2023.md

Community Highlights (2023)

December 8, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Diana hosted a Gitpod and Appwrite community meet-up in Denver 🇺🇸

• Content

  • Gitpod is now on dev.to, Medium and Hashnode. Give us a follow!
  • Sébastien from Avien ran an introduction to Spring Data with Spring Boot and MySQL workshop using Gitpod
  • Cloud Native Podcast interviewed Lou Bichard, PM at Gitpod on the importance of developer experience today
  • Andrew Brown is back with another AWS Bootcamp Course that uses the power of Gitpod
  • Briteflux shows how you can develop DBT projects on Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • Derroylo released a new version of his gitpod-tool
  • Lichess Development made easy with Gitpod
  • Create new Astro projects with Gitpod
  • Remote Development for Phoenix with Gitpod
  • Bioconda recipes in Gitpod
  • Fonoster, the Open Source version of Twilio built on Gitpod
  • Datagriff created a Terraform Azure template on Gitpod

November 3, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Upcoming community meetup is happening in Nantes! 🇫🇷
  • We're going to #KubeConNA in Chicago next week, come visit us and win a custom Gitpod skateboard!
  • Cloud Development Environment with Gitpod - a meetup hosted by @titimoby and @k33g! 🇫🇷

• Content

  • Learn how to build and publish AWS CDK constructs - with @pahud.hsieh
  • The Polylith Real World Example, with an IDE Running in The Browser - by @pappapez

• Gitpodify

  • Lichess is using Gitpod to help improve the developer onboarding experience
  • Using BitBuilder to change state in Supabase using Gitpod
  • @erickwendel_ spreading Gitpod love in a presentation 🧡

• Code Contributions

  • Upgrade to java version : 17.0.6-tem by @jeanphi_baconnais
  • Update Gitpod configuration with Java 17 – quarkusio/quarkus by @jeanphi_baconnais
  • fix: typo in splitview.ts by @varundhand

October 20, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Gitpod + AWS Developer Experience meet-up Munich 🇩🇪
  • Gitpod + AWS Developer Experience meet-up London 🇬🇧

• Community Heroes

  • Gitpod Community Heroes at DevoxxMA

• Content

  • Talking about Gitpod at the Python Milano Meetup by Sinan Chaush
  • Cloud Development Environments... but why?! by @onlyspaceghost
  • Gitpod Community Heroes at DevoxxMA
  • Talking about building the Gitpod Community by @paulienuh

• Gitpodify

  • @Anjy_G Gitpodified the Formbricks repo
  • An @Aiven tutorial is now Gitpodified
  • Swirl now works flawlessly with Gitpod

October 6, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Opensource development with Gitpod – a talk by @sinan at Gitpod Milan meet-up with Python Milano!
  • Join the upcoming meet-ups at Muinch and London in collab with AWS
  • Participate in hacktoberfest formtribe to win a free MacBook Air M2 or Gitpod OSS plan
  • Building a high-gravity community a talk by @pawlean!

• Community Heroes

  • @derroylo continues to rule the discord leaderboards
  • @lostinbrittany has been rocking workshops at #devoxx with a Gitpodified workflow
  • @jeanphi_baconnais is out there introducing Gitpod everywhere he goes

• Content

  • .Net API Container on Gitpod – by @datagriff_39991
  • The Goldilocks CDE: Gitpod Fits Between SaaS and Self-Hosted – by The New Stack
  • Create easily your first K8S cluster on Civo.com by – @k33g
  • Mastering Gitpod for Magento 2 development – a free course by @lukecollymore
  • Cloud Development Environments and Gitpod – by @cerealiller

• Gitpodify

  • @sinan111 made two templates configured with bun for React: vite, svelte

• Projects

  • GPT - A tool to make web development easier with PHP on Gitpod by @derroylo
  • The Gitpod Raycast Extension only keeps getting better, try it out!

• Code Contributions

  • docs: Clarify local port forwarding and mention gp ssh by @abitrolly
  • Simplifies setup by @patriciooncode
  • Update laravel by @patriciooncode
  • fix: change README img link to website by @FractalHQ
  • [installer] Remove redundant len and nil check by @Juneezee
  • Updated open-in-gitpod.svg's height and width and fixed issue by @nermalcat69

September 22, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Gitpod + PyMilano meet-up September 26th 🇮🇹

• Content

  • Contribute to cal.com with Gitpod
  • Francesco shares how to open a repository in Gitpod
  • Luke's looking for more students on his Magento + Gitpod Course

