Outreachy | Week 1

May 30, 2021

This is the first weekly blog of my Outreachy internship with OpenStack.

So YAY! Finally, the Outreachy Internship has started from 24th May, 2021 🄳

What a productive week it was(24th-30th May). And I’m extremely happy and fortunate to pursue it under a very highly reputed Open Source project, the OpenStack.

I’d like to take a moment here to thank my Project Mentors, Victoria Martinez de la Cruz and Goutham Pacha Ravi for always guiding me throughout the whole Outreachy contribution period (even now :)).

Before I begin, let me share a little about myself. I’m Archana Kumari(she/her), OpenStack intern in Outreachy and a Frontend Developer. I’m a computer science graduate based in India. My interests are in Product Engineering, Open Source, Web Performance, Community Building, User Experience, and Blogging (well more on this later, I’m writing a separate blog introducing myself).Ā 

I’m working here for the OpenStack project ā€œOpenStackSDK support for Manilaā€ under the guidance and support of my mentors Victoria Martinez de la Cruz and Goutham Pacha Ravi.

Summary of the week:

  • It all started with the kick-off meeting with my project mentor, coordinator and the other interns. It was an amazing experience for me that I got to interact with my project mentor after a long contribution period.
  • For the next couple of months, I’ll be going to work on the OpenStack Manila UI project. So I ended up reading so many documentations/blogs of OpenStack to make myself comfortable with their environment and all the other stuff.
  • I set up my website(for blogs) using a static site generator, Gatsby (yeah! Gatsby is amazing).
  • The Outreachy community has a chat on Outreachy Zulip Server. It used to happen every two weeks. It was my first internship chat and I loved it, as I got to connect with so many people, got to know about their journey, efforts and some valuable points from organizers. I would like to quote one thing from our chat which I feel is so precise. 🌻

Everyone doesn’t know everything. It’s just that many people in open source know a lot about a small number of topics. Individually, we’re experts in one or two topics. Working as a group, we’re experts in a lot of topics.

@Sage SharpĀ 

  • Then I have started setting up the development environment for OpenStack with devstack. I’m still working on it(faced few issues there🄺). Also, I attended the OpenStack Manila weekly team meeting on the fourth day of the week(waiting eagerly). Got a chance to interact with other team members of OpenStack and they welcomed the new Outreachy interns in a very warm way. So happy to be a part of this team.

That’s all for the week. It was full of learning new stuff daily 🄳.

See you next week šŸ™‹šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø.


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