how it works!?

[Mounamoon14]

Introduce yourself

hello everyone, i am MOUNA from Algeria (nord Africa)

Links (optional)

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Where are you in your GitHub journey?

Brand new to GitHub

And where are you going next on GitHub?

i have this account since 3 or 4 years but i know nothing on GITHUB! how it works how to get followers or friends i am feeling a little alone here and lost

What technical skills or projects are you working on?

transcription

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[Git-FED]

Lets be friends man, also why dont you make a transcription app. Use ai to create the files and have ai tell you how to upload it. I can help you get started with your first project it will take 5 minutes to get it up and running to, follow my org and ill send a invite Github.com/FED-EDU

[imMamdouhaboammar]

@Mounamoon14 you can ignore the follower count for a while. GitHub's social graph tends to compile from the work people can see

The profile is basically an index of your repositories, commits, issues, pull requests, reviews, stars, and conversations. GitHub even describes profiles as telling the story of your work through repositories, contributions, and discussions

Since you're working with transcription, I'd start with one tiny public repo instead of trying to learn GitHub as a whole

Something like:

transcription-playground/
├── README.md
├── samples/
│   └── short-audio-transcript.txt
└── src/
    └── ...

The first README can be ridiculously simple:

# Transcription Playground

I'm learning GitHub while experimenting with transcription

## Goal
Turn audio into readable text and learn the workflow one piece at a time

## What I'm learning
- Git
- commits
- issues
- pull requests
- transcription tooling

Then make one change at a time

create repo
   ↓
commit something
   ↓
open an issue for the next idea
   ↓
make the change on a branch
   ↓
open your own pull request
   ↓
merge it

That little loop teaches you most of the GitHub vocabulary much faster than reading twenty pages about GitHub

GitHub's official [Hello World](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/start-your-journey/hello-world) tutorial follows essentially this path: repository → branch → commit → pull request → merge

And @Git-FED, the transcription-project suggestion is actually a good fit here. I'd just keep the first version much smaller than a full AI app. Getting comfortable with the repo workflow is already a useful first project

One other trick, @Mounamoon14: create a public repository with exactly your username as its name and put a README.md inside it. GitHub will render that README directly on your profile, so you can explain who you are, what you're learning, and link your transcription work. GitHub documents that behavior [here](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/profile-customization/managing-your-profile-readme)

As for people, GitHub does have Follow. Following someone puts their public activity into your dashboard and helps you discover projects around the communities they're part of

The more interesting connections usually happen inside repositories though. Find transcription, speech-to-text, subtitles, accessibility, audio tooling, or NLP projects you genuinely care about. Read an issue. Ask a useful question. Fix documentation. Test something. Leave a thoughtful comment. Eventually open a small PR

You don't need permission to start being useful

GitHub has no addFriend() API

Apparently it expects friendship to emerge from git commit eventually 😅

[kumaranju9865]

Hello @Mounamoon14
Nice to meet you here.
This account is new, but I have enough experience using GitHub... LoL
Please check my profile, and if you favorite it, let's connect!
I am happy to be your friend and teach you.

[kumaranju9865]

Well, if you are open to it, please reach out to me via
kumaranju9865@gmail.com