Being an outreachy intern, I received 500$ as my travel stipend and I grabbed the opportunity to attend Fossasia Summit 2019.

Fossasia is an organization developing software applications for social change using a wide-range of technologies. Fossasia Summit 2019 took place in the mid of March month in Singapore region. An annual conference for open-source developers in which people came from the different countries to share their knowledge on software, hardware and designing data in order to improve and vast the open tech solutions.
I attended various talks and workshops that helped me know about more open-source and what are it’s various parameters. There happened panel discussion on the topic “Bussiness, Government, Science – What opportunities does “Open” bring to Society”.

I came to know how IBM’s involvement in the open source movement, how businesses like IBM benefit from open source, as well as how to approach open contribution and open governance in the future. Open is becoming the new common foundation across business, government, science, and industry today. They work across a wide variety of internal stakeholders to ensure that that the contributions we make to the community also provide greater value to their clients.
In the exhibition area, I visited some booths and also grabbed stickers and cool swags 😛
I met amazing and super awesome people there that came from various different countries to create,develop, design and share their experience of Open Technologies that benefit us in different ways.

 

A huge thanks to Outreachy and Mozilla Community for providing me such wonderful opportunity. It has been a month since my internship ended and it feels sad. Being part of Mozilla Community is an awesome feeling and it’s the most welcoming community.

Outreachy is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects for people who are typically under-represented in those areas.You can read about how I got this amazing opportunity in my previous blog post 🙂

Every big journey begins with a single step. This is why every interaction with our website should be deliberated to make sure that it is the best possible way to help the user accomplish their goal.

The users should be able to pickup the website for the first time and understand the way the pieces fit together immediately. To provide the users that kind of seamless experience, the flow has to be efficient and perfect.

 

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WHAT IS USER FLOW?

User Flow describes the steps that users takes to access a function or perform particular steps on the website. It is created to predict and show the possible routes with which the user can interact with the website. They define us the logical task that could be accomplished with the help of user flow diagram.

                                            Initially, it seems difficult to me as I haven’t done this before. Then, I learnt the meanings of different symbols, shapes, tools I could use and I have great urge to complete this from the user’s perspective. I tried to organize all the information that I collected while learning about the website.

HOW TO GET USER FLOW RIGHT?

Do you remember how teachers in school forced us to write outline essays before actually drafting them? Sure, it was a little bit of a hassle and we probably would have preferred to dive right in sometimes, but it was worth it. We would end up with stronger organization, better supporting evidence and less work in the revision stage. It might have even saved you time!

                                        The same is true with user flow. Diagramming can help by forcing you to think through every step of user flow.

 

WHAT’S THE NEED OF USER FLOW DIAGRAM?

The user flow diagram helps us to predict what brings the contributor to our website and how they act. Understanding user flow means understanding our users and make innovation and improvement in the on-boarding process in accordance with the requirements. Currently, am working with the SUMO community to make improvements and certain changes to have good user flow.

 

 

 

 

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton