How the LFX Mentorship Program Helped me Level-Up My Career
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Timeline and outcomes: starts contributing on GitHub in Jan 2020, joins the Linux Foundation LFX mentorship and is accepted as a mentee in March 2021, receives a stipend so contributions become sustainable, progresses from small bug fixes to shipping larger features on CNCF projects and Apache APISIX, gets hired by the company behind the project to work full time on open source, returns as a mentor for two CNCF projects, cites community metrics 82% welcome / 18% unwelcome and 89% feel positive impact.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Open source journey intro
- 1:47LFX Mentorship discovery
- 3:51First contributions & acceptance
- 5:59Transition to full-time open source
- 7:25Becoming a mentor
- 9:11How LFX boosts careers
- 10:55Open source impact
- 11:17Q&A
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