What are Communities?

What are Communities?

Introduction

As someone said, If the surroundings are good, then you are good. Having a great environment to learn and grow helps to grow quickly. This environment we will get with the help of communities. Communities play a vital role to support students and in networking to learn and grow quickly together. In this article, we will know about the communities and how it is helpful.

What is Community?

A group of individual people that share their experiences, and knowledge and learn from each other quickly and efficiently.

If we see two people and they are connected, they share their knowledge, and experiences and guide each other because as humans we like to share and learn from each other. If these two are connected with another person then the trio shares.Then if we connected with the group of people that forms a community.

The main principle of every community is to help and guide you and it follows giving back to the community in any form like content, sharing resources, guidance, and mentoring us.

Why do you need to join a community?

  • Communities are the best place to find the right solution for your problem.

  • Communities can help you with Networking

  • Increases your potential and you will learn new stuff as being part of tech communities

  • Will make you better at communication by sharing your knowledge

  • Communities can help you find your next path

  • Can help you to get started with new technology

  • Communities will help you to keep an eye on upcoming events, and programs.

Benefits

  • Problem-solving

Communities help you to solve your problems and your doubts.

  • Networking

With the help of communities, we can network with others.

  • Growing skill

By being part of communities, you will grow your skills.

  • Collaboration

You can collaborate with other folks and build amazing projects, conducts sessions, and many more. By collaborating you will expand your knowledge.

  • Passion

You can discover your passion, and as part of the community, you can express your passion in different formats knowing about new technology, creating content, and speaking at conferences.

How to find communities?

You can find local communities in your college.

In your college, if no communities are present then can find local communities in your place or areas such as GDGs, AWS, and many more.

And, You can amazing online communities and they are global communities.

The steps you need to follow to find the right tech communities:

-> Analyze and understand what you are looking for.

-> Every community has an aim or technology it is about.

-> Built communication with the community members to know about the community.

-> Get prepared to learn, contribute and grow.

How to Get Involved in Communities?

The steps you need to follow to get involved in communities are as follows.

Step 1

Identify and figure out the communities.

As there are lots of communities are there, choose the communities as per your interest in the tech.

Step 2

Join their communities like slack channel, discord channel. Then introduce yourself to the community.

Joining the communities, helps you to ask your doubts and definitely at least one person from the community can answer your question.

You can join channels through the website, as the community websites keep their channel links.

Step 3

Staying up to date with the communities. You can follow their social handles.

We need to know about the communities that we are a part of. What is happening in the community, can be done by keeping the eye on their social media.

Step 4

Open-source contribution

Contribute to the community, go to the Github repo, and start contributing. Find issues related to your interest, if you can't able to find issues you can ask in their channel.

Step 5

Be active in the community.

Help others and be humble to answer everyone's questions.

Learn and build connections.

Attend Meetups and conferences.

Conclusion

I hope you got an insight into the communities. Communities are the best place to learn and grow quickly.

Community is all about

Community=Learning+Building+Networking+Collabration+Experience+Skills

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