G

As of today, I didn't have a great day. There were few troubles yeah, that's. I think that is yeah enough. To conclude, thank you. Thank you. Satan.

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E

Yeah so hello guys, my name is bharat and, as krishna said, I was actually a teammate. I was in the same team, so I'm in a first year, computer science and uh I came here through uh hackathon and I look forward to conjugating and in the prime right now in the process of learning golang.

E

So, let's see where that takes me yeah, that's about it for me today. Thank you.

A

That's good, then. We have.

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You want to say hi like how is it.

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um If you're having a mic difficulty, it's okay, you can always use the chat, they understand yeah. You can use it so.

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Yeah, I think I'm.

B

Yeah, can you drop your introduction in the chats cause? I think I want to really know you.

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Yeah, you can drop an interaction with that, so next we can move on to debuff.

H

I joined the community earlier this week and I've attended some other meets as well. So this is probably the fourth time I'm introducing myself so anyways. I had taken up a few issues. I've been working on them and I have to say everyone I have interacted with till now has been so warm and welcoming and helpful. So I've had a really good time till now and I hope I can contribute more as I go along.

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A

That's great next, uh you want.

C

To say something: yeah hi everyone- I am aditya- I joined last week, wednesday, I suppose so. This is my second newcomers meeting. I am a third year computer science student at kit and I joined because of shanthan. He introduced me to the society, so I have worked mostly on ui till now, some back end and I've recently started uh contributing to layer five labs.

C

So I look forward on contributing a lot more in the future. Thanks.

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So this is actually, I think, my second newcomers meeting and I joined this layer- five community. I think two weeks back, I just I was just hopping through cncf organizations, and I saw this great community- and I just added myself here and so far it's good. It's very welcoming. Actually I have solved several issues and working on few of them also and I'm a second year, css student and just uh one be back one week back just started: learning golang and some kubernetes stuff.

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That's me thanks.

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My name is push uh I am from uh third year jad.

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Oh I'm right now working on my react skills and I want to know about this community from my friend who is working in back end really, I hope to see.

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A

That's great now we next have fun and then do you. Wanna stay higher.

J

Yeah, hello, hello, everyone can you guys hear me, am I audible.

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Seems like it seems, like a lot of people are having network views and stuff so yeah. So anyway, uh my name is annelin and um I joined the leafy community community same. I think, like two weeks back, I'm not sure I'm just starting out learning the complete basics, because I just wanted to see how devops and stuff work and this project is rather interesting, so yeah, I'm just in the learning phases and getting to know the community better nice to meet you all.

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Nice yeah, this community is really good like I I just I joined last month and I felt quite comfortable to everyone. They were so much helpful and if you stuck anywhere just ping them in the slack, I hope everyone has joined the slack group. uh Some of the other members will help you out like if you run into any problem like starting from setting up of mercury and building.

A

So now, if have, I missed anyone giving the introduction.

B

Yeah, I think, okay, I don't see her anymore.

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um If you haven't made an introduction, you can always do that in the chat or you can draw back our attention because we want to know you and we want you to get to know us in the community. So if we forgot to mention your name, please draw our attention and would have your introduction.

C

Yeah some people forgotten to write their name on the doc, because I think that there are 16 people and there are only.

B

Exactly what I just noticed and is shinya.

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B

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm terrible at your name.

B

Okay, I'm getting there.

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I shift I, I don't think I've heard.

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You I'm I'm sharing that dog's link. I think someone has missed the dogs.

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So we have a new member uh nathan.

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And I've been looking to enhance my skills so recently I've joined like day before yesterday in mashari I've been looking to github uh issues, uh newcomers issues- I really wanted to contribute in it. So that's why that's why I joined it. It's it's really. Nice community and I've been looking into it. I actually, I cloned quite a lot of uh reports to run and then like it's, it's going it's going on so that that's all like, and I I I hope I will contribute in future quite quite soon.

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I told that it's great to hear like you, can contribute it's a very good place to contribute for this thing.

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You can contribute.

A

Back in we have devops, you can contribute in any of this. So, let's start with the topics for today.

