Herding Cats – Getting Involved in The Wide World of Tech with Kiran Oliver

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YAML

Kiran: Yeah. And I also think it's important to call out that code doesn't necessarily mean non-technical. And I want to strike the word non-technical from everyone's vocabulary. And I also think that things like documentation are super important and things like using the tools that make things easier, GitHub Actions, writing YAML. All these things are valid, and they're important. And writing Markdown is still coding. Computer…docs is still coding.

#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions

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Twitter Ads

Kiran: Yeah, I saw a lot of new people, though. That was wonderful. That was even better. I was meeting new people that I didn't know before, or I had just known them through Twitter. And it was like, oh wow, now I can finally meet you in person. And it was great.

#Marketing #Ad Networks #Marketing Platform 1 social mentions

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Stack Overflow

And suddenly, you're failing every single day when you're learning to code. And the fact that people normalize that, and they're constantly confused, and they're Googling things. And I have a mentee right now that she asked me yesterday, like, "Is it okay that I'm Googling so much?" It's like, "Absolutely. That's a skill in itself. You're learning the art of Stack Overflow.".

#Knowledge Sharing #Communication #Questions And Answers 876 social mentions

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Orbit.love

Kiran: I'm really digging into things like cauldron.io, which is a project undertaken by Bitergia and The CHAOSS Foundation. So I'm really digging deep into community metrics working with Orbit as well. We're hoping to work together on some GitHub Actions. A lot of the stuff I'm also working on is just GitHub Actions CI/CD, a lot of stuff around DevSecOps and security-based open-source community functions, et cetera.

#Community Platform #Community Management #Messaging 19 social mentions

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Kubernetes

Kiran: And Paris Pittman reached out to me and said, "You should join The Contributor Experience SIG." And Paris is one of those people that I thanked extensively. And I said, "Thank you for everything. Thank you so much." Because getting me involved in Kubernetes has introduced me to so many wonderful people. And without people like Paris and everyone that I know in the Kubernetes community, I absolutely would not be the person I am today. There's no way.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions

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GitHub Actions

It doesn't have to be C++. It doesn't have to be Python. It doesn't have to be JavaScript and especially if you have dyscalculia like I do. I can only get so far in JavaScript before there's no more JavaScript I can learn because I'm not great at algebra. And recognizing that is okay. But I'm not going to sit here and willingly make myself feel bad because I don't know algebra. I can contribute in other ways. I can write docs; I can use GitHub Actions; I, I can use no-code or low-code tools.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 274 social mentions

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GitHub

Kiran: That's what I'm handling. And I also work on...my big project at Cumunda is the Camunda Community Hub, which is a GitHub organization where all of our community-built extensions live so that way people know that these are community projects. They can contribute to them. But they're not necessarily officially supported by Cumunda. But you can still come there and collaborate and extend out your Cumunda software using these extensions and perhaps improve your experience or the experience of your customers by using these tools.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2037 social mentions

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GitHub Copilot

And now there are things like GitHub Copilot, which GitHub Copilot is a whole thing in and of itself, which you got to weigh your pros and cons with some of these tools. But a lot of them out there are really there to make your life easier.

#Developer Tools #Coding #Code Autocomplete 211 social mentions

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Camunda

Kiran: That's what I'm handling. And I also work on...my big project at Cumunda is the Camunda Community Hub, which is a GitHub organization where all of our community-built extensions live so that way people know that these are community projects. They can contribute to them. But they're not necessarily officially supported by Cumunda. But you can still come there and collaborate and extend out your Cumunda software using these extensions and perhaps improve your experience or the experience of your customers by using these tools.

#Automation #BPM #Workflow Automation 15 social mentions