• Gitpodify

  • Gitpoddified repo for running the Slingshot wasm runner

• Code Contributions

  • Work on the Gitpod Raycast Extension [1][2][3] by @henit-chobisa
  • Update golang in workspace-images by @gengjiawen
  • Added links to Gitpod Tool (GPT) and php templates by @Derroylo

September 2, 2023

• Projects

  • @palani. and @henit.'s #raycast-extension is now featured among the 💥 TOP 3 EXTENSIONS on the Raycast Store 💥, it's a masterpiece! 💪

• Community Heroes

  • @derroylo continues to be the top contributor when it comes to helping out others 🤘, the community appreciates you! ❤️

• Events & Conferences

  • In case you missed: How Devpod became the primary development environment at Uber

• Content

  • Integrated development environments (IDEs) are not really integrated
  • Learn how to Install and use Algokit with Gitpod – (Bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩)
  • Jenkins quick start examples with Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • @rchrdbyd proposed gitpodification for openai/plugins-quickstart to supercharge the contributor experience
  • @documenso gitpodified their repo for making contributions easy
  • @palani. gitpodified Formbricks, start contributing to Formbricks in a single click

• Code Contributions

  • Add output for sync-await command on gitpod-cli #18576 by @JuJup
  • Several feature request implementations by @chevrontango
    • Adds support for additional auth in docker build #18604
    • Add ECR auth to everything in the registry chain #18615
    • Added comments in the dev/addlicense directory files #18599 by @ibilalkayy
    • Updating the OCaml template to be a little more modern. #3 by @dclements
    • fix: change README img link to website #18637 by @FractalHQ

August 18, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • We just had our Gitpod x Civo x AWS Meetup in London!
  • Next Tuesday we have a webinar on Devpod at Uber

• Content

  • Learn how to contribute to PyMC using Gitpod
  • Sean shows how easy it is to run a Redwood project on Gitpod
  • Arnaud using Gitpod to code on his iPad

• Code Contributions

  • Spread originalConfig rather than reconstructing it @jeremie-stripe
  • Fix baseURL flag by @ALhobby

July 21, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Upcoming meetup in London with Civo Cloud 🇬🇧
  • Community Office Hours with Ellie from Atuin

• Community Heroes

  • Thanks @derroylo for your contributions and congratulations on beating @axonasif in the leaderboard 😆

• Content

  • Quickly get started with RedwoodJS with Gitpod
  • Deep learning and AI REST API's with SageMaker on Gitpod

• Code Contributions

  • Update IHP template to the latest version @mpscholten

July 15, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Upcoming: Community Office Hour: Gitpod SHELL history sync using Atuin – with @ellie_huxtable, don't miss out 🤘

• Community Heroes

  • BIG shoutout to @derroylo, @palani., @jeanphi_baconnais, @henit., @raclepoulpe for being the top contributors over this year, the community appreciates your efforts!

• Content

  • @faermanj is working on a series called Quarkus Pizzas, now with 2 new videos!

• Code Contributions

  • [YBDB] Image - version upgrade by @srinivasa-vasu gitpod-io/gitpod#1234
  • Upgrade Homebrew to 4.0.28 by @mauricioklein gitpod-io/workspace-images#1116
  • Update Go to 1.20.6 by @0xmohit gitpod-io/workspace-images#1041

July 7, 2023

• Projects

  • Zellij plugin for Gitpod Terminal IDE

• Code Contributions

  • Fix DDEV links on PHP page @mikelittle
  • Add BlogGPT (LangChain + LLM Summarization&QA) by @yaohui-wyh

June 30, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Open source made more accessible with Gitpod – a talk by @jeanphi_baconnais at the Breizhcamp conference 🇫🇷

  • Calm development workflows for a collaborative #DevX with CDEs – a talk by @gtsiolis at Gitpod x Elastic meetup 🇬🇷

  • In case you missed it; Community Office Hour: Browser based terminal ⌨️

• Community Heroes

  • Thank you @derroylo for all your contributions towards our community.

• Content

  • Intro to GitPod: A cloud development environment – by Matthew Tyson
  • Using Gitpod with GitLab (for beginners) – an alternative to running the GDK locally
  • Gitpod: Your mobile dev cloud IDE – by Ibrahim Gharbi
  • A complete workflow using GitLab and Gitpod – by @bwklein
  • How to code directly in a cloud environment using Gitpod! – by Térence Chateigné
  • A series on building a pizza delivery project using Java and Quarkus – by @faermanj

• Gitpodify

  • @k33g#4721 shared his Gitpod setup that is well optimized for TinyGo and Golang development!
  • 🤖 Cody – a capable alternative to GitHub Copilot, can now be used on Gitpod!