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Like if I think, I hope that, if you have all joined in the slack group and the new commerce meeting form is available and this place, you can just fill up this form.

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So now the next question is: is this call strictly for newcomers? No, like anyone can join this call and get a hands-on like whoever is new and get a hands-on on with the mystery.

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Okay, now the next question is: why do we need to do this new commercial? So this new commerce call is mainly uh mainly takes place to for the new ones who are new to this organization and want to contribute and want a walkthrough of the projects. So in this newcomers call we just walk you through our project and if you find any bug in our project, you can always make that as an issue. We will look into that then, like what is the mesh measurement, uh the measurement are someone like you.

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If you go to this place, you will find that we have.

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You can contact with them; they will help you with the starting up of your projects, how to start with your projects and how to set up all the things they are very friendly and they they will guide you through all the stuffs. You need to start your project, you can contact them. You can get your message from this page.

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If you go to this measurement page, you will find them just contact with them the. So this is what a measurement is you can find, uh so we have anita over.

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Here not only measurement, you can ask me.

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Okay, yeah, I'm just saying hello: I'm over here.

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And if you go to slack, you can ping any anyone. Anyone is there to help you out, especially, and it is really helpful now.

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The next thing is that we have like four five front end sites which are, I will show you one by one. The first one is this measure dot iu. uh This is the actually the one of the current and the biggest project uh in the layer. Five you can see, and this is also under sales here you can have a look on this website. Those who are in the ui part you can see this uh pages, you can change. We have also have feedback file for that.

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You can do if you find that if there is a bug or you it like, you want some colors to be changed or like something great can happen. If you do some changes, you can obviously propose that this. This is the site. You can also run merchandising.

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By choosing this platform, uh I will show you a demo of measure.

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So this is actually the series dashboard which I set up.

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You just have to install the machine ctl. The mystery signal is actually the uh back-end, but like we communicate with measuring with the measuring ctl commands. So, uh okay, this this one is the measure is ui. This is actually running on my local host, so this is a place where you can learn about measuring these are all the adapters you can ping adapters. uh You can do these things like you can just explore this thing. Only the prerequisite is that you have to.

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You have to run a kubernetes class behind your application to start up this application.

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So uh this is the measures dashboard.

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Now we have this talks uh documentation on messaging. You can. You can get started from here like uh what are the things that we should do like the basic introductions on measuring how to set up your development environment on all those things you can find in the stock.

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uh If you find any park in the docks- or you want to improve something in the docks, you can raise that and as an issue for the dog's purpose like for the first time when I came into this community, I saw that when I was running this command, it was asking me to provide the platform- and this was not mentioned in this part. So what I did was that I erased it as an issue, and this was the my second pr which got marked.

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This was some small corrections which I did in the documentation part starting with this documentation. Now you can find some bugs over here. You can solve that also. So this is also a place. This documentation actually runs on. Jk uses, j file, html and css.

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uh If you wanna see the documentation uh like where is this documentation like this? One is the messages project. Whenever you go to docs, you will find that this all the things that are about the documentation and if you want to run this documentation locally, you can set up your development environment uh by following these steps.

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This one this uh you can also set this as a uh you, can uh call the machine ctl from this folder. Also, like you just have to build this uh binary version of this video, and then you can just use dots like measuring ctrl system start and.

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So the people who are new to go- you can see this one everything is listed under this, a single folder internal cli. You will find all the commands listed over here. uh There is also a command tracker for the mystery ctrl.

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This is for the people who are learning go, and now I think we are done part next, oh, okay. One more thing is that for this ui, which I have shown you, you can also work on this ui. Also, by going to this.

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Ui you have to build this local, you have to build you all you have. The prerequisite is that you have to start your missionary at localhost 890814, and then you can just do a make, build ui and make run ui dev in this folder.

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Then you will get to know you will get the ui part of that and you can change accordingly. So this one is for the measure is a dashboard changes. You can put it from here why?

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Okay, so I think we are done with it. Now we have the next project smb service.

