 Hi Oleg, how are you? Good, how are you? I am fine too, yeah. So yeah, I hope so. I shared the video with you all. So like, yeah. You could find the link to the video in the chat right here. And then if you would like to follow along with the slides, we also have that. Yeah, it can also be possible. Yeah, let me share the screen with you all. It will be better, I think so. Just let me know if my screen is visible or not. Just let me know. You have to share the tab. Yeah, I shared it, I think so. Okay. Great. Cool. So yeah, thanks folks for joining in today's talk. And in today's topic, we have opportunity and leveraging through communities. And I will talk about everything regarding everything you can say. So chill out on that. And let's get started. So first of all, who I am. So my name is Karthike Rawat. I'm a founder of my own open source. And you can say as well as an inclusive community called Devs2Com. And I'm also a GSOC student this year under TensorFlow working under TensorFlow.js project. I'm also recently a community intern at Turing to evangelize more on the community stuff and to get better for you. So yeah, I'm also an organizer at TFU Chandigarh which is a developer community, K.O.G. like I may be in a part of about 50 plus community as an organizer. So I'm pretty much a community person you can say. In ambassadoring point, I'm also a beta Microsoft Lunge Stream ambassador and Ingelex ambassador. And I'm also a post on stream leader. So like I'm pretty much active in community you can say on that end. So we will talk about more on it everything. So yeah. So actually what is community? Everyone is keeping in mind even this talk is also for those who are non-techy. So I will deep dive into everything specifically. So actually what is community? Right. So community just come with a common plus unity. If we got a unity over some common like-minded people like if suppose I'm just taking an example if you are like a football player. So obviously you go it's not like that. You go to the like a cricket kind of a fan. You go to obviously to the football community. So those people who have a common goal or common agenda or they have a same mind specifically they have same like-mindedness like you. That's we call community. So that's the main you can say a general definition of community you can say. So why to join community? Like why we need to join community? What just happened if we joined the community? So if possible just share your thing like after seeing this what you can do that over that. Okay. So actually this is specifically for if you didn't know what it is. So it's actually right networking. So when we're talking about communities networking is like a why we need to network folks like how we get benefit from networking. Yeah. That's a simple question that is that in our mind. So networking helps a lot in different different aspects. It's one thing you can network with people. You can say they have a great experience and you in community or like they are good in tech specifically or industry you can specifically. So networking with networking with them you will have like an edge on every different different aspect can be experienced. They can mentor you on that. And like if you're going for like I think the coupon is coming. So all like you're seeing this that Defcon. That's also also a place to network. I think so there is another tab you see networking kind of thing. So that's a part of it. When we're talking about tech conferences and like many sessions in community networking is a you can say key role to play. Why it is really really important because when we're talking about community community is nothing like specifically focused on like to gain something from but just network with that have a connection with them. It can be possible you can collaborate in some project or product in can be in can be a in particular start our in any hackathon. It can be more on focusing on the you can not related to only like students networking with the higher people. It can be also possible there. I'm a developer but I am you can say I'm not good with public speaking. So I can network with the public speaker specifically those are good in speaking it can be possible. I'm very good at technology but I'm not able to share as well. So for for that particular aspect I network with those people who are like good with public speaking. I can share my technological. I can say knowledge over that like they didn't know about some of some what you can say about technology. So I can share about that. So that's the power of networking. You can say like there is many more to come in networking but yeah. So how to get like specifically I'm talking about tech conferences. So this is that great that conference they've gone. You can say cute corn and like many many many many join you can say come over that so you can join that conference in that specifically. Yep. And what what what else we can do. Yeah. So we have even session. So if you've been a part of any community. So obviously if that community is somewhat active and inclusive obviously they are guaranteed events in session will be there. Guaranteed. Totally guaranteed. There will be events in session over there. Okay. It can be possible. The topic that particular event or session is based on your you're not familiar with. Okay. Cool. It's it's okay to didn't didn't get that particular topic. But the main thing is network with those people who just joined that event. It can be your same knowledge like they didn't know anything about that particular topic. Let's take an example. I'm just taking an example. There is a session going on or maybe go lang suppose I'm taking an example or maybe Kubernetes. You didn't you didn't know about any Kubernetes. You didn't even heard of what is Kubernetes. I'm taking an example. So like even it's not like that. It's only you who didn't understand there are many people who came for session to understand that stuff. Like if they know why they came to the session that's the whole point of concern. Or it can be possible. There are some people who know a little bit about Kubernetes kind of thing or that particular topic. So it will be helpful for you also network with those four. It can be possible. You can collaborate in some maybe in hackathon. It can be maybe you can start your startup with that that co founder. Also you got to go founder with there. So that's the power of networking