Contributing to the Erlang Ecosystem: My Journey from Individual Contributor to Maintainer

Lately the Erlang Ecosystem has grown to address many new domains. But is its community growing enough to support it? My experience as a new contributor may shed light on this.

I'm a 16 year old student who started contributing to the Livebook, Hexpm and Nx projects at 14. Since then I've grown from being a raw newbie to receiving funding from The EEF to work on packages that will support Erlang's telemetry implementation.

Join me as I talk about my challenging transition and see how I:

• overcame my fear of the opensource community
• learned to work with other members
• found more meaningful ways to contribute
• learned to balance my contributions with my other priorities

If you're new to the community, you'll learn how to get started and grow in the community - even if you have as little experience as i did.

Maintainers will see how the community helped me to make valuable contributions, how it got in my way, and how my experiences can help their projects.