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The next one is the get nighthawk.tip. This is actually a new project which is going on in the community, so this uh in this project there are like there can be some bugs and all you can.

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You will download, you will see that.

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You can change a lot of things over here, like many things are going on, and if you want to learn music, you can just go to this learn section. You will find that there are some books workshop and services yeah. If you go to the service mesh lab, you will get a hands-on with like how misery works and how like measuring and histo works. Measuring measuring.

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You just have to open this, and you just have to start this scenario, and you will find that uh you will get the basics of like how it's done in this way. Actually, like most of us, have learned the machine. You can also start with this.

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This one is about a layer, 5 website. You can also change. This is mainly, I think this is in react and gatsby, and also.

B

No I'm just affirming to what you said confirming to where it says.

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Oh okay, so uh if you want to see this, it's in layer repository you'll find this uh layer 5 website in this layer, 5 repository.

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So I think the people who are familiar with the react can easily make out like how to run this, and for that we have a readme file.

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In the contributing md file, you will have the following things like how to set up this environment for running this layer, 5 website locally and do the changes and push that you will find it over here and, most importantly, is that whenever you commit the commit, you have to use this sign off, or else the dco will fail, and you have to use this uh thing.

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You will find this over here like how to sign off. So this is really important. All right.

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This one was the doctor.

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Okay, the next is the amazon tutorial. Let's see okay, so this is the actually the hands-on tutorials like uh if you go through this. There are two sections: if you start this one, this is the same things which I show you in the layer.

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Like a nice idea about how misery works with all these axes,.

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Oh yeah, now these are the some of the former tutorials which our like measurements are. Our contributors has already made a recording is our recording slide, and this, I think, are in our youtube.

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I actually started learning go I think, from after doing this tutorial, this was really nice, so yeah like you, can go to this all these recordings.

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Okay, so all the repositories, if you go to this page, you will find the layer files repository. So currently we have five uh four projects like one was the layer file, the other one was the service mesh performance, the other one is pattern.

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These are the four uh repositories the front end project which we work, this layer, five dot io talk, uh the all the things we just showed. I've shown you uh this is. I think this is the currently ongoing project, the mesh map. This is the ongoing project right now, and this get nighthawk is also new. uh Get nighthawk is mainly based on jk and html css.

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uh And this layer, five dot io learning- is also an upcoming project. Okay, the another one was that this discuss forum, like we have discussed.

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Has already answered those doubts, so you can ask any of your questions over here. Just just log in over here sign up, you can post anything. You want like any uh towers, you have. You can post it over here. We any of us will try if you know any of the answers. You can also give your answers.

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And if you want to make some changes in this uh discuss later, you have to create a account in this staging discussion, and then you can do whatever changes you want like. If you want any changes, you can create account over here and just pass writing charge button to give you the access.

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You can work on.

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This okay, so these were some of the front-end projects and the back-end project. We are concentrating.

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Mesh bank has not yet started.

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Some of the back-end projects and our back-end projects are mainly whole and uh there is the web assembly filters possible, which.

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I am showing you that.

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And you can join in that one to learn more about this possible filter. We actually all are learning, so you can also join in that.

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Like if you go to this image up, this is one of the demo applications written in photoshop.

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Okay, you can just hop into this other project and see what is going on over here. If any of, if you get interest in any of it, you can create an issue or if an issue is already there, you can just tell us last night we will assign you, we will start.

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And now like, if you are searching for any good.

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Health wanted issues are not so difficult. You can solve it. If you just have a little brainstorm, then I think you can get the solutions easy. You can work on this issues. These are like health wanted, first time or issue.

A

Okay, so any of you have any doubt till this time you want to know.

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Okay, um I want to add something so um like um scienton mentioned earlier, we usually have tutorials in the community, because a lot of persons are asking questions. I want to learn this particular topic. I want a beginner's guide on this particular topic, so we're trying to put up videos and create more content that would help you to you know, understand everything that you want to understand.