folks. Yeah. Now. Platform and community where you can find actually when we sing networking. So yeah, we know we go for community. What are the platform where you can say what are the programs that we can a part of it so that we can network with folks and up skill are basically up skill specifically. Yeah. So that's the point. So what are we having and how these platform focusing on opportunities and leverage yourself leveraging. It can be skills. It can be hard skills. It can be soft skill. But truly what I believe there is no hard skill soft skill. It just kills. You have to just take it as a like you can say interest and build it. Build up with. Okay. So what are the platform. So one of the most one of the most famous program out there is meetup.com. You can connect with awesome folks out there. You can be a part of many, many programs. If we're talking about students like right now I am a final year students. I'm talking more on it. So yes. Microsoft Lunchtime Ambassador is great program. You can be in a part of community. Also if you if you're not a student, it's okay. You can you can also be in a program manager. Like you can also help the student. If you are really interested to help the students. Then you can become a program manager. You can also get like an internship over there if you want to like just to just to stimulate everything just to manage the like students are getting proper content or not. They're getting a proper sessions or not because in these programs they are the main motive of this program are to upskill the students or upskill the professionals. You can be an awesome angel come back and angel like ambassador. You can be a part of angel community. Angel like mostly focuses on hackathon or maybe entrepreneurship or like a many kind of focus on the event. So you can be also program manager over there. DSC. I'm talking more particularly on like students right now but like GDS is also a great part to enhance our skill because you get resources from Google on how to how to like it can be possible. You heard of about cloud Google cloud but you didn't know how to use it or how to use that service or you know about Firebase but you didn't know about how to use it. So you can that community can play a bigger role to you. Developers circles from Google Facebook. It's a professional you can say professional club you can say. If you if you are lead at Facebook you can got a great great aspect of resources from Facebook. You can demon said you can be program lead. You can also be in a lead of that particular chapter that you are leading so that it can also enhance your soft skill also how to take a leadership how to manage the stuff and like that get up campus expert one of the most prestigious program out there for specifically for you can say when when we talking about student community so campus expert provides so much awesome things for you recently get crack and ambassador program is also started for same thing do if you are really really active in girl like if you are using get crack and and if you if you want to evangelize in terms of in terms of community you can you want to help the students. So that's the program hack club is also great thing if you're thinking you can you can there is no hack club in your region and you want to bring out there you can same with GDG GDG is also another awesome program mostly for the professionals these are the these are the it's not a program you are leading a you can say particular region but also GDG provides so many resources you can be a part of it it can be possible you can start your own startup because GDG provides so much research can be cloud current many more up to it okay so it's not like that only and these are some you can see some major platform programs you can look it to it okay now why to join open source community like first of all when we're talking about open source like we know why to join community but what is open source actually so open source is nothing else when we just I'm just splitting the word open plus source it means a source code of a project or product which is open as simple as it like you can if you if you're thinking in that particular project or product if you have any issues or bugs kind of thing so if you if you think you can resolve that bugs and bugs are specifically that that's part of player contribution so that we call open source when we stated our term when Linus Tower says like in open source you have an ability to change the change the skin you can say so that's what the power of open source like when we try when we specifically focus on prior you can say proprietary software so they are paid and they can't be like open source but when we talk about open source open source play a really really major bigger impact over it in a lot of a lot of people it can be possible like when you're talking about open source open source helps you to get over that skills in a in a in a different different manner it can not only focusing on the same thing but it can focus on maybe you can start writing you can start testing testing specifically source or you can start writing testing so start writing documentation update on documentation it can be also possible you can add some features over it you can be in a part of that community and try to focus more on it so yeah that's the main you can say basically open source nothing else it just a source code which is open to you can add it over it okay so yeah if in the chat if those who are listening if they know what is symbol what is symbol it because like many people didn't know about it but I more focus we talk about more on this only so those who didn't know about what this symbols mean actually this means simple like this that is diversity and inclusion now why diversity and inclusion like in the community what's the like what's the use of diversity inclusion it doesn't matter like kind of thing so that there are many people are saying kind of thing so why it is important like diversity and inclusion like what is it you like we heard of a like in a larger where we saw it like diversity inclusion is really really important but now I'm talking about why it is important why it is needed okay so let's see this so why it is important so now the main scene is I am taking an example let's take an example take one group which have inclusive group when we talking about inclusive let's take an example I have five people in both