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Want to #BuildIntelligentApps with AKS & Serverless on Azure? Join us to #LearnLive!

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:15:00 +0000

👋🏽 | New to the #BuildIntelligentApps initative? Here are three things you can do right now to skill up on AI, Apps, and Data technologies!

1️⃣ | Register for the Intelligent Apps Cloud Skills Challenge
2️⃣ | Register for the AI Cloud Skills Challenge
3️⃣ | Register for the Data Cloud Skills Challenge

👩🏽‍💻 | Want to skill up online with instructor-led #LearnLive sessions? Two more episodes are coming up - so register now!
1️⃣ | Register - Designing Intelligent App Deployment for Scale, Resilience
2️⃣ | Register - Network Security & Access for Intelligent Apps on AKS

Learn Live: Kubernetes

Join the Cloud Native Advocacy on a learning journey to make Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) an integral part of our intelligent application. We’ll use the AKS Store Demo application and learn how to add AI integration, expand support, and scale to meet the needs of your applications.

Click the link to view the replays, starting with Episode 1 below. Note that Episodes 3 and 4 are coming up soon, so register now and watch them live!

Episode 1: - Deploying Intelligent Apps with OpenAI on AKS
Episode 2: - Securing Access to AOAI with AKS Workload Identity
RSVP: - Designing Intelligent App Deployment for Scale & Resilience
RSVP: - Network Security & Access for Intelligent Applications on AKS

Learn Live: Serverless

Join the JavaScript Advocacy team on a learning journey to Deconstruct Contoso Real Estate - an open-source enterprise-grade reference sample for building a composable enterprise architecture with serverless technologies on Azure.

Click the link to view the replays, starting with Episode 1 below.

Episode 1: - Get Started with Contoso Real Estate
Episode 2: - Deconstruct the Portal Application (Frontend)
Episode 3: - Deconstruct Authentication, Payments & Search Integrations
Episode 4: - Deconstruct the E2E Testing & Deployment Workflows

About #BuildIntelligentApps

#BuildIntelligentApps is an ongoing initiative that will help you get familiar with tools and technologies to build intelligent apps on Azure using cloud-scale data, cloud-native technologies, and cloud-integrates AI. Learn more by going to our website

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Meet The Team

The #BuildIntelligentApps initiative is a multi-team collaboration aimed at helping everyone learn how to build AI-driven applications using cloud-scale data and cloud-native technologies on Azure. Here are a few key individuals you can find right here on dev.to if you have any questions, comments, or feedback.

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Azure Developer Technical Lead @microsoft | @WomenTechMakers Lead | Organizer: @ngCopenhagen, @ngVikingsConf & @ngSpain

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PhD & Polyglot - Developer Advocacy @MSFT - Visual Storytelling @SketchTheDocs - Community Builder, Greater New York

To #BuildIntelligentApps just #AskTheExpert !

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:14:59 +0000

👋🏽 | )Want to get expert guidance on building Intelligent Apps on Azure?_ Register for an upcoming #AskTheExpert session and ask product teams your questions - live!

1️⃣ | Register 👉🏽 ATE: Azure Kubernetes Service | Oct 25
2️⃣ | Watch the replay 👉🏽 ATE: Azure Container Apps | Oct 18
3️⃣ | Watch the replay 👉🏽 ATE: Azure App Service | Oct 11
4️⃣ | Watch the replay 👉🏽 ATE: Azure Functions | Sep 26
5️⃣ | Watch the replay 👉🏽 ATE: Azure Functions | Sep 13

About #AskTheExpert

Ask the Expert is a live Q&A series where you can connect with experts in various product teams, to get your questions answered live!

Did you miss the live event? You can find all the sessions available on demand on the Microsoft Learn platform. As part of the #BuildIntelligentApps initiative, we have scheduled AskTheExpert sessions with core product teams for cloud-native technologies, including Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure App Service, and Azure Kubernetes Service. Keep reading for links to replays or to register for upcoming sessions.

[New] Azure Container Apps

Check out the most recent #AskTheExpert session with the Azure Container Apps Product Group to learn about combining the power of AI, cloud-scale data, and cloud-native app development to create highly differentiated digital experiences with microservices. Azure Container Apps is an app-centric service that empowers developers to concentrate on the differentiating business logic of their apps rather than on cloud infrastructure management. Discuss with the experts how to develop adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences by building and modernizing intelligent applications with Azure Container Apps.

[Next] Azure Kubernetes Service

Join the Azure Kubernetes Service Product Group to learn about developing cloud-native apps for high scale and resilience with Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Discuss with the experts how to combine the power of AI with Kubernetes app development to create highly differentiated digital experiences. Develop adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences by building and modernizing intelligent applications with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Register Now | Oct 25 at 12:30 pm EST
Register Now | Oct 25 at 12:30 pm EST

[Prev] Azure Functions

Join the Azure Functions Product Group to learn about FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) in Azure serverless computing. It's time to focus on the pieces of code that matter most to you, while Azure Functions handle the rest. Discuss with the experts how to combine the power of AI, cloud-scale data, and serverless app development to create highly differentiated digital experiences. Develop adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences by building and modernizing intelligent applications with Azure Functions.

[Prev] Azure App Service

Join the Azure App Service Product Group to learn about PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) app development on Azure. Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs on your own terms. Discuss with the experts how to combine the power of AI, web app development, and cloud-scale data to create highly differentiated digital experiences. Develop adaptive, responsive, and personalized experiences by building and modernizing intelligent applications with Azure App Service.

About #BuildIntelligentApps

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Meet The Team

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Azure Developer Technical Lead @microsoft | @WomenTechMakers Lead | Organizer: @ngCopenhagen, @ngVikingsConf & @ngSpain

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PhD & Polyglot - AI Advocate @Microsoft - Community Builder @NY - Innovator (12+ patents) - Speaker & Keynoter - ex-Researcher (UbiComp, DistSys) - Visual Storyteller @SketchTheDocs - Proud Parent

Take the #CloudSkillsChallenge to #BuildIntelligentApps

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:37:34 +0000

👋🏽 | New to the #BuildIntelligentApps initative? Here are 3 things you can do right now to skill up on AI, Apps, and Data technologies!

1️⃣ | Register for the Intelligent Apps Cloud Skills Challenge
2️⃣ | Register for the AI Cloud Skills Challenge
3️⃣ | Register for the Data Cloud Skills Challenge

About #BuildIntelligentApps

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Follow #30DaysOfIA for week-long posts on key topics, watch replays from #LearnLive: Serverless where we deconstructed an E2E app, and join us for #AskTheExpert sessions.

But today, we want to talk to you about our #CloudSkillChallenge initiative to help you skill up on key technologies using self-paced learning in a supportive community environment.

Explore Cloud Skill Challenges

The Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge is a fun, free, and interactive skilling program that provides you with access to Microsoft skilling resources for your specific solution area!

During the #BuildIntelligentApps initiative, we invite you to complete the following three Clould Skill Challenges:

Intelligent Apps Challenge

In the Intelligent Apps Challenge, familiarize yourself with the future of software: Cloud-native app development is your gateway to building modern, containerized, and serverless apps that form the foundation of innovative solutions. During this Cloud Skills Challenge, you'll explore how to kickstart your journey in creating intelligent apps with the power of Azure. Dive into Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and GitHub to craft adaptive, responsive, and tailored experiences.

Start today: aka.ms/build-intelligent-apps/csc/apps

AI Skills Challenge

Through this challenge, you'll harness the power of AI to create groundbreaking apps. The Cloud Skills Challenge invites you to uncover the incredible potential of large-scale, generative AI models. Deepen your understanding of language and code to create applications that are both cutting-edge and responsibly designed.