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So if you have a video request that you want to um request, you can just check the link under that says: survey form um tutorials yeah, so just check the link there that says tutorial recording to do this. You can write the the topic. You want a video content on and also if you feel, you're good with a particular topic, and you want to teach us about it, I'm always open to learn. So you can just write your topic write your name and your email under the topic.

B

You want to teach and would create time to record your video and tutorials.

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And yes, I want to point out also all these calls all of her community calls are recorded. So in case you miss anyone. You can always refer back to them for references, and you can always share it to your contacts, to you know, help them. If you want to that's all up to you. We have a youtube playlist down here that that records every of the meetings that we have. So you can always refer to that at your convenience.

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So if you haven't subscribed to our community calendar yet and probably that's why I didn't get a notification for this call, you can do that using this link down here, so you can have access to any of our calls that are ongoing, so you can just subscribe, so you get notified whenever our calls are ongoing and um you can also take on this questionnaires down here.

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Just write your name in any field that you feel works perfectly for you. So if you're good with golang or you want to contribute to golang projects, you can write your name down here at the end of the call I'll send you resources that you can get started with in that particular area, and if you want to also record a tutorial, you can write your name down there or just come to this tutorial to-do list and um fill in your name and we'll do it attend to that.

B

He also mentioned the discuss forum, so we just created that, because slack does not keep all of our information and we're we're discouraged about that so want to use discuss forum. So we don't have to look for the question that you asked five days ago or two weeks ago, or someone wants to ask that particular question. They can always refer back to it.

B

So yeah just ask any questions you want to on the discuss forum and then a lot of questions will come and engage with you on that particular topic and finally down here we have our community handbook. So if this onboarding call or this newcomers call does not do enough justice, you can always go back to the community handbook and look at a detailed guide on getting started within the community and um yeah. Thank you so much science, you did a great job yeah.

B

This is his first time facilitating the meeting anyway, and I want to point that everyone in the community, everyone and anyone at all- is welcome to opt for a facilitating role on any of the newcomers called. The essence is that we want to get you to learn more about the community and a lot of persons learn by teaching others.

B

So that's the essence of the new commerce course, so you can learn by teaching others or you can learn by attending the call, whichever one you choose. But if you want to facilitate any of the call, you can just indicate by dropping a message in slack and I'll fix your name for the next, for the upcoming meetings.

B

Yes, so on that note, if there are any questions, you have a suggestion, you have something you want to say: yeah, you, you have the stage down. We've been doing a lot of talking, so I think you're welcome to drop your own questions.

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Think I have just missed one thing: uh you can also see our figma project over here, like we have the designs for all of the websites down in the same place. You can find it over here and if you want to design something new, what you can do is that don't change this uh current thing, just clone that and you can do whatever changes in this archive thing and you can keep it and then we can view your design one. We can accept that.

A

This one was about the figma fight yeah, I'm done with all the topics. So if you have any questions you can ask.

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And you can also put down your name over here. I think anita will can send.

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Some resources on.

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uh Yeah some of the issues are listed in the chat. If you uh wanna just pick up very good first issue, then you can go through this.

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This is very good first issue yeah, just we have to upgrade the badges and the community forum.

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Yeah, I think there are many like there are many in the label.

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No, no, we actually are done with all uh this is, I think, only finding.

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So yeah, what you gonna do here is like you just go to the issue particular issue and just comment there uh that I want to take this issue. Then I will assign to you ios and thin boss.

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All right we're still waiting for questions and suggestions.

C

Also from uh nsm the readme file, there is this little problem in the wait uh just hold on for a second there's, just this little problem in the community and contributing part of the readme like it's, it's a really minor issue. But if someone wants to go ahead and contribute like the discus part, is unaligned with the with everything else. So you can take a look at that as well.

A

Okay, yeah, and can you tell it once for like.

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Go to the readme file uh just scroll down yeah there just see like the discuss is just not dead.

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Like it's super minor, but if someone wants to work on it.

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C

Already there, why don't you just create one.

B

Okay, I'll drop the link to our project and um any other articles that I find on this particular topic to help you get started after the call.

A

Yeah and I think for reaction.

