Oh, hi.

So, yeah, I'm Catrin.

I'm now front and developer, based in Berlin here.

And when I first heard about the topic here, which is actually a very also my dear to talk about gratitude and how communities come tight to that, um I was thinking to myself, It's like it's there.

One personal one group I'm especially grateful for.

And since my life was very meandering and it kind of still is, um I couldn't pick one Nothing.

The conscious could have just pick one, because it would do injustice to all the other awesome people in communities that have brought me to where I am today s Oh, my quick bio.

Which is not a quick, but it's tight.

All these communities goes a little bit like this.

And I forgot my name tag.

Here s oh, yeah, I was born raised, went to school, finish school, get my first computer only at age 20 since my mom couldn't afford anyone before that study, German literature, linguistics and many, many other things.

Onda round 2000 forage started to double with HTML in C.

S s with the help off the safe html.

Maybe some people still remember.

I see some smiles.

Yes, which is still online till today so you can check it out.

Um, but yeah, I never really followed through.

I finished my university, but ended various jobs, but never really had an idea what I wanted to do with my professional life.

Yeah, maybe something with Internet, but who knows?

Until one day in 2012 Michelle just mentioned it.

The Red Skills workshop in Berlin happened, and that was the one life changing moment for me.

Um, that I can pin pin point it down.

That changed everything afterwards, but it also it didn't fell from the sky.

I didn't hear about it, just like so I heard about it by the burn and Twitter community that brought me in touch with the folks who then also founded the coop space and people who founded to see us as conference Js cons.

Um, yeah.

So the records workshop?

Um, very incredible.

Afterwards, we started off the Berlin the local Berlin chapter, um, which is now called call Curious Michelle.

Mention it because we're not girls after 20 were women or females.

Do not tie it that hard.

And also it's never been just about rails.

It's Ruby and the front end Steck as well.

Um, Then I went travelling, came back in between the summer of cowardice stipend Ship was founded and I wasn't organized there.

And at some point, fun fact, I realized I never learned Ruby, like I'm helping all these people in the Rubio and the rescue its movement.

But I never learned, Ruby.

And at some point again, one day I realized I'm helping all these women become developers.

What about me?

And I saw back to H M Alan CSS and my old lawful sees as a walk again.

And I started to learn it properly.

Learn front and properly amongst others.

With the help of CSS, class is tied to the open tech school.

That flack you mentioned with the conference nails a lot of other things.

At first I wasn't attendee.

Then it became a coach.

I am a kn organizer again, which I would like to use as a small moment.

Our next workshop is on June 16.

If here in Berlin, if you wanna freshen up your CSS come to us.

If you know people who want to learn C s s and HTML.

He sent them our way.

Follower Twitter Or find me afterwards If you know C s s and want to help as a coach.

Also, please find me afterwards.

La, la, la, la In the advertisement, Um and I want to come back to the rails Girls movement And what is behind that?

The ruby community that had the biggest impact on me off all because it's not the lightest.

It's not exclusionary ex inclusionary.

From the beginning, the whole atmosphere has been Developers are keen to support their happy to support.

There were so many people stepping in starting after the first words got workshop.

Within weeks, there were four study groups happening weekly on a weekly basis that was 2 to 4 coaches for each group.

On also the whole existence of Ruby.

The ruby programming language is based on making the coat and the developer ex parents more human experience, making the code human readable.

And this bird went all the way down to the Reds, got community.

And it's something that I want to bring now into the with the snap of CSS classes and together with all these awesome people here also into the CSS and Js community.

And yeah, at some point I realized I am a career changer.

I am what people usually call says halt.

But yes, I do have my share in it.

But it's not just me.

I'm actually community taught because community has made it possible for me to be a front and developer.

Now and last but not least, I want to mention one key factor in the Berlin community scene.

And that is the co op space, an enabler off the Berlin community providing space for hackathons meetups workshops for free so we can stay independent as well.

Um, thank you very much for that.

Please support them, however, and whenever you can just amazing.

And that's it.

Thank you very much for listening.