My experiences in the hacker community

Getting involved has been the most important thing I've done for my career. I want to say some reasons for that in this post.
My Story
I started to code in computer science from first year. My first community event was volunteering at a Tech-fest event(kolkata- MINI MAKERS FAIR) in my city. It was a great experience. Then, one month later I participated in different project competitions, poster competition, photography, and Lecture series. I started attending hackathons from 3rd year.
This year's LHD: Share is my first hackathon, which I am really enjoying. Joining #Eddiehub is the best thing. Collaboration first, code second this line is powerful. I was always curious to solve challenges and make things done. Things I have done in this LHD were quite brainstorming and interesting. I have learned a lot from my first Local Hack Day. To be honest I wasn’t expected that I will learn these many new things in a week. I shocked myself that I’m doing these many things. It was an amazing local hack day event for me. I would like to thank MLH for hosting these amazing events and my favorite guild EddieHub and guild members. After attending MLH I have learnt team and collaborate in projects makes you a better person and that help you to become a better coder, as you always learn something new from every hackathons.

The communities that I am a part of:

1. DSC,UEMK
2. OSA
3. SPIE
4. IETE.UEMK
5. EDDIEHUB
6. SPIE-OSA-UEMK student chapter- Secretary
7. Facebook Developer Circles, Kolkata
8. ACM
9. Hackclub
10. WomenTech Network-Global Volunteer.

how can you start getting involved?
Here are some tips,

1. Answer Questions, #Discussion
2. Twitter
3. Blogging
4. Developer Circles
5. Chat Groups
6. Contribute to open source
7. Meetups
8. Conferences

Tech communities not only enable members to upscale their technology skills, but also provide them high visibility among IT recruiters – giving them a unique opportunity. Lastly, I love to be part of communities.