B

Okay, um you say you need some guidance on how to contribute um can help us with the basic steps on how to create a full request.

B

Okay, just I'll do an an overall step step, just show us how we can make a full request in the.

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So, in order to have this file on your system, you must have it to get a copy and then clone it on your system yeah. So I'm if you'd, okay,.

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Then you can fork it from here. I have already found in my local machine, so you can just get it and then what you need to do is that.

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So after falling, you will find that you have this repository, your username, slash, commissioning, then what you need to do is that you have to get into this code. You have to copy this request.

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And paste it this, this will sorry.

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So I am in my desktop and then you have to just do or wherever you want. You can just clone this repository and this will actually clone it. Then, uh actually, I think this will not grow anymore, because it's already green, you will find that it over here, like it's in my desktop.

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Then you have to you have to go to whatever your preference is like base code or sublime.

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Also so just for the starting.

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You will find that uh there is one pending file, which I have changed right now, so you just have to do git status and you will find that your branch is currently up to date with the origin master. But actually, whenever you are contributing, you must create your own brand. So for creating your own branch, you have to do git, takeout.

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You can follow a particular order, like I change the name docs, so you can just do a box, and this was suppose this is a box, so I can write it in this way. Then you can give a slash. Then you can write your username over here so that we can identify like uh who actually pushed it.

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Then you can just write your issue number suppose. Your issue was 120. Just write this issue like this and then you can just change your brand see a new branch has been created so.

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Then you need to do.

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Now you again need to do git status, so you will see that there is a change now. What can you do? Is that git add and the best practice is that we can use a dot over here. This will add all the files, but there can be some files which are not required.

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So what you can do is to just uh copy this file over here and just add it so that you just added the file and now, if you do a git status, you will see that uh your file has become green over here now. The next step would be like you have to commit this file in your local machine.

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For this you have to write git comment uh minuses. This is a flag actually for the sign up. You have to use this sign up and I have shown you that how to do the sign up you can find it in the readme file. Then you have to type down your message like minus m and then whatever was your message like at a line and then you can hit and enter, but I will not uh enter this because I don't want to make this changes.

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It will be like a bad thing, so you can use this command to just commit your file. Then, after committing your file, you will see that there are all your lines get committed.

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After that you can do git push origin and after that, after this is after the commitment, the gate push origin and the branch name like this one was your branching, you just copy here and paste your branch and you just hit enter over here. You will see that you will get a link for the pull request.

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You then have to go to that link for the full request and from there you can just generate that request.

A

So I think this was some reason.

B

Oh yeah actually.

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I actually didn't comment.

B

I dropped an article in the chat, so if you still need further assistance, it's a very detailed article. You can go, buy it at your own, your contributions, but um once you're making your contributions to any open source project. It's always advice. You go through the contribution guidelines or the contribution.md file, because you don't want to break a rule that already exists within the community or you don't miss a point that um members of the community always emphasize on so always going to the contribution contributing dot.

B

Md file is a really really helpful way to get started and contributing to any open source project. At.

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B

All right, um so, if there's no other question, we are six minutes. We have six minutes left. We can wrap up the call here.

B

All right, um thank you, everyone for attending this meeting. Thank for for those that have attended before. Thank you for coming again, because this was so supportive and also thanks to our facilitator. For this week he did a great job.

B

I learned a lot too, so I think I'll use it next time, I'm fascinating, but if you want to facilitate for the next meeting, you can always indicate interest by dropping a message in the chat and we'll hand it all over to you, but we'll be here to assist always here to assist so yeah. Thank you so much for attending this meeting.

B

This meeting takes place every thursday same time and we discuss anything and everything within the community just to help you get started and also tomorrow is a general meeting and everyone is going to be there. I mean everyone in the community, so you don't want to miss out on that, and you don't want to miss out on introductions too, because everyone wants to get to know you. So thank you so much for making it to this meeting, see you next week and see you around in the community. Bye, bye.

A

The last thing is that this is the place where you will find the gift uh like how to use it. This one has the exactly all the things which I do. Thank you everyone for joining this.

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Thank you. Thank.

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