Start today: aka.ms/build-intelligent-apps/csc/ai

Data Skills Challenge

For those curious about the power and role of data, the Understanding Big Data Challenge is for you. In this Cloud Skills Challenge, you'll explore cloud-scale data with Microsoft Fabric. Discover the capabilities that can supercharge your ability to build data-driven intelligent solutions.

Start today: build-intelligent-apps/csc/fabric

Meet The Team

Multiple teams within Microsoft are organizing the Cloud Skills Challenge. Let's take a minute to say hello to the core team members who are helping drive this effort.

Sherry List - a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. She often presents at conferences about AI and innovations. Find her on Github or follow her right here on dev.to

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Azure Developer Technical Lead @microsoft | @WomenTechMakers Lead | Organizer: @ngCopenhagen, @ngVikingsConf & @ngSpain

Nitya Narasimhan - a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, focused on AI. Find her on Github or follow her right here on dev.to

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PhD & Polyglot - AI Advocate @Microsoft - Community Builder @NY - Innovator (12+ patents) - Speaker & Keynoter - ex-Researcher (UbiComp, DistSys) - Visual Storyteller @SketchTheDocs - Proud Parent

Devanshi Joshi - a Product Marketing Specialist at Microsoft, focused on Cloud Native technologies. Find her on Github or follow her right here on dev.to

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DK Developer community recap: Inspiring projects

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:54:31 +0000

Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals. The first conference, then known as TechEd, happened in 1993 in Orlando, Florida, United States. In 2020, it went all online.

This year together with my good colleague Rasmus Jaqué, I got the chance to host a a session about developer community in Denmark & highlights of their projects & initiatives. This is a short recap about this session.

Corti

Rasmus had a chance to talk to Lars Maaløe CTO from Corti. Corti was founded in 2016 in San Francisco, they felt assured that the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare could enable medical professionals to be better and faster, improving patient outcomes on a global scale. With this showcased project, Corti has build a voice-based digital assistant powered by cutting-edge artificial intelligence, capable of understanding patients talking in natural language. It is used when someone calls for an ambulance in Denmark, the AI agent will be listening in. Using sound-recognition software, it will analyze words and background noises—like a victim’s unusual breathing, even if that person is not the caller—to alert a dispatcher if it believes a heart attack is in progress.

Corti is a very good example on how AI & Machine Learning can save lives.

📺 Watch the video interview bellow between Lars and Rasmus to learn more about this project and their tech journey 👇

Trackman

Rasmus also had a chance to talk to Ulrich Landbo Head of Team Sports Application at TrackMan.
TrackMan has been on the forefront of providing reliable performance data in sports since 2003. Their technologies have become an indispensable part of sport analysis as the data they provide brings clarity, confidence and performance to all levels of play.
Trackman's proprietary, radar-based technology solutions deliver instant, actionable knowledge in a broad variety of sports.

In golf, hundreds of tour players, thousands of coaches, golf facilities, and golf equipment manufacturers trust TrackMan in their daily work.

In baseball, all MLB stadiums and thousands of amateur stadiums rely on TrackMan’s technology to deliver cutting edge statistics to players, coaches and fans.

Other sports like tennis, cricket and soccer, also use their technology to develop talent and products.

Trackman's technologies are also used by the leading broadcasting companies around the globe to cover tournaments of the highest caliber, enhancing both viewer engagement and entertainment.

📺 Watch the video interview bellow between Ulrich and Rasmus to learn more about Trackman's radar technology, what technology it is powered by and their tech journey 👇

DK Developer community recap: Inspiring communities

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:18:49 +0000

REDI School of Copenhagen

We interviewed Ida Marie Bjerre Jepsen from REDI School of Copenhagen, she talks about her journey and how she started the school and how this initiative change people’s lives.

