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This will be my last blog as an Outreachy intern. My watch as an intern has come to an end. I am glad I chose the Creative Commons community or rather am glad Creative Commons chose me (am not the chosen one). I have gained a lot of valuable knowledge, skills and I am more confident in my abilities.
##Summary of My Internship with Vocabulary I have been more involved with the Vocabulary project during my internship and am happy with the work that has been done so far. I made 24 pull requests with 17 merged. My last contribution was adding a header component to the revamped Vocabulary. Here is a summary of my time with Vocabulary.
###When I started my Internship, Vocabulary comprised of:
- UI components built with Vue
- Styling was written with Stylus
- live style guide built with Styleguidist
###Currently:
- UI components built with extending Bulma library components.
- Styling extended with SASS.
- An interactive playground experience built with Storybook that provides a live style guide and documentation.
- A subset Vue-Vocabulary with the same styling but to support platforms built with Vue
To use the Vocabulary components, check out its Github repository. You can also have a playground experience on storybook
##My Progress Before this internship, I had just switched careers from Network engineering to Software development and this experience came at the time needed.
###Where I was before the Internship
- No experience working on open source project (or any free open source project)
- My technical skills were basically on the front end (HTML, CSSS and JavaScript with little React)
- No experience working remotely as a Software developer
- Had only written one blog post on medium
###Where I am now
- 4 months experience working on open source project
- Improved on my previous technical skills, adding new ones (added Vue, Storybook, Webpack, Docker)
- 4 months of experience working with a team remotely as a Software developer
- Written additional 6 more blog post; 3 here and 3 for Outreachy
- Improved communication skills
- Improved time management
- Still working to improve where I am now
##Whats next?
I will continue to contribute to CC open source projects especially to the Vocabulary project that I have become a part of. I would love to see the application of Vocabulary to the development of other CC platforms and applications. I also want to apply the skills that I have acquired to get a full-time software developer position.
My special appreciation to Outreachy for this opportunity, the entire CC team especially those I worked with, My mentors Hugo Solar and Dhruv Bhanushali for their guidance, direction, and help whenever I got stuck, also to the Director of Engineering Kriti Godey for always checking up on me ensuring I had a wonderful internship experience.