Instructor: Join the community.
Now, what is a community?
Community are the bunch of people come together
to build something for one cause.
So Linux.
Think of Linux.
You know so many things about Linux now, right?
Now, you know that Linux is an open source
and it is built by people like yourself.
People have spent time out of their busy schedule,
out of any interest of making money,
spent some time added code to Linux.
Now Linux has become one
of the major operating system in the world.
So those people who have participated in the community,
there are websites,
these are blogs and forums.
So those are the people who actually have
made a difference in this world.
And now I want you to do the same.
This is your turn now,
and specially for those who do not have any experience,
any prior experience in IT or Linux.
Some of those community forums or blogs
that I have listed here that I really like and I prefer
are centos.org, linuxquestions.org,
linuxforums.org, linux.org.
And anything that ends with .org,
you should know that these are just an organization,
non-profit organization.
They are not there to make money.
So go ahead and support them.
Give you're full participation,
you're full attention.
And there are other ones like linux.com, howtogeek.com.
That's fine, you could join them.
They also do a lot of good work for the community.
Also, these websites and/or these forums
are used to troubleshoot issues, like real issues
of people that actually work in a corporate environment.
So what they do is they troubleshoot.
They have an issue, they troubleshoot it,
they cannot resolve it,
they go onto these community websites
and they post their issue there.
So people who are joined in, they all get the alert,
all get the notification that this person
is seeking for help.
So you could go in and actually troubleshoot
those issues for them.
And that troubleshooting will count toward
as your experience that you help someone
in that community.
Then there are other website, other social media website
like Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube.
If you go back in the history
and really look for the purpose of YouTube,
why it was developed.
Well the main purpose, or primary purpose of YouTube
is to spread in knowledge.
That's how it was set up.
Now, a lot of people use it for different purposes.
That is fine, but the main purpose was to spread knowledge.
Also look at the Facebook.
People use Facebook for many different reason now,
especially where they ate,
what kind of pictures they're gonna post.
But really, if you take advantage of social media,
you're gonna learn so much.
And there are so many communities out there
for Linux that are built.
There are groups that are built in Facebook
that actually share resources from one another.
So these are a few communities
that I really want you to join.
And this, once you join them
you could actually quantify your hours
being spent helping people.
So let's say, if you have joined
the community centos.org
and you help people troubleshoot issues
like two times a day and it takes you two hours,
one hour, three hours.
Count that number of hours toward your experience.
You could go to your resume and put it, centos.org,
and put it the number of hours you work there
or number of hours you help the community.
That counts.
Yes, trust me that counts.
People do look at it that you are a person
who help the community
and that will make a lot of difference.
And besides, whether it is good for your resume or not,
if you help someone, you know there's a truth.
The universal truth is what goes around comes around.
You will be helped, I promise you that.
So please go ahead, join the community and help out people.