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| 1 | +title: CC Vocabulary - My Internship Ended |
| 2 | +--- |
| 3 | +categories: |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +cc-vocabulary |
| 6 | +product |
| 7 | +outreachy |
| 8 | +--- |
| 9 | +author: conye |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | +series: outreachy-dec-2019-vocabulary |
| 12 | +--- |
| 13 | +pub_date: 2020-04-02 |
| 14 | +--- |
| 15 | +body: |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +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. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +##Summary of My Internship with Vocabulary |
| 20 | +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](https://github.com/creativecommons/vocabulary/pull/145) to the revamped Vocabulary. Here is a summary of my time with Vocabulary. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +###When I started my Internship, Vocabulary comprised of: |
| 23 | +- UI components built with Vue |
| 24 | +- Styling was written with Stylus |
| 25 | +- live style guide built with Styleguidist |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +###Currently: |
| 28 | +- UI components built with extending Bulma library components. |
| 29 | +- Styling extended with SASS. |
| 30 | +- An interactive playground experience built with Storybook that provides a live style guide and documentation. |
| 31 | +- A subset Vue-Vocabulary with the same styling but to support platforms built with Vue |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +To use the Vocabulary components, check out its [Github repository](https://github.com/creativecommons/vocabulary). You can also have a playground experience on [storybook](https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.com) |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +##My Progress |
| 36 | +Before this internship, I had just switched careers from Network engineering to Software development and this experience came at the time needed. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +###Where I was before the Internship |
| 39 | +- No experience working on open source project (or any free open source project) |
| 40 | +- My technical skills were basically on the front end (HTML, CSSS and JavaScript with little React) |
| 41 | +- No experience working remotely as a Software developer |
| 42 | +- Had only written one blog post on medium |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +###Where I am now |
| 45 | +- 4 months experience working on open source project |
| 46 | +- Improved on my previous technical skills, adding new ones (added Vue, Storybook, Webpack, Docker) |
| 47 | +- 4 months of experience working with a team remotely as a Software developer |
| 48 | +- Written additional 6 more blog post; 3 here and 3 for Outreachy |
| 49 | +- Improved communication skills |
| 50 | +- Improved time management |
| 51 | +- Still working to improve where I am now |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +##Whats next? |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +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. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +My special appreciation to Outreachy for this opportunity, the entire CC team especially those I worked with, My mentors [Hugo Solar](/blog/authors/hugosolar) and [Dhruv Bhanushali](/blog/authors/dhruvkb) for their guidance, direction, and help whenever I got stuck, also to the Director of Engineering [Kriti Godey](/blog/authors/kgodey) for always checking up on me ensuring I had a wonderful internship experience. |
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