It’s been about a month since I wrapped up my Outreachy internship, but my journey with Debian is far from over. I planned to keep contributing and exploring the community, and these past few weeks have been busy Testing Locales and Solving Bug #1111214 For the openQA project, we decided to explore how accurate local [ ]
So you want to join Outreachy but you don t understand it, you re scared, or you don t know what open source is about. What is FOSS anyway? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) refers to software that anyone can use, modify, and share freely. Think of it as a community garden; instead of one company owning [ ]
Twelve weeks ago, I stepped into the Debian ecosystem as an Outreachy intern with a curiosity for Quality Assurance. It feels like just yesterday, and time has flown by so fast! Now, I am wrapping up that journey, not just with a completed project, but with improved technical reasoning. I have learned how to use [ ]
Hi there, I’m more than halfway through (8 weeks) my Outreachy internship with Debian, working on the openQA project to test Live Images. My journey into tech began as a software engineering trainee, during which I built a foundation in Bash scripting, C programming, and Python. Later, I worked for a startup as a Product [ ]
Halfway There Hurray! 🎉 I have officially reached the 6-week mark, the halfway point of my Outreachy internship. The time has flown by incredibly fast, yet it feels short because there is still so much exciting work to do. I remember starting this journey feeling overwhelmed, trying to gain momentum. Today, I feel much more [ ]
Thinking about who I am addressing is a challenge, but it is an important one. As I write, I realize I’m speaking to three distinct groups: my friends and family who are new to the world of tech, newcomers eager to join programs like Outreachy, and the technical experts who maintain and sustain the projects [ ]
That’s right: everyone struggles. You could be working on a project only to find a mountain of new things to learn, or your code might keep failing until you start to doubt yourself. I feel like that sometimes, wondering if I’m good enough. But in those moments, I whisper to myself: “You don t know it yet; [ ]
Hello, my name is Isoken, I’m a software engineer and product manager from Nigeria. I am excited and grateful to begin this journey as an Outreachy intern working on the project Debian Images Testing with OpenQA . I am particularly drawn to helping solve problems for people; it keeps bugging me till I can find a [ ]