DEV Community: Eddie Jaoude

Community GitHub Action that welcomes and logs stats from the community

Eddie Jaoude — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:41:28 +0000

My Workflow

gh-action-community is being used on all our community repositories to welcome and log statistics from the community so that we can give out digital badges. It is being used on our support repo as well as other repos in our community GitHub organisation https://github.com/EddieJaoudeCommunity

Everything is configurable from the reply messages to Issues and Pull Requests, to which events to log for gamification.

Submission Category:

I think this belongs in the Maintainer Must-Haves category, to be inclusive and gamify community contributions.

Yaml File or Link to Code

EddieHubCommunity / gh-action-community

GitHub Action for the Community, from welcoming first timers to badges

GitHub Action Community

GitHub Action for the Community - from welcoming first timers to logging your activity for badges!

GitHub Action Features 💡

These GitHub Actions will:

reply to all new Issues and Pull Requests
log statistics of user activity to Firestore DB (Firebase)

Quickstart

You can use 1 or all of these GitHub Actions.

To create a GitHub Action

In the folder .github/workflows/
Create a file welcome.yaml (or another name you prefer)
Add the Action config

Welcoming message

This GitHub Action will reply to all new Issues and Pull Requests with a custom message

Example usage (you can change the replies for issue-message and pr-message)

  welcome
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@main
      - uses: EddieHubCommunity/gh-action-community/src/welcome@main
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          issue-message: '<h1>It''s great having you contribute to this project</h1> Feel free to raise an <strong>Issue</strong>! Welcome to

…

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Additional Resources / Info

EddieHubCommunity / support

Community Help & Support and AEA (Ask Everyone Anything)

Community Support

Join the Discord Community — Subscribe to Eddie Jaoude's YouTube channel

Guides

Raise an issue to join the EddieHub GitHub organisation.
Actions go under issues
- Bugs
- Add me to the organization
Miscellaneous go under Discussions
- Questions
- Ideas (once discussed, an Issue could be created and linked to the Discussion thread)
- Showcase of Open Source Portfolios to get feedback from community members.
- Feel free to check out other cool repositories of EddieHub here

FAQs

What is a GitHub Organization? Essentially it's a way to group many repositories in an entity called an organization. An organization also allows us to group people who contribute and are a part of the community. Some examples would be - Netflix, Facebook, and of course EddieHub Learn more on GitHub docs.
How do I join the Github Organization? Raise an issue on this repository asking to join (invite…

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GitHub Actions Hackathon: json to html table

Eddie Jaoude — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:08:09 +0000

My Workflow

This GitHub Action creates a html table in your README.md from a json file.

gh-actions-html-table-generator is being used on awesome-github-profiles where from a json file, it generates a customisable and configurable html table.

Submission Category:

This is a Maintainer Must-Haves utility. Not having to worry about changing the number of columns or cell layout. With a simple GitHub Action configuration, the Action will regenerate the html table for any json data structure

Yaml File or Link to Code

GitHub Action...

EddieHubCommunity / gh-actions-html-table-generator

Read from a json file and write to the README

Table generator

This GitHub Action creates a html table in your README.md from a json file.

Inputs

`github-token` [REQUIRED]

This is available in your GitHub Action

with:
    github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

`html-cell` [REQUIRED]

This is the html table cell content with object-field-names

with:
    html-cell: '<td>{{ firstname }} {{ lastname }}</td>'

`object-field-names` [REQUIRED]

This is json, and contains a list of the names of the fields in your json file data object

with:
    object-field-names: '[ "firstname", "lastname" ]'

`columns` [OPTIONAL]

defaults to 2

with:
    columns: 3

`json-file-path` [OPTIONAL]

defaults to data.json

with:
    json-file-path: 'your-filename.json'

`file-to-use` [OPTIONAL]

Defaults to README.md

with:
    file-to-use: 'README.md'

`section-name` [OPTIONAL]

This allows you to change the data-section name in the comments to something else. This also allows multiple runs on the same file, for different sections.

defaults…

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Additional Resources / Info

Used on this repo...

EddieHubCommunity / awesome-github-profiles

List of GitHub profiles that have awesome customisation, that you can use for inspiration

Note: This repository is not included in the Hacktoberfest event, as it is for practice only!

Awesome GitHub profiles

List of GitHub profiles that have awesome customization, that you can use for inspiration.
Feel free to submit a pull request with your suggestions for awesome GitHub profiles.

How can I add my GitHub profile? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Create an issue, with the title as your name, and in the description put a screenshot of the customised GitHub profile page (copy the generated image URL, this will be needed in the next step). The URL will look something like this https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/awesome-github-profiles/assets/51878265/ee31b832-d549-4df9-8ffe-24419f9d0e46
Fork the project, using the top right corner button, that states fork
Create a file named your-username.json in the directory profiles with the following content.

Your entry should be similar to this example:

{
  "image": "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/624760/91057573-48531300-e61f-11ea-9e13-2d7384e42000.png"
  "issueId": 66,
  "name": "Eddie Jaoude",

…

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GitHub Actions video, from what is GitHub Actions all the way to customising your own with Javascript

Community Spotlight on: Jose David Pereira

Eddie Jaoude — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:02:59 +0000

Welcome to Community Spotlight, where I shine the spotlight on a member of the community that I find inspiring as a result of their journey, contributions or outlook to tech.

In this edition we have Jose David Pereira, or "Bolt" as he is known in the tech community. He is a Software Consultant in Lisbon, Portugal.

I first met Jose David through my YouTube channel as he became a subscriber. From there things moved on organically with Jose David contributing to my Discord Bot called "EddieBot", which responds to commands and which you can check out on Github. I find that Jose David is a great asset to the community as he contributes with code but also with support and encouragement to others.

Jose David first got into tech in his last year of high school as he wanted to learn programming to build computer games. Jose David decided to teach himself Java - I really identify with this given that I began my programming journey by teaching myself PHP. Following high school, Jose David went on to choose a degree in Computer Science. It always interests me when someone pursues a Computer Science degree as I did not. I do sometimes wonder whether I would have reached my programming skill level sooner if I had done such a degree, although it is undeniable that my engineering background did form a solid base for my programming practice.

By his own admission, Jose David found it hard at the start to understand object oriented programming as well as best practices, and as a result and in his own words: “my code sucked”! Having seen Jose David’s code, I cannot see how this could ever have "sucked" but it is great to see when someone understands the correlation between good code and best practices. To me, best practices (such as automation and small pull requests) are vital in order to promote maintainability, readability and longevity of code. By his second year at university however, Jose David “started falling in love with the craft” and focused on the pursuit of learning more and more. What started with wanting to learn how to programme so that he could play his own computer games, software is now his passion.

For Jose David Open Source is all about collaboration with other Devs - this could be working together for creating something of value or just for mere fun. Currently Jose David and I are collaborating on our community projects which I would say ticks both of these boxes!

The type of collaboration that Open Source generates allows you - in Jose David's opinion - to broaden your horizons as you get to experience feedback from a wide range of people and you become exposed to their opinions and perspectives. For Jose David, the skill of knowing how to give feedback, but also how to embrace and act on feedback you receive is incredibly important. I could not agree more. I have had contracts where I have been the only developer and others where I have worked in a project team of over 40 developers - which provides for very different experiences. No matter where you are on that spectrum, interacting with the Open Source community will give you invaluable exposure to different ways of approaching and solving a problem, as well as learning how to work collaboratively.

I got to know Lisbon in a tech context four years ago when I attended my first WebSummit and it is undeniable that the city is becoming a real tech hub. Government funding and company friendly regulations, incubators and boot camps popping up, as well as big names such as Mercedes and Google setting up technology hubs, makes this a very attractive proposition for home grown talent such as Jose David, as well as digital nomads. Let’s also not forget the quality of life element - from the fantastic weather to eco-friendly living and affordability.

Jose David, our community really appreciates your coding and supportive contributions - keep going!

Follow Jose David on Twitter and

David PereiraFollow

I love learning, programming and discover new solutions. Also kotlin rules

Failure is an option event by FemTechTalks

Eddie Jaoude — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 06:18:08 +0000

Failure is an option event by FemTechTalks

Yes, we believe failure can indeed be an option… to enable our learning and success!

For every public success you see, there has likely (most definitely!) been a thousand failures behind it. From startup founders “killing it” to bestseller authors to those landing their dream job. Thanks to more and more publicly successful figures speaking out about ‘failure’ being their actual building blocks to ‘success’, from Benjamin Franklin and J.K Rowling to Ariana Huffington and Steve Jobs, we are gradually treating it as an acceptable option.

Or… not so much?

Whilst publicly shared failure stories are becoming increasingly romanticised, the stigma can still persist — most significantly — within ourselves.

Come join us as we spend an evening exploring how we can better embrace our failures to achieve our goals.

We are thrilled to be joined by a brilliant panel of speakers:

Bethan Davies — Co-Founder, The Bravest Path Bethan has over 10 years’ experience in finance and hi-tech sectors, at Autodesk, Prudential and Munich Re in regional and global leadership positions. She has now co-founded the Bravest Path, bringing a different approach to developing individuals and organisational cultures to deliver sustainable behavioural and cultural change. Bethan focuses on helping women be bolder, self-compassionate and authentic, making workplaces more human and humane.

Anna Lampart — Life Coach From her own array of life experiences, Anna has been inspired to help others overcome their personal and work challenges as a Transformational Life Coach, taking a holistic view of mind, body and soul.

Heather Parker — Product Owner, The App Business Through a few twists, turns and about-faces, Hannah has made her way from a Chemistry degree to a school lab technician, a PhD student and a stint of management consulting to land her current role as a Product Owner at TAB.

Chair: Laura Alderson — Co-Founder, FemTechTalks; Executive Assistant to CEO, Ordnance Survey Laura is an innovation professional who has worked in the tech and utilities sectors for over five years. With experience running startup accelerator programmes and developing and delivering innovation strategy, she is currently working with Cabinet Office on a project to open the UK’s best geospatial datasets.

Dont forget the bloopers at the end ;)

Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos on #opensource #github #remote #startup & #inclusion. Eddie is founder of the open source project DashboardHub. http://youtube.com/eddiejaoude

Equipment: Sony A7III, Tamron 28–75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD, Moza AirCross and iMac Pro with Final Cut Pro

Medium post https://medium.com/@eddiejaoude/failure-is-an-option-21a74a8fbf81

Small YouTubers event London

Eddie Jaoude — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:41:49 +0000

Small YouTubers event London

How to grow on YouTube — Small YouTubers and content creators event. Great event in London for networking and community building for small YouTubers.

YouTubers with YouTube channels from a few people to 100k, everyone was really down to earth and friendly and keen to share their experiences and ideas — also including tips on community, collaboration (collabs), sponsorship etc.

Dont forget the bloopers at the end ;)

Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos on #opensource #github #remote #startup & #inclusion. Eddie is founder of the open source project DashboardHub. http://youtube.com/eddiejaoude

Equipment: Sony A7III, Tamron 28–75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD, Moza AirCross and iMac Pro with Final Cut Pro

Medium post https://medium.com/@eddiejaoude/small-youtubers-event-london-cb3e391edb6d

Daily OpenSource'ness

Eddie Jaoude — Sat, 05 May 2018 00:35:43 +0000

I strongly believe it is better for YOU and YOUR career, as well as the community...and of course the world. If you spend a little time every day contributing to Open Source - I do mean only a little. It is surprising how much a little every day, will amount to a lot over 1 month - imagine 6 months...1 year...you see where I am going with this!!

What is a contribution?

A contribution can be practically anything, YES anything! It is not just about source code and pull requests (aka PRs).

Here are some examples in addition to source code changes and PRs...

Raising an issue for an idea or defect
Documentation - we all know this is always lacking, so if you spot something missing, incomplete or incorrect, contribute it back and help the next person
Confirming someone else's idea or defect, adding any additional value
... and so much more ...

New to Open Source?

If you want to join a community to help you get started in Open Source, please come and pair with me on Open Source Live on Twitch http://twitch.tv/eddiejaoude and join our discord for #TwitchCoders https://discordapp.com/invite/jVwPDFd to continue our discussions between live streams.

If you want to practice your Git and GitHub, my Open Source project DashboardHub welcomes all and any contributions. Even if just for practice. Raise a test issue for fun, we won't mind. Head over there now and start contributing to Open Source today http://github.com/DashboardHub/PipelineDashboard

What are your thoughts?

Do you use Open Source (I think most people do even if they don't realise it)
Do you contribute to Open Source already
Do you want to contribute to Open Source

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below...

DEV Community: Eddie Jaoude

Community GitHub Action that welcomes and logs stats from the community

My Workflow

Submission Category:

Yaml File or Link to Code

EddieHubCommunity / gh-action-community

GitHub Action for the Community, from welcoming first timers to badges

GitHub Action Community

GitHub Action Features 💡

Quickstart

Welcoming message

Additional Resources / Info

EddieHubCommunity / support

Community Help & Support and AEA (Ask Everyone Anything)

Community Support

Guides

FAQs

GitHub Actions Hackathon: json to html table

My Workflow

Submission Category:

Yaml File or Link to Code

EddieHubCommunity / gh-actions-html-table-generator

Read from a json file and write to the README

Table generator

Inputs

github-token [REQUIRED]

html-cell [REQUIRED]

object-field-names [REQUIRED]

columns [OPTIONAL]

json-file-path [OPTIONAL]

file-to-use [OPTIONAL]

section-name [OPTIONAL]

Additional Resources / Info

EddieHubCommunity / awesome-github-profiles

List of GitHub profiles that have awesome customisation, that you can use for inspiration

Note: This repository is not included in the Hacktoberfest event, as it is for practice only!

Awesome GitHub profiles

How can I add my GitHub profile? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Community Spotlight on: Jose David Pereira

David PereiraFollow

Failure is an option event by FemTechTalks

Small YouTubers event London

Daily OpenSource'ness

What is a contribution?

New to Open Source?

What are your thoughts?

`github-token` [REQUIRED]

`html-cell` [REQUIRED]

`object-field-names` [REQUIRED]

`columns` [OPTIONAL]

`json-file-path` [OPTIONAL]

`file-to-use` [OPTIONAL]

`section-name` [OPTIONAL]