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5:07 - Program start

11:29 - Olubusayo Amowe: Managing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Azure Devops.
https://twitter.com/AmoweO

35:51 - Sule-balogun Olanrewaju Ganiu: Why you need to know about apis
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suleolanrewaju/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devlarri

57:08 - Muhammad Samu: Contributing to Open Source as a Student
https://www.twitter.com/auwalms

Apologies for the audio on Muhammad's talk!

https://www.meetup.com/GitHub-Africa/events/278451142/

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Hello, hello, everyone uh good good morning, good afternoon, good evening, uh welcome to another african meetup. My name is martin suera, and I also have my co-presenter here who roots you want to introduce yourself yeah.

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Yeah sure hi everyone thanks for uh making out your afternoon or wherever you are yeah thanks for coming to this github africa virtual meet up and I'm rudy kega, and this is my first time co-hosting. So I'm joining.

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And we have a lot for you today so yeah over to you, martin.

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Yeah, so um we are really excited to have you here on our june event, um so we have a lot of agenda for you today. uh So, like I mentioned before, um I know most of you guys have met me if you've not met me before um I work here at get up, I'm the kind executive- and you know I work with developers and customers every day to you, know, leverage a platform and make the most of it.

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I also love cryptocurrency uh and real estate investment, so feel free to follow me on linkedin or twitter uh to uh learn more about me and specifically, um I would like to pass it over to ruth to talk through our gender for today. So ruth.

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Okay sure so I I didn't like do a quick introduction on me, so uh I'm a technical content manager. I basically do technical articles in lots. I write a lot and also I'm also a github star and yeah. That's, I think, that's about me so for today, like I said we have like a lot in store for you. uh um Martin's is going to be taking us through some github news, so uh stay tuned for that. But we have like three amazing speakers um that are going to be sharing a lot with us today.

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So um olu busayo is she's going to be sharing a managing infrastructure as code with um terraform, and you know azure devops. So um if you're in the cloud space, you really find that interesting.

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So also we are going to be having um sulei by logan silva logan will be telling you all you need to know about apis. I know you might have heard like uh what an api. If you do not know what an api is, or you know how to work around apis you're going to like take a whole lot from that session and uh lastly, we are going to be having an amazing speaker, um samu muammi, samu he's going to be talking about.

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You know contributing to open source as a student he's going to be sharing um his story, how he was able to navigate. You know the whole stress of school and contributing to open source, and after um these amazing sessions, we're going to be having like um a networking, um zoom chat um for 30 minutes where you know would be basically chat. Number. It will be a chat now house show where you like.

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Take all the lessons- and you know forget about the names, for you know, pick up the lessons right, so um you feel free to join us. We're going to be sharing a link to that um on the chat. So you can hop in- and I think, there's a um there's uh a shot buckled down here in this sec or during towards the end of the um event, so stay tuned in and enjoy the rest of the session. Okay, martin's, over to you for the github news.

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Yeah, so uh thank you so much ruth um one of the things I uh I discovered that we shipped recently um was, um you know I know most of you would have already heard about our github security products and github advanced security. uh It's free for open source to use, and one of the updates we had earlier this month was that now you can use um the github secret scanning um functionality to scan um your.

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You know your package register credentials so uh definitely go to the gita blog to take a look um at this new.

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Functionality so, and also one other thing I wanted to spotlight- is the the good day project um I'll share links to all of these uh projects uh on on on youtube. For you guys to go, take a look at, um and one more um update um I wanted to share is our change log. So if you, uh the github change log, basically highlights um you know the the new functionality that we've shipped over the past couple of weeks. uh As you can see here, we had a lot of ships.

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um We had over 20 new features in the month of may so um you know there's this one around. You know um having uh upload across github in upload, mpv and mov files on github, and you know so many more enhancements to github actions. uh Github api and uh oh we're gonna talk about api today. So definitely go check out this link to learn more about what we've changed here and also we've made some enhancements to uh github desktop so definitely check this out and then there's also github discussions. Github docs.

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So there's been a lot of work that we've done um this uh this past month uh into june, and uh some enhancement to get up mobile repositories and overall security. So I'll share these three links uh in in on youtube. For you guys to go, take a look at it and see if this any of this functionality will make your life easier- and uh you know just uh continue to do a great work and get up. So thank you so much these are the updates.

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I have for some new ships on github and um I'll pass it over to the first speaker to give his talk.

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Hi everyone how's everyone doing hope everyone is doing fine. My name is busan, I'm a software engineer and I typically write cshop.net java also write javascript, I'm also interested in cloud ops and stuff around devops flood infrastructure cloud security. Today, I'm going to be talking about managing iac with terraform and azure. Devops ice is a common theme that is used nowadays among I.t practitioners, iec, which is known as infrastructure school, is really critical to automate infrastructure.

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It is a critical thing because nowadays, applications can be rolled out multiple times or applications can be provisioned and depreciation as many times as possible in a day depending on requests.

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Now, how was it done in the past before infrastructure school? So in the past? Managing infrastructure was a very hard job, a job that required system administrators to um set up servers, um configure the networking parts set up database do a lot of configuration and a lot of stuff just to get up running on servers.

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It was really stressful because they not only have to do this on one environment, it's possible that those apps need to be deployed on different environments. We have test environments, we have the production environment, so it's a very hard job and, apart from the different environments as well, they had to be like room for maintainers. They had to bring for permission and there had to be room for changing of configuration.

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This was really really tough and it was not a flexible way of of maintaining or using infrastructure. So it there were a lot of challenges with these um minor processes. One of it was research. Provisioning was really really slow because separation is resource. I mean you have to like raise tickets and do a lot of stuff and gymnastics, and even after being able to achieve it, there's going to be like the part of human errors.

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Why commission or why provisioning, while okay straighten, also scalability, was really poor using this and then scale of deployments very limited and direct difficulties with congregation drinