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.