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My LFX Mentorship Experience

What is the LFX Mentorship program?

The Linux Foundation Mentorship Program, commonly known as LFX Mentorship , LFX mentorship is previously known as community bridge. It's a platform designed by the Linux foundation that accelerates the adoption, innovation, and sustainability of open-source software. Basically Linux Foundation mentorship program is designed for developers mainly first-time open-source contributors learn, experiment, and contribute effectively in the open-source communities.

Mentorship Dashboard

What is open-source?

Open source is like joining a creative community fair where you and others build awesome things together. You contribute your ideas and skills, learn new things, and collaborate like friends working on a big project. It's a global effort, making a positive impact on people's lives, and it's a joyful journey of growth and achievement.

open-source is everywhere(means there are code and non-code contributions it's not just for developers keep that in mind!).

In general, it's free to use, access, and modify depending on the licenses. It's an inclusive community and you get to collaborate with people around the world.

How do I get to know about LFX Mentorship?

Actually I get know about LFX Mentorship program from the tech communites/People on platforms like Twitter, Discord etc...

OpenSource is life-changing for a lot of folks. Companies are hiring OpenSource Engineers. LFX Mentorship is for folks starting out in OpenSource and interested in exploring the modern tech niches companies are looking forward to.

Watch this video for more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0V7Z6UQMBY&t=529s

Varies for each term(as per the LFX Website):

  • (Spring) Mentorships available on LFX Mentorship: mid-January

  • (Summer) Mentorships available on LFX Mentorship: mid-April

  • (Fall) Mentorships available on LFX Mentorship: mid-July

There are only two criteria to get into the LFX Mentorship Program:

  1. You have to be 18 years old.

  2. Not to be a prior participant in the LFX mentorship program

  3. Other than it's open to all.

Apply Here:

Explore Mentorship Programs

What is CloudForet?

Cloudforet is an Open Source Platform for Enabling Integrated Management of Multi-Clouds.

Read more about Cloudforet

My Journey at Cloudforet as a LFX Mentee23

It was a great experience to be an LFX Mentee at Cloudforet because it allowed me to learn more about cloud and DevOps concepts.

I got selected for the Cloudforet plugin development mentorship program:

Mentee Dashboard

After the selection of Cloudforet LFX mentorship, I have been assigned to 5 Tasks to do:

  • Week 1. Orientation and Fundamentals

  • Step 2. Understanding of Cloud Computing & Kubernetes

  • Step 3. Understanding of Protobuf & gRPC

  • Step 4. Plugin Development Basic

  • Step 5. Real-World Plugin Project

I graduated successfully from Cloudforet:

Confirmation Email of Selection of LFX Mentee

Cloudforet 1:1 mentorship by Choonho Son(Mentor)

While doing this mentorship program I was stuck most of the time in understanding the tasks and completing them so my mentor Choonho sir always helped me to understand and complete those tasks and I learned a lot from him.

Doubt Session with Choonho

Conclusion

My experience was great at Cloudforet as a LFX mentorship. And you should apply in the open-source programs like as soon as possible because I can give the this surity that you'll gain somethign new and valuable skills from these programs and networking( you'll meet amazing people from around the world who are working in these kind of organizations.

Check my blog on open-source

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