• Projects

  • Debugging GitHub Actions using Gitpod – a project by @siddhant_k with lots of details!
  • @trumbitta got gitpod-nx up to date for Nx v16 😎

• Code Contributions

  • Use F1 for VS Code Browser command palette by @abitrolly
  • Add note about workaround for storage limitations by @lpmi13
  • Fix two typos in a blogpage by @Coulton Theuer
  • Fix typo in feature_request.md by @abitrolly

June 9, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Our community meetup with our Elasticsearc is right at the door in Athens on June 14 🇬🇷

• Gitpodify

  • @k33g#4721 shared his Gitpod setup that is well optimized for TinyGo and Golang development!

• Code Contributions

  • Use F1 for VS Code Browser command palette by @abitrolly#1058

June 2, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • 🔥 Upcoming: Community Office Hour: Browser based terminal – with @loujaybee#6545, don't miss out 🤘

• Content

  • Effortlessly Run GitHub Repository Applications with Just a Few Clicks - blog post by @Edson Moisinho
  • @mukulmantosh#4915 walks you through a Django project with PyCharm+Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • @JulioFaerman#4213 made a template to help you get started with Red Hat OKD 🎩
  • Get started with @GraphCommerce using Gitpod – a headless PWA eCommerce system
  • Compiling Tasmota for ESP32 using Gitpod – a short guide by @SimonFili
  • No high spec laptop? No worries! Gitpod's got your back for opensource contribution

• Projects

  • @Palani#0257 added a quick shortcut of https://gitpod.new in #raycast-extension

May 27, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Join us for a community meetup with our Elastic friends in Athens

• Community Heroes

HUGE shoutout to @Derroylo#1852 for being super enthusiastic on helping others to Gitpodify

• Content

  • Developing Android apps with Gitpod - a detailed blog post by @IbrahimGharbi
  • How to run a Celestia light node on Gitpod – blog post by @JoshCStein

• Gitpodify

  • @Ayden makes it faster and easier to get started with their code samples through Gitpod!
  • @JulioFaerman#4213 shared a massive workspace-image packed with AWS, Azure, Alibaba, Java, Quarkus, OKD, Tekton and more!

• Projects

  • A lightweight DDEV alternative, geared towards Gitpod, made by @Derroylo#1852!

• Code Contributions

  • [DOCS] Mention about using gp validate by @Methodician#4758
  • [DOCS] Update self-hosted pages by @Utkarshn10

May 19, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Community office hours: OIDC integration for Secretless Workspaces 🔒 by @loujaybee#6545, check it out in case you missed it!

• Community Heroes

  • @Palani#0257 discussess about CDEs and Gitpod at @FOSSUnitedDelhi

• Content

  • Building a Spring Boot Microservice with Gitpod in 5 minutes - blog post by @Dr. Ernesto Lee

• Gitpodify

  • @Chiranjeev Vishnoi gitpodified the opensource Calendly alternative cal.com

  • @Sarutule discovered the power of gitpod for onboarding developers to data analysis! Python and pandas in under 5 mins!

• Projects

  • Check out the ready-to-code Shopware template by @Derroylo#1852! 🚀

• Code Contributions

  • fix direnv installation in workspace-images by @emattiza#2251
  • fix IHP GitPod using newer version of Nix by @CSchank
  • Update README on awesome-gitpod and add AI section with Mattermost + Serge + ChatGPT4All by @azigler

May 12, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Missed #gitpod-berlin🇩🇪 or #gitpod-munich🇩🇪? You can always catch up with the recaps!

• Community Heroes

  • Congrats to our heroes @Henit#9600 and @Palani#0257! Learn about their incredible journey around contributing to opensource and communities [1[2], truly magical.

• Content

  • How to Run AgentGPT and AutoGPT in Gitpod in 5 Minutes – by @Dr. Ernesto Lee
  • Harnessing the FREE Power of Kaggle Notebooks for Neural Network Training – by @Dr. Ernesto Lee

• Gitpodify

  • @rochacbruno#5210, @wilmarques#0956 and @tushar5526 gitpodifying out in the wild [1][2][3]
  • Check out @wilmarques#0956's fun game developed with Gitpod on his iPad!

• Gitpodify

  • template-gcp is now available on gitpod-samples, thanks to @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575

• Code Contributions

  • Dark theme for port-not-found.html and filter functionality gitpod.io/variables by @RayAsh37#1075
  • Several typo fixes [1] [2] [3] [4] by @jwpjr#2755, @charleswhchan#6237, @mosesbenjamin and @AFZL210
  • Support scripts at script/bootstrap and similar by @lgarron

April 28, 2023

• Content

  • Sign up for a free course on Magento and Gitpod
  • Gitlab runner in Gitpod
  • Gitpod template for Google Cloud
  • Get started using Gitpod by Anand Mohan
  • Using Gitpod to contribute to PyMC

• Gitpodify

  • Develop AWS CDK faster with Gitpod

• Code Contributions

  • Update deprecated example in README @bjrne
  • Tooltip to display absolute time by @tanishq-singh-2407
  • Fix workspace delete for keyboard navigation by @RayAsh37
  • New Django Gitpod Samples template by @themilar

April 15, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • DevX Berlin organised by Gitpod 🇩🇪
  • DevX Munich organised by Gitpod 🇩🇪

• Content

  • Gitpod community livestream about Kubecon
  • Gitpod and Magento Course from Luke Collymore
  • CDE Masterclass by Patricio

• Code Contributions

  • Delete obsolete checkbox component by @Devansu-Yadav
  • Migrate to CheckBoxInput by @Devansu-Yadav
  • Update Laravel by @ijpatricio
  • Add wagtail to awesome Gitpod by @themilar

April 7, 2023

• Gitpodify

  • @pedrosanders makes exploring Rox AI easier using Gitpod
  • People utilizing Gitpod to simplify their dev setup for any device [1] [2] [3] [4]

March 31, 2023

• Community Heroes

  • Special shoutout to @Derroylo#1852 for lending a helping hand to many community members.

• Content

  • @Le Poulpe#0020's demo about managing OVHcloud infra is up on our YouTube in case you missed it!
  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575 #contributed a neat Gitpod template that sets up gcloud CLI and a few other things
  • @iDaltonic walks you through his Web3 Development flow with Gitpod
  • @McMunyaka wrote a tutorial about How to run Medusa on Gitpod
  • @devloper_hs made a tutorial about Uninitialized Variables in JavaScript

• Gitpodify

  • Linux compatibility issues? No problem, Gitpod to the rescue!
  • andrey_cheptsov turned Gitpod into a playground for @dstackai, you can try it out!
  • Steampipe now has an integration with Gitpod

• Projects

  • Gitpod raycast extension continues to evolve. Try it out if you haven't yet!

March 24, 2023

• Events & Conferences

• Two very exciting meetups happened at #gitpod-amsterdam🇳🇱 and #gitpod-brest🇫🇷 just this week! [1] [2]

• @Palani#0257 and @Henit#9600 did a live demo of their amazing Gitpod #raycast-extension on office-hours!

• Content

  • Five ways to customize a Gitpod workspace – by @maiertech#1825
  • Adyen Magento Payment Plugin Integration Demo with Gitpod – by @ayodejidev

• Gitpodify

  • Folks embracing the reproducible cloud ephemerality of Gitpod from any context [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

• Code Contributions

  • Hide the latest ide alert warning on workspace timeout – by @devansh_yadav#6838
  • Fix typo docker on the website – by @charleswhchan#6237
  • Several Gitpod #raycast-extension improvements [1] [2] by @Palani#0257 and @Henit#9600

March 17, 2023

• Gitpodify

  • @João Patrício#1344 shows off the Gitpod flow at PHP Portugal
  • People using Gitpod to supercharge productivity, removing burdens for opensource and dev-env setup! [1] [2] [3]

• Contributions

  • @Derroylo#1852 continues to be one of the most helpful on our discord server!
  • @Palani#0257 continues on improving the wonderful raycast extension for Gitpod!
  • replace rollup with vite #8 by @stroblp

March 10, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • 🇫🇷 FinistDevs returns with a Gitpod themed meetup!

• Content

  • Quickly & Easily use MongoDB Atlas with Gitpod
  • Amazing Gitpod Cheatsheet now covers gp rebuild

• Gitpodify

  • RocketChat continues to be Gitpodified!

• Code Contributions

  • Fixed the "Open in GitPod" button by @davidxia

  • Updated GeertJohan/go.rice by @azanar

  • Added GitHub OAuth to our Raycast Extension by @Palani#0257

  • Show a loading spinner when loading team members by @RayAsh37

March 3, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • We hosted our second in-person Gitpod community meet-up in London this week. Thank you to everyone that attended! You can watch the replay of talks on YouTube [1] [2]
  • Our next event is happening in #gitpod-amsterdam! Come join us!

• Community Heroes

  • Our Gitpod Community Heroes page got a refresh!

• Content

  • ICYMI: Watch our Community Office Hour replay on gp rebuild
  • Streamlining Cloud-Native Development with Gitpod and MongoDB Atlas
  • Gitpod x WorkAdventure, led by @Hero

• Gitpodify

  • @gorbak25 has begun gitpodifying his project, Hocus

  • Some interesting discussions by @benedyktdryl on using Gitpod on a lightweight client

  • @faermanjsharing some fedora + gitpod love

  • @sebi2706 updated his VS Code extension that he demoed on a Community Office Hour!

