How I became a self taught full-time Open Source developer

In this video I share my journey from avoiding and hating coding classes to open source being a hobby, becoming GitHub Star of the Year and founding the EddieHub community.
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How I became a self taught full-time Open Source developer

[@eddiejaoude]

What is your adventures and journey, please share below 👇 We have EddieHub community spotlight blog posts www.eddiejaoude.io/blogs

[@jishanshaikh4]

Similar to my life too.

[@eddiejaoude]

oh interesting! Great to hear :)

[@longqua69]

Thank you so much Eddie. You changed my life. My adventure is very similar with you. At the first time I saw your video, I'm an LSI design engineer with a very low salary in tech industry. After watching your videos and trying to learn from the open-source community, I'll get a job as DevOps engineer at the beginning of August with a salary that equals to triple times my current salary. Now, I'm the main and the only income of my 6-person family at the sophisticated situation in my country. I've been learning more to get a remote job in data science. So far, I've been learning so many skills from you. This video is really awesome. Thank you so much again, Eddie.

[@eddiejaoude]

OMG this comment has made my day!! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply with such details. It makes me so happy to hear about your success. Please keep us posted on your journey and maybe in the future we can do a collaboration :)

[@longqua69]

I'll do it. Actually, we've collaborated. I'm longqua69 in the EddieHub community.

[@eddiejaoude]

oh I see! I did not realise :). Maybe in the future we can share your awesome story in a blog post on my blog eddiejaoude.io/blogs

[@longqua69]

@@eddiejaoude thank you :D. I love it

[@ShaikMoAbdullah]

I like "Do it consistently"

[@massive_d]

Hey, I also took up electronic engineering just because it was a traditional branch. And by the end, I absolutely hated electronics.

[@eddiejaoude]

lol oh nice! I love hearing people's stories, thank you for sharing 👍what are you working on now?

[@architachaudhary2204]

i m just getting started with opensource . i am glad i got to know about this in my early years i am still in my first year of college :) joined your community already looking for new oppurties and learning in public !!

[@eddiejaoude]

Great Archita! You can do it! Keep going

[@architachaudhary2204]

@@eddiejaoude thankx for the encourgment !!. :)

[@SumitSingh-ne1zr]

Hey Eddie, I started the open-source in august, when I finally graduated from Computer Science and make few contributions to Girl Script Summer of Code projects. And I start following Kunal Kushwaha, his community and start learning, sharing. Then in one collaboration of yours with Kunal, I found your community and it's great to work in the future. But sometimes I regret that why I started so late, almost after 4 years I start doing contributions and looking to make more contibution.

[@eddiejaoude]

Great work! It is never too late! It is better to start late, than never to start. Keep going, you are doing great 💪

[@raginikatre3070]

Hi Sumit, I also found open source way too late, right now I am a full time professional is it possible for me to contribute and start with open source with full time job?

[@arslanali774]

inspired by you and others i have started to learn how to open source , i will let u have a look on my first one soon :)

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you so much! Yes, I look forward to seeing your open source project 👍

[@thejasong01]

Awesome Video Eddie!

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you Iason!!! You are always super collaborative and supportive in the EddieHub community, it is awesome!

[@thejasong01]

@@eddiejaoude Really happy to hear that !!

[@akhileshthite]

Great video!

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you Akhilesh for the great feedback! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@markadyash]

thanks for awareness

[@eddiejaoude]

Thank you for the reply! I hope it helps, if you need to know anything else let me know and I can try to create a video on it

[@markadyash]

@@eddiejaoude i will do my best for open source

[@eddiejaoude]

Little and often, you don't have to do anything big, just small steps and you will get a big success in the long run (it is a marathon not a sprint) - chat to the community in our EddieHub Discord, there are amazing members there!

[@shubhamkumarsingh8231]

Can you please tell us from where we can attend meetings, please 🙏🙏🙏

[@eddiejaoude]

Which meetings are you referring to? The EddieHub events? There is a schedule on our website eddiehub.org any questions let me know

[@vishalsinghpanwar2972]

Is open sourcing restricted to only the field of #softwaredevelopment ?, or is there any chance where we can contribute in other fields like #DataScience, #Cybersecurity, #Blockchain, etc, unable to find clarity on this...if any of you know please reply!

[@eddiejaoude]

I replied to your same question on the other video

[@baileyburnsed4352]

NO, there is open source patents, art, books, games, even cooking recipes

[@FranciscoLeonsuperoptimo]

But Open Source developers income comes only from donations. That's not sustainable. People don't pay for free stuff

[@munkhtengergankhuyag7811]

skylinetenger

[@kunalsharma-wj5bi]

sir how can I become like u please tell i am going to enroll myself in cse branch after two months u probably the guy i want to be in few years🥺🥺plz tell

[@eddiejaoude]

get involved in the community and help people, contribute to open source to learn faster and get noticed. Did you join EddieHub yet? eddiehub.org

[@engineerscodes]

My repo - github.com/engineerscodes

[@johanngambolputty5351]

The audio visualiser is a bit annoying in my opinion

[@ShaikMoAbdullah]

ShaikMoAbdullah

[@Razvanh29]

I have been doing open-source for years, but I can't live from doing that. I need to code for corporations (and I _do_ code for corporations). 😥

[@eddiejaoude]

More companies are going open source and also giving month to open source projects - things are changing

[@farjadahmedkhan6693]

Farjad-akhan

[@eddiejaoude]

Please submit a GitHub issue to EddieHub Org support repo and we can review on a live stream and give it a shout out

[@farjadahmedkhan6693]

@@eddiejaoude sure I'm on it As I'm a newbie, I'll come back to you if any doubts Surprised to get a reply so soon from you Thank you very much

[@eddiejaoude]

You are welcome! Did you join EddieHub community yet? Come and chat to the amazing EddieHub members and geek out with us on Discord and GitHub 🤓 We have weekly live streams and calls plus many more things 🎉

[@eddiejaoude]

Website link eddiehub.org

[@farjadahmedkhan6693]

@@eddiejaoude yes I have followed Eddie on all the platforms Still trying to get the hang of working with GitHub and open source. I would definitely be grateful to have your mentorship , looking forward to learn from you Eddie. Thank you

[@alamzia2905]

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