It’s Time for Summer & A New Community Check-In ☀️

[ghostinhershell]

Hey hey! 👋 Reporting in for a New to GitHub Community Check-In 🗞️

🏆​​ Top Contributors in the Community

Big Kudos to these Superstar Community Contributors 👏

• @madsz1 was trying to set up MaxPhisher in Ubuntu but was running into an error when doing so. @pedrolemos4 came through with guidance that helped @madsz1 find a solution: Getting error 403 when trying to clone MaxPhisher repo??.
• @m4xy07 provided guidance on How to give a friend access to push to a repo without giving him access to your account?.
• @akathedeveloper taught us what to do if you’re unable to push files to your repo: How to use REST API to set user profile status?.

🧠 Popular Unanswered Posts in the Community

Got your thinking cap on? These popular community posts could use your expertise!

• Create Repository from existing folder without syncing present files
• How to display my portfolio of metadata work on GitHub
• Can i use co-author in GIT GUI Pycharm 2024
• Question about github repository license vs acceptable use policy

Have you been helped by a community superstar that you’d like to see celebrated? Tag them to nominate them below!

For community members who post questions, marking responses that solves your question as the answer goes a long way. When you mark a comment in the Discussion as an answer, GitHub will highlight the comment to help other community members quickly find the answer as well.

Remember to thank these and other community members that take the time to comment and help troubleshoot these problems. An acknowledgement of a job well done can have an incredible effect and make someone’s day. ☀️ We’re here to learn, discover and connect so try and mark a comment as an answer if suitable, give a thank you and select a reaction as a way to show your appreciation!

🌳 Putting Down Roots: Cultivating Growth and Innovation in Tech

Ideas that will help lay strong foundations, nurture ideas, and foster an environment conducive to personal and professional development and technological advancement.

• Finish your projects by Aaron Francis - Don’t let fear, or that last 10%, hold you back.
• Build your own luck - Our ReadME Project hosts discuss the value of taking risks and publishing your work 💪
• You can really do anything you want.. with transferable skills! by Jenny Ngo - Learn more about how @hijennyngo successfully transitioned from a non-technical background to a technical career.
• Junior to senior: An action plan for engineering career success by Jerome Hardaway - Enhance your engineering career prospects using this systematic guide for skill development and growth.
• The importance of non-code contributions by Kevin Sundstrom - From documentation to release management, non-code contributions power open source.
• Raising the bar for open source standards by Leonardo Javier Russo - @LRUSSO is working toward a future where everyone can seamlessly participate in open source.
• Open Source is enabling the "Tech for Good" movement by Klint Finley - There’s a growing global movement that’s applying curing edge open source projects to humanity's thorniest problems.

✍️ Quote of the Month

In the end, my experiences and struggles have shaped me into who I am today. They've taught me that being true to oneself, while it comes with challenges, also brings an unmatched sense of achievement. And in my book, that's a win not just for me, but for everyone who learns from my journey.

• From Fixing computers on farms to democratizing DevOps by Kyler Middleton // @KyMidd

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A very big thank you to everyone in the community who actively contributes thoughts and answers to the questions that come into the New to GitHub category!

[ghostinhershell]

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Missed out on our last community check-in? You can check that out here: Out with the old check-in, and in with the NEW ☀️ [New to GitHub Check-in].