📺 Watch the video interview bellow where she explains about the project and how you or your company can support this great initiative.👇

Hack Your Future Copenhagen

HackYourFuture is a non-profit organisation that aims to train refugees, asylum seekers and other disadvantaged groups to become web-developers and empower them by opening the doors to a very in-demand job market. It was initially founded in 2015 in Amsterdam and today exists in Belgium, Denmark & Canada.
We interviewed Marie Hoff Project Lead at Hack Your Future Copenhagen.

📺 Watch the video interview bellow where she explains about the project and how you or your company can support this great initiative.👇

WonderCoders

We had a chance to talk to Plamena Cherneva about WonderCoders. She briefly talks about this nonprofit association. They have a mission to inspire, empower and support women in pursuing careers in IT and to achieve this goal they run multiple initiatives such as Nordic Women Awards.

📺 Watch the video interview bellow where she explains about the project and how you or your company can support this great initiative.👇

DK Developer community recap: Community Panel

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:18:12 +0000

Community Panel

For those of you who know me in person you all know that community is super important to me. I believe I not only developed my technical skills via community but also I gained many soft skills by getting involved in organizing community events, mentoring others or speak at event.
Because of the importance of this topic Rasmus and I organized a panel discussion with three of most active community leaders whom are behind many different community driven events in Denmark.

In this session, panelists are talking about the communities they are leading, their top learnings and why they believe all of you should look around to find various community driven initiatives and get yourself involved.

📺 Watch this panel discussion 👇

Morten Christensen
Morten works at Umbraco HQ where he helps build Umbraco Cloud and the Headless Cloud offering. Morten is also an Azure MVP, Azure Lover and community addict. He lives in Copenhagen where he helps organize meetups and other community events. When he is not working on Azure or doing Community events you can find him either learning about the newest things in Azure or building/buying LEGO sets (there should probably have been a "LEGO addict" part somewhere in this profile as well - according to his bank account statements).

Marilag Dimatulac
Marilag is the Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect at Dewise, a software development company based in Copenhagen and Manila. To give back to the tech community, she organize events for Azure User Group Denmark and Manila, and speaks regularly at meetups and conferences. She lives two lives on each side of the planet, defying distance, abolishing cross-cultural barriers and scaling walls, to work, play and spend time with wonderfully diverse people.

Lisa Mallner
Lisa is an AI Investment Manager at Copenhagen Capacity and supports business development for high tech companies into Greater Copenhagen. She is an active community builder and supporter of the Nordic startup ecosystem. She is also a project manager Nordic.AI, a nonprofit that supports the AI & ML ecosystem in the Nordics, an organizer of Women Techmakers Copenhagen and the AI Copenhagen meetup group, and runs an English-language news website, Nordic Startup News, for early stage startups.

CONTRIBUTING: Wassim Chegham on Compodoc

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:43:58 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet Wassim Chegham senior cloud advocate at Microsoft & core contributor to Compodoc.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hi I'm Wassim senior cloud advocate at Microsoft. The project I'm going to present you today is Compodoc.

What can you tell us about your project?
Compodoc is a documentation generator tool that is written for Angular or any TypeScript application.
You would basically use it to automatically generate application from your Angular code or your Angular app and you would have this nice website with your whole documentation generated and extracted from your Angular code auto magically for you.
Compodoc helps Angular developers providing a clear and helpful documentation of their application.
Others developers of your team, or internet visitors for a public documentation, can easily understand the features of your application or library.

What contributions are you welcoming?
We're actually welcoming any kind of contributions. You can help us in fixing typos in the readme or on the website itself. You can also contribute by adding new unit tests or fixing our broken unit tests.
Also, we need your help with improving our own documentation for Compodoc or whether like to add missing features or let us know about these missed features.

What skills do people need to contribute?
Compodoc is a CLI tool which means it's a command-line interface tool written in TypeScript and then runs on top of Node.JS. So, familiarities with TypeScript, JavaScript and CLI would be great.
It would be great if you know how to access the file system from Node.JS or manipulate files via it.
Otherwise any basic knowledge with JavaScript or TypeScript and Node.JS.