team in only one kind of people suppose it takes male suppose I am taking an example only one kind of people group have only contain like male gender suppose and an inclusive group suppose I am taking one male one female true transgender or maybe other from LBQT community taking example and now suppose these two teams are in the startup or any company I am just taking an example okay and they given a problem to solve it so when we now the concept came into a very very crucial play folks just listen to it carefully in psychology if we talk about gender the focus of when we when we say like just give me the solution of that particular so the solution of that particular like suppose I am taking an example of male so they will find a one only this kind of category of solution they didn't go to the you can say female or transgender side because the psychology stated that if we talking about specifically psychology of different gender they have another you can say special kind of repeat it's not like that male didn't give a proper answer but now it is just an example taken example if you're talking about Google so when they say DSA is really really important because they made the project they need to improve their performance now the scene is that when we saying like why why there is a teammate is going on why we are talking about more on it so they are talking about more on it so that is a concept like when we say diversity and inclusion that's totally focuses on how a person can give an idea okay now the ideology is focusing on the gender which is the psychology that what I explained now this is the power of it like if the group is not inclusive then there is only one kind of category of solution will you get okay but when we talking about inclusive group we get different different varieties of colors of solution it can be possible maybe a transgender can or maybe a transgender can give a better solution as compared to male or female or maybe albiquity community or it can be possible albiquity albiquity kind of member can give us some better better solution as compared to transgender or like any other community like male and female that's the power of diversity inclusion now my main thing we came here into diversity but what the inclusion it's not like that bringing all over the table and just only male or only female is talking when you're talking about inclusion everyone has a right to say something because I see in a couple of years in 10 to 20 years we see like this kind of when we say it's like a hard truth but male depressed the women and other genders and we are like a dominance in that so that makes other folks I see in my community also even though I am proud to say that in my community maximum core members are from are from female genders specifically but the point is they are still like a very in a downward moment they can't say anything because they're afraid of it because if they say something maybe they feel like it's kind of a wrong thing so we need to change that diversity inclusion diversity is good we are bringing diversity but inclusion is inclusion is like that on on the table when everyone is here everyone has a right to do or like as a leader you have an responsibility to make them feel so secure or like it's so easy so that they can share their idea if they didn't share the idea how to issue a solution it can be possible and we're talking about that example so that's the power of power when we're saying that's the power of diversity and inclusion so also there's one more prioritized thing like there should not be any discrimination that's the diversity inclusion but let's see the psychology concept is so much cool right like when we're talking about diversity inclusion it can also possibly we get a proper better idea so why go on everyone but when we're talking about also scalability and when we're talking about solution from the start of our company that's also great a great point of view I think so so this is the one point I think so I just made it over now the open source community yeah so now the open source community that we can talk over it and like like I feel very privileged to share that like my community that is developer student community is one of that community but like everyone knows this community adiHub community is one of the best community I've ever met like I met adiHub recently you can say in past year during major league hacking local hack they learn we collaborate with each other that's a power open source community our agenda is not just to create the lump sum of people we are here for we are just focusing on first community first collaboration then code we are focusing on to help you other folks it's not like when we when we talking about open source community how you can leverage those things networking these are the community because these are the here are the people who are here to help you others that's a focus of this community and I feel privileged to say that like adiHub is one like when we talking about adiHub or when we talking about adi I personally met him and that one of the humble guy I ever met totally I'm saying this folks so focus on that also like why why do we so why do we humble when we talking about community leader if you are a community leader you have to be that kind of thing you have to be not restless just take to understand the whole point of you of every person or every member of your community and there are many more classroom community is doing so much awesome by Kunal Kushwa Kunal Kushwa is one of the prominent open source you can say influencer in India who is just trying to promoting open source in a large basically focusing on the CNC he's trying to promote more on that end yeah adiHub or developers in community equicode classroom community and many more there are many more like I can't like also desk also doing good there are many communities out there who are helping you I just want you just want to connect with them it can be on the meet up group it can be on discord it can be on their website so try to join over that folks yeah now how to leverage your skill for this yeah first of all when talking about open source community or any community there should be and github organization join that yeah join that it can also if you're facing an issue try to drop them in their discord a slack server that also cool like try to join when talking about open source community they are very inclusive they are really welcoming in nature so try to tag you can say moderator in discord like I am new here but if you if you didn't get a proper welcome you can say you can start with in the introduction channel it can mean the slack it can mean the discord channel so yeah that should be a because everyone get there a kind of person of your like in this text like you are working in which area you are interested with what are your hobbies just kind of a random kind of thing after joining obviously when we talking about why start contributing is not only focus only try to contribute in open source project if you are helping a new fork only that is also contribution that is also a big community contribution if you are helping a new fork for joining like you suppose you have been a month in that particular community you know how to get started with everything so you can help other folks who are joining new it can possible don't be anyone try to be public do learn public that what the focus of open source try to do my own agenda is like that try to be try to with them so that or try to be try to do everything in public it will also enhance a networking and also enhance a public profile it can be possible you can make you can say public influencer in open source community it can be possible in communities too so that's that's a power that's a power community and we are talking about open source community so start contributing it can it can start contributing and obviously when we talking about open source so read documentation in a very good manner so that you can get started with it so that's the like basic power of open source when we talking about yep that's a good one ask your doubt if you are working on issue bugs or features like it can be possible you can go you read the whole documentation and when you start working on any issue or any bug and you think that it can be one of the feature that should be added in that project and create an issue and you can work on that on your feature so if you have any doubt regarding anything you can ask your doubt in the github discussion github is also got a new feature called github discussion you can create a team it's not like that you have to create every time a team but there should be a github discussion feature so you can ask over it like I have this and if no one is like answering or you are not getting a proper answer maybe there so you can do that you can go to the tag the moderator and ask like I am working on this issue and facing them this kind of issue even though it's like a very lame question do ask that's why when we see community leaders and community moderator are here to help you out so it will make everything a process a very smooth process so that's the you can say beauty of open source open source community join their monthly call community call to network with people when we talking about github and our community we are more focusing on monthly community call is there but cross community call that's the power that's what we say when we talking about open source community when we say open source community it more precisely work on how and how collaboratively work so cross community call like my community is from India ad hub is from maybe like when we say UK so we are collaborating with each other and it's not like when we say a monthly community call so you only meet only that particular community member it can be possible it is helping other folks also to learn new thing to meet new folks it can be also possibility suppose in my community there is no maybe a maybe a hiring manager or any any medical like kind of opportunity stuff but it can when we doing cross community and if you are if you are got that skill and it can possible in other community maybe some hiring manager is there as a community member and he he or she can see a CEO work on that while doing a contribution in some particular community so that enhance your opportunity also you are you are leveraging a public profile and also upskilling that so that's the power that's the power of open source community and when we talking about how you can get leverage to community yeah so there is one more important part of it be active and share your work as I am saying do everything in public learn in public many times Eddie Jod that who again I am saying who is a get up start of the Kunal Kishwaha who is an open source ambassador you can say so he is doing they are doing more focus and try to do everything in public when we talking about LinkedIn is for specifically professional you also been a LinkedIn but I will try to prefer you say to be on try to be active on Twitter because Twitter is a you can say developers LinkedIn yeah you are working on some particular open source project or just to understand that documentation if you do nothing in coding no worry just like tweet about it or you can say tag me or like any community folk out there like I just I just read this whole documentation of this project and maybe I will start contributing in the next day so that is the power that you can because seeing that the other specifically the people who got into it they got an intuition about it yeah this person this person doing in this particular it can be possible how anyone guess like you are working in that particular project obviously you have to publicize it you have to marketize it you are your own product you have to sell it so that is why when we came into social media yeah social media have different aspect but take it as a positive end you will totally enhance the public profile also and your career also I am totally guaranteed over that try to be active on Twitter LinkedIn tag over it and yeah that is the total that you are sharing insights about this session so many people what they do they just do the certification and just paste it in the LinkedIn or Twitter like I am doing this certification it is not like that if you are posting certificate also try to make some pointers over it like what are the insight that I got from that particular certificate it can be possible like suppose I am doing an Azure fundamental post it like that so there is no no one will see it if you make a thread over it can be possible you can make a thread in Twitter or it can be thread over LinkedIn to tell each and everything like this this are the topic that what I understood and this are how my test will go so you can share on that basis so everyone can get