I am Marie on.

As you can see, these air.

If he versions off my name where people love typing them, the 1st 1 is the correct.

In case you were doubting and today I'm gonna share my story from other labs.

Hecker Space.

So a prolapse is actually physical community and not just an online community.

Ah, it's a hacker space.

If you If you are familiar with the term, you probably know what I'm going to be talking about.

Ah, it is a community where we care most about open source projects.

These are their main pillars.

What we send and try to promote, which is open source technologists, open data open technologists under its alternative licenses for creative works like music and images and designs and all of this kind of stuff.

But how I got there all started back in 2016 when I was on my second year on my university, my bachelor said is at that time in March, a friend of mine called me and told me that in two months in May of the time a conference is going to happen, a conference which is cold all Scott open So's Conference Sylvania.

And they're looking for volunteers.

Most of the volunteers, usually our students, and then asked her, Why should I go there?

Why should I spend my weekend helping you know, a conference?

I had never been to one.

That's true.

Ah, so I followed her advise.

I attended the conference.

I stay there for two days.

I met a lot of people from different countries who knew a lot of self different kind of stuff, and I realized that tech is so diverse on its home not only the people but consisted, but also, um, trying to find what you like the most.

For example, there are people that I coding other that like system administration, design and even people who are like more into the this marketing part.

They're more people's person.

I am not.

I hate public speaking.

As you can see, that is a picture of that day.

I am somewhere in the middle, three years now back to 2019 and I have learned a lot from this community because later on, of course, I joined them and I kept organizing smaller events other than justa an annual conference.

I have met amazing people.

I've had the chance to attend larger events like this one and made people like you.

Ah, the most important to me part is that I have become a little bit more confident for myself.

Not that I became more smarter than this than then.

I'm the same person, but just the that the boost you get from this people and their kind words make you feel more comfortable about you.

On also re share what you know her sharing your story like these sessions re sharing your knowledge and your experience is what will make people like me of the time be in a stage like this a few years later and you conceal that.

But many, many ways away that I chose to re share what I knew was in January when I found out about this conference is, um before I apply, I shared it with my community.

We haven't online form and the scores for him.

And I said that Hey, guys, I can I saw on Twitter that this conference is air happening.

Um, they have some scholarships too.

Good for my I am a sculler.

This year, I share the lengths.

Unfortunately, the C F P was closed at that time.

So I just hurried for people who just wanted to come as guests on attempted conferences.

So not only meals.

Another girl's applied for the conference.

And I was my my way of saying thank you to this people for everything that you've done for me and probably give back something to them that is all for me.

Thank you.