• Code Contributions

  • Improved Integrations UX by Henit

February 24, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • 🇬🇧 Next Tuesday we have our Gitpod London event!

  • 🇳🇱 Gitpod Amsterdam is coming next in March!

  • 🇫🇷 Stay tuned to hear more about Gitpod Brest!

• Community Heroes

  • @Derroylo#1852 and @louidji#9103 join us as our latest community heros!

• Content

  • Remote development in Elixir with Gitpod

  • Find out how SiliWiz works easily on Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • Naitik Gitpodified OctoBot!

• Projects

  • GitHub Code Editorsextension now supports Gitpod!

• Contributions

  • Thanks to @Derroylo#1852 for helping out everyone at our discord server!

  • Fixed Scrollbar CSS by HatGuy68

  • Update the checkmark icon in org selector by Devansu-Yadav

  • Add support for Fedora and delete CI workflows by sprucecellodev125

February 17, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • We have an upcoming Gitpod meet-up happening in London
  • Also in Amsterdam 🇳🇱, led by @Airball#0026!

• Content

  • A Year of Cloud Coding in Review - blog post by @soupbowl#9573

• Code Contributions

  • Improved UX for Environment Variable Item List (Settings) by @Henit_Chobisa#9600
  • Fix Dashboard lint errors for Login.tsx by @Palani#0257
  • Replaced loading svg icon with Loader component by @Deepayan#6639
  • Also several admin dashboard improvements by @devansh_yadav#6838 [1] [2] [3]

February 10, 2023

• MongoDB and Gitpod
• Gitpoddified DevOpsCommunity
• Test in Gitpod button for Postgres

February 3, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • Our first-ever community meet-up happened in Paris! Thanks @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575 for organising.
  • @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575 talked about Gitpod + GitLab at the VeryTechTrip conference

• Community Heroes

  • @Le Poulpe#0020 and David Pilato (@dadoonet) join us as our latest community heroes!

• Content

  • Can developer onboarding not stink? on Gitpod, 100 Kubernetes Tools with Nancy & Nathan
  • Try askui in Your Browser with Gitpod

• Gitpodify

  • David Pilato (@dadoonet) gitpodified this project
  • Nikolay Samokhvalov (@samokhvalov) uses Gitpod for his #PostgresHacking101

• Projects

  • Recipe project built by @jwpjr#2755 on Gitpod
  • "Test in Gitpod" Chrome extension for postgresql.org webpages by @nik#5140

• Code Contributions

  • Improved UX for Workspace Entry Component by @Henit_Chobisa#9600
  • Workspace options model closes on space by @vedant-jain03
  • Update README.md by @ShalokShalom
  • Several website improvements by @abitrolly, @ShashwatNautiyal and @HatGuy68 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [5]

January 27, 2023

• Events & Conferences

  • We’re almost full for the Paris meet-up on Monday 🇫🇷, don't miss out!
  • Virtual meetup - @Henit_Chobisa#9600 and @Palani#0257 🦸‍♀️ had a fun talk with @Siddhant_k#2347, power of opensource ✊

• Content 🕊️

  • Appwrite + Gitpod: One Click Setup

• Code Contributions

  • Mark auth provider icons as decorative [#15590] - @Kev#9669
  • Remove useless escape in email regex [#15591] - @Kev#9669
  • Improve readability of label in billing settings [#15619] - @Kev#9669
  • Warning alert in workspace delete confirmation model for pending changes [#15741] - @vedant jain#9646
  • Added search loader [#15804] - @Deepayan#6639
  • Feedback widget UX [#15806] - @vedant jain#9646

January 20, 2023

• Building VS Code Extensions - Use Gitpod and Aiven to build VSC extensions easily
• OpenBB - Get started with OpenBB using Gitpod
• Chat GPT & VSCode - Use the Code GPT Extension in Gitpod First Gitpod Community Meetup - Paris Gitpod meetup at the end of January

January 13, 2023

• We welcome one new Community Hero: @RishabKumar#6059! Say hello!
• @Jean-Philippe Baconnais#4575 is organizing our first meet-up in Paris at the end of this month!
• NerdCademy made a video about Development Environment Anywhere on (almost) Any Device
• There is now a guide on using Gitpod for pandas development!
• Jonathan Merlevede wrote a blog post about Make Gitpod Open Sites in the Browser
• @sebi#0346 will be building a VS Code Extension with Gitpod next week on twitch, be sure to keep an eye if you're interested!