started with also also blogs and podcasts and video video content is also great if you are doing content creation that is also another level of contributing community to the community so you can do that try to make it every free so that those people who didn't get an access over it so they can do that stuff so that's the it's not like that you are helping though those people or those folks you are helping you because your soft skill are improving your speaking skill are improving your networks are improving it can also possible someone someone DM you like thanks folks for the thanks folks for that content I hired in that particular I hired in that particular start over to do that video so that's that's the power of contribution and it's not like it will not help you you can post this as an publicize it like I help this person kind of thing it's not everyone is saying it's kind of flexing or bragging it's not bragging it's this fact you are you have just done that work so you can show it in public that's the same concept that every every community are trying to focus on so try to be humble be inclusive and try to adding some meme kind of thing maybe telling about this language created 5 years ago but we could explain why then 10-year experience language for their job so that's the basically a Kubernetes kind of a meme if you see Kubernetes so like Kubernetes is about maybe 5 to 10 years but that person want experience for 10 to 20 years so that's a totally lame and say with them when we talking about developers then second meme is like that we are just taking a resource from and we are just taking it on a hackathon so that's the that's the kind of a meme you can over it and yeah if you want you can connect me over here you can say all common name is Kerry cool dude you can take a screenshot out of it if you want to tag me in this session if you take any screenshot do tag me share your learnings and yeah that's the end of the stream you can say questions you can direct them in the Q&A we'll also have a breakout room where you can go and talk with Cardi K after this yeah I wish I really wish that I could join but I have to man this post I guess what are the questions that I wanted to ask is what is your policy on posting on LinkedIn yeah policy like for me it's not like maybe starting I will say on that LinkedIn is good but like it can also for many folks are kind of formal kind of thing because people are sharing obviously they are sharing their achievements over there so many people got for more kind of thing for me it's okay to be on LinkedIn but I will say try to be on Twitter because many people think like Twitter is very very kind of a hate try to promote you in terms of like opportunities and leveraging you through communities so Twitter is on another you can say base of community Twitter is a community I will say because if you follow particular people your feed will come over that also so yeah that's what my point of view on that now I wanted to ask a question that I think probably a lot of people face like what's like the biggest like what can you do to get over your fear of the initial like wanting to reach out yep so yeah there's some misconception like many people what they do if they want a referral from a company or for a particular company employee so he directly make a connection directly DM that particular person like I want I am doing this kind of thing so don't do that just take a time take a month to have a talk with that particular person so you can get a connection and they know about everything about you so that that's the same concept if you're sharing your work public because many people are not doing because they are like a very kind of a maybe loose kind of thing maybe they're afraid of like sharing all the learnings out in public maybe maybe kind of a competitor kind of thing because in community there's no competition there is only collaboration you collaborate with each other work on a project maybe a collaborate in hackathon so that's the power of it so try to be more like take an easy try to connect with folks take a month or two month so that they can they can see you're doing your internships kind of thing and what I've done in open so have you contributed in like a big project like I'm contributing TensorFlow so have you contributed in kind of thing so recruiter will come to you only you will not go to the recruiter kind of thing recruiter come to you that's what same thing happened with me I've just I've you can say contributing in about past two years I didn't do an internship after GSO I I get a company at you can say in contributing to community everything come come in your place that's what I will say if there was one thing that people can come away from this talk knowing what would it be can you repeat it or like sorry if there's one single thing that you could have people come away from this talk knowing what would that be okay so I will say don't do I'm this thing I'm repeating same thing but I'm saying do not do competition like be a healthy politician but try to be collaborative be humble be collaborative with any kind of like it can be possible like you didn't get a proper kind of friend circle maybe you want to collaborate but you didn't get a proper circle so today is your area or you can say discord you do join great best communities out there like it can be mine community Eddie George who is the star of the year who are trying to more focus on inclusiveness we are working a lot over the inclusiveness only so do join their community and from India like or like from another country but we have a like-mindedness in particular topic so we can collaborate with each other and we can learn each other it can be also possible Oleg and me maybe we can collaborate on kind of startup we can start our own startup it can be possible on that then so it's not like that you have to be collaborative with some folks who are just nearby it can be it can be possible and I am not going to the hatred end but it can be possible some folks around you very very competitive so they are very they achieve something or like in a smaller amount so they get hate or they spread hate specifically so that's okay you will get hate but the communities are here do join communities they will help you out in every aspect and it can be also possible do DM me if you want if I get time I can collaborate on any hackathon and we can do some stuff on that project