How do I get started?
In order to get started you could go to Compodoc.app which is the the official website and the best place to familiarities yourself with the project. You could also clone and install the tool locally and run it against any Angular application.
Otherwise you can go on the GitHub repo of Compodoc and check all the open issues. Some of them are labeled with the oktoberfest.
You are welcome to start with those.
Otherwise feel free to pick up any um to pick any.

Thank you very much 🙏

Join, October 2nd, for CONTRIBUTING.md - a virtual Hacktoberfest meetup, free and open for anyone who wants to join. Learn what Open Source projects are looking for contributions, which communities are looking for new members, and who is looking for advice from someone with your exact skill set. Check this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers which we'll release until the event.

CONTRIBUTING: Filip Bruun Bech-Larsen on Umbraco

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:28:28 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet Filip Bruun Bech-Larsen program manager of Umbraco.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hi I'm Filip program manager of Umbraco CMS. We're a CMS that known and loved for its flexibility and great user experience.

What can you tell us about your project?
We're the most popular open source CMS on the .Net stack. We have more than 500,000 active installs and we have about 500 contributors already on GitHub. Since we moved the project to GitHub a couple years ago we have more than 6000 PRs already. So, you can say we're a professionally managed open source project.
We have our own company behind but but the main project is open source and free for all to use and to contribute to.

What contributions are you welcoming?
We're welcoming tons of contributions in many different areas. We are migrating the product to .Net Core as we speak and we're looking for contributions in that. We have issues on GitHub marked as up for grabs and Good first issues.
For the stability of the migration to be successful we're also investing heavily in tests so we're migrating all our tests also and also adding more and more cypress acceptance tests. We are really looking for help on that as well.
If you're not a developer maybe you can help us writing documentation. There's a separate repository for that on GitHub.
Also, if you just want to try out the product and give us your feedback that's very valuable as well. Let us know what doesn't feel intuitive to you and what would you think were different and what would you like us to be.

This year we are doing our own hacktoberfest along with oktoberfest so if you contribute to the Umbraco project, to our docs or to any of our community packages, you will actually get a little extra prize from us.

What skills do people need to contribute?
If you're a developer our our back office is written in .Net so it's the Microsoft stack and that's the toolkit you'll need for that.
The front end is a Single Page Application (SPA), so, you'll need to write JavaScript to contribute to that.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, we really want contributions for our docs or feedback on the product in general.

How do I get started?
We've set a little startup guide on our website so if you go to umbra.co/hacktober. There's a whole getting started guide or if you prefer you can just go directly to our repository on GitHub.
Thanks so much for contributing to Umbraco and we look forward to receiving your Prs.

CONTRIBUTING: Beth Pan on Microsoft Graph Toolkit

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:13:13 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet Beth Pan Software Engineer at Microsoft & core team member of Microsoft Graph Toolkit Open Source project.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hello my name is Beth, I'm on the PAX team at Microsoft and I work with first party and third party developer ecosystems, specifically around Microsoft Graph and my team owns and manages the Microsoft Graph Toolkit open source project.

What can you tell us about your project?

Microsoft Graph Toolkit is a collection of reusable web components and helpers for accessing and working with Microsoft Graph.

These web components are fully functional right out of the box and you can easily integrate them with any web framework such as React, Angular, Vue, ...

It is designed to make it super easy to add Microsoft Graph powered controls into your web application, Team tabs or SharePoint web parts. So, you can use Microsoft Graph toolkit to
authenticate with and fetch data from the Microsoft graph
by just adding two lines of code!

What contributions are you welcoming?
We are welcoming all types of the contributions! We have a project board set up called Community Love there are a lot of good issues that we want help with. They all are tagged in that board and we welcome contribution to anything as small as a typo to anything like new features or bug fixings or even a brand new component.
We also recently released a contest aiming to attract more contributors to our repo. Every month you can enter with a qualified PR to win some super cool Microsoft Graph swags.
The goal of our project is to make it extremely easy for developers to work with Microsoft Graph and that's the reason we started this open source project.
Now that it's been almost a year since we released the toolkit and have gotten plenty of feedback from all of you, we really want to engage with our customers and developers that it's you even further and have you guys help us to build the toolkit that everybody loves! ♥

What skills do people need to contribute?
You will need some basic understanding of web development such as Git, Node.js, Yarn, TypeScript, Web components etc.

But our team is here to help if you are interested in becoming a contributor comment on any of the issues open in GitHub under our repo or send us a message and we would be more than happy to have a one-on-one conversation with you.

How do I get started?
To get started go to our repo column the project at aka.ms/mgt you can build and run the project using Yarn and we have Storybook set up for testing and showing the components as you develop them.
Just go ahead and have fun!

CONTRIBUTING: Trevor Hinkle on electricityMap

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:44:18 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet Trevor Hinkle head of electricityMap open source project.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hi there, I'm Trevor Hinkle and I work on the electricityMap team part of an open source project that shows the climate impact of electricity around the world.

What can you tell us about your project?
electricityMap is an open source visualization and collection of data parsers that shows the carbon footprint of electricity that's being produced and consumed all around the world.
If you go to electricitymap.org the kind of front end of our project, you can see where electricity is being produced and consumed & where is it coming from. For example it's coming from wind, solar gas nuclear etc. And, where is the power flowing around the world and the carbon footprint at any given time.

What contributions are you welcoming?
Over the years electricity map has been built as part of a community and we've had thousands of contributions particularly around getting new data on electricity map so when you are on electricitymap.org you can see that there are some areas which have era are colored in and some which are gray. The areas which are gray are areas where we don't have data yet and so we're always welcoming contributions for people who are interested in hunting down new data sources or particularly looking for hourly data that is updated every hour with a breakdown of where power is coming from in any given region, how power is being produced as well as the cross-border physical flow so if electricity is being imported or exported
to neighboring grids that's an important aspect of what we do.
So, if you're interested we would love for people to help build new parsers and add new data to electricityMap in those gray areas but also if you see an error with an existing area we'd love for your help to integrate a new data source or correct something there.
Also, if you're interested in helping out on the user experience and data presentation side of things we welcome your insights there as well.

What skills do people need to contribute?
To work on the parsers, to help contribute data to electricityMap it will definitely help to have some development skills. Particularly knowledge of Python & data science data engineering. If you go to our repository and you'll be able to see we've given you guides and you can see examples on how to integrate new data sources.
If you don't happen to have these skills then you can also contribute by suggestions and ideas on the user experience presentation side of the project.
Also, if you have knowledge in electricity energy systems then your insights & comments are very welcome.
Finally, you can also contribute by pointing us to the local open data in regions we have lack of data.

How do I get started?
To get started you can just go to our GitHub repository and there
we've written up a guide of how electricityMap works as well as how you can contribute. You can also see the list of issues we are working on. This is the best place to start.

I also recommend looking at electricitymap.org to see how far we've gotten in our mission to map out the world's electricity emissions and see where there is still to go and maybe that might give you some inspiration.
We're looking forward to seeing your contribution on our repository reach out to us on Twitter at @electricityMap and we're looking forward to your contributions and working with you over this period & also hopefully later on!

CONTRIBUTING: David Rousset on PWA Builder

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:36:03 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet David Rousset, co-author of BabylonJS & OSS lead of PWA Builder.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hi, my name is David, I work for Microsoft Corp, as Senior Program Manager. I am in charge of Leading PWA Builder Open Source Project. I have been working in Open Source before, BabylonJS which is a WebGL project.

What can you tell us about your project?
PWA Builder is an Open Source Project which helps developers to either start a PWA project from scratch by using the available template on GitHub or guide you steps to convert your existing app into a PWA app. You start by typing the URL of your app in PWA Builder website, we start to analyze it and tell you what is missing in your app to make a good PWA app, for example you miss a Service Worker or Manifest or how you can publish it to application store.
If you check PWA Builder website you can see all the great components you can add to your existing app to make a better PWA app. Feel free to check what we are working on.

What contributions are you welcoming?
Well, like any Open Source project, we are welcoming any kind of contribution.
First, please use the tool & provide feedback. If you find bug, please do bug report.
Second, Documentation! We try our best to create documentation, but sometimes as a team we don't have enough time to put there. If you can write tutorials, or share your knowledge around PWA Builder it will be so useful. We already have people in the community doing that, but of course would be great if you also join them.
Finally, if you can write some specific fractures and help us building them, that would be awesome. We currently have some help in building different web components that I mentioned earlier, but if you have a great idea and want to help us to help other developers building PWA, please join and help us.

What skills do people need to contribute?
Skill set would be pretty wide. You can just check the product by going through the user flow and see what's missing. You could help us write documentation, you don't need to be a code guru writing documentation.
Finally, if you have coding skills, you can help us implementing features. PWA Builder consists of back-end in Node.js and Azure Functions & Front-end in Vue.js & LitElement.
Most of the time we need more web client development skills, so if you have any knowledge in this area, for instance CSS, please come and join us. We would welcome you! 😊

How do I get started?
To get started, we tried to put everything on pwabuilder.com where you also have the link to our GitHub page. On our GitHub page, you can either create bug report or submit your code. This is the main area where we are tracking bugs. We are improving our documentation as we are speaking to make sure we can welcome you to contribute. But if you have any specific question, you can contact me directly on Twitter via @davrous or @pwabuilder. Feel free to reach us on any channel, we will try our best to help you and onboard you if you want to contribute to the project.

CONTRIBUTING: Wassim Chegham on xLayers

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:10:20 +0000

Leading up to (and during) the month of October, we want to help you discover open source projects to work on, and put your Hacktoberfest contributions to excellent use. Meet Wassim Chegham, creator and maintainer of xLayers.

Check out this page regularly for more interviews with contributors & maintainers

Hi, I'm Wassim, the creator and maintainer of xLayers. xLayers is a tool that lets you preview and convert your SketchApp designs into any JavaScript framework code or library.

What can you tell us about your project?
xLayers bridges the gap between designers and developers and allowing them to collaborate and iterate over a design. For example, designers would use SketchApp to create their design and xLayers converts that design into actual code in any JavaScript frameworks so developers can use the generated code to build on top of it and add all the business logics.

What contributions are you welcoming?
We're actually looking for any kind of contributions! If you are a designer and want to use the tool please feel free to do so and let us know what you think about that. Also, give us suggestion
about the UI & UX of the tool.
If you are a developer we would love your contributions in improving the code base, adding more unit tests and so on.

What skills do people need to contribute?
Since xLayers is meant to be used by both designers and developers, we need actually contributions from both groups. If
you're a designer and have some design skills we would love to have your help on improving xLayers user experience.
xLayers is written in Angular, so the code base is mainly TypeScript. The CLI configuration is written in JavaScript so we would love to have your contributions on that as well. The unit tests are written in Jest and the end-to-end tests
are written in Cypress so if you know these tools that would be really great otherwise there is no obligation feel free to come as you are!

How do I get started?
In order to get started you could go over to xlayers.dev which is the the main website for the tool or you could go directly to the GitHub project and there are a bunch of issues labeled with good for first issue and community help. Feel free to pick any one of those if you if you want to start contributing.
Otherwise you could just simply use the tool, give us feedback and let us know what is missing or if you find a bug by creating feature request or bug repost.
Thank you in advance! 🙏