 All right, so this talk is actually it's lighting talk and it's about finding your next open source contribution with open sauce So I work at github. I'm Beyonce advocate. That is the thing that I have coined in case Beyonce shows up at github They know who to who to call But it's also a real thing because so I work at github Github has 40 million developers and a lot of people ask me what a developer advocate is and I usually say I'm a developer that sends emails Which is actually really true. I was sending emails But also I get to answer this question every day, which is what would they do and Beyonce she also has this thing called the beehive and The beehive is a very large fan group and I feel like our full 40 million users on the github platform are our fans and users So I get to answer questions find out edge cases for features that are missing as well So find me I'll be in this hoodie and we have a table downstairs as well But really what I do and what I explain is I go to bat for the hive So if you do have a question, I did an actions workshop about automating your workflows on github twice Just an hour ago as well as yesterday So find that content. I've tweeted it out too as well So feel free to do that self-paced But a lot of people asked what a developer advocate which I already answered so skip that but it's really about side projects I tend to always build like example apps all the time Which means I use on all these different types of languages The question I can't really answer is like what's your favorite language? And I I can't answer it because all languages can be hosted on github So I have to sort of try a lot of those things which means I have a lot of side projects And I mentioned this because my journey to open source is very similar when I was learning kind of code about seven years ago I did this thing that was a bootcamp, but it wasn't called a bootcamp then it was like more this online platform Where someone taught me how to do Ruby on Rails and from that I got this like exciting thing to do Which is like this new server type JavaScript technology, which was node and I built this project in node But I had no idea what I was doing or how to write JavaScript I just knew like the basics and I built this project I found this project that saw most of my problems that was written in node at the time was like zero dot eleven It was like the time where if you were you fall along at the time. This is when we had the The IO the second version of node also shipped at the same time. It was chaos So it was also confusing but the cool thing about this is the person who maintained the project I found taught me how to do node through interactions through PRs and issues and sort of this like Mentored me into being coming a node developer Which is super awesome and I find that github is awesome because it's a place you can also make friends like that through open source But the hard part is like trying to figure out how to get started open source There's a lot of tools out there, but I found like they were all Challenging because I didn't know where to get started because I'm flipping around different languages I did iOS development for a little bit because I thought that was cool and I had to learn that from the bottom up So I had to learn from other peers and mentors and find that always starting over because I'm always trying to do things But every time I find the project I just I mentioned this I already know I don't know where to start and this is quote I'm Gucci main anybody know Gucci main He's a rapper. All right, and yeah, so he invented trap music. So the Mac the music That's like, huh? Like you could thank him for that They also call it mumble rap to as well But there's this quote that he took they took from an interview Which is if you don't got sauce to any loss and it's talking about skill and like being a rapper and like how do you find that skill? And I find with open source It's also the same like if you don't know where you to start or you just didn't like you weren't just born into some sort of Situation that you just had open source like throwing at you and you just don't know and as we're entering more people into the industry And showing people I think this it's powerful to show people open source as a way to get free mentorship and support for learning new languages So I created this product product this open source project basically it's not a product Define your next open source contribution. It's still work in progress as of today It actually is broken because I'm the only user So I just have an issue that came up over the weekend that basically if you aren't me, it's it's not working I solved the issue in the comments I haven't added the good first issue label because I was literally just doing it right there But I'll do that, but it looks like this. It's an open sauce It's like when you start a band you spend way more time on the logo than the actual content So it's the same thing. I have a cool logo, but it's a very simple app and you just log in with github and It's built on the GraphQL API. So if you haven't touched GraphQL, this is a good opportunity for you to get your feet Well with it. I'm more than happy to mentor you I could do zoom calls and show you how this works But also this is similar the projects that are on this platform are also similar There are people who also meant to you for those projects as well So though this is open source built and react to GraphQL There are also open source projects that I could also introduce you into and I'm gonna build There's a feature the whole feature list that I'm gonna be hopefully working out through the in the year around onboarding open source So I'm hoping to get to that Also wanted to mention the tool one graph But one graph is a way to interface with GraphQL. Just note that it exists. I'm happy to talk more about that It's a another project. It's also open source and I'm happy and also The repo is here. It's B. Dougie slash open sauce Please find me at the conference and the issues Good first issues with a lot of things I want to cover but I can't talk about now. So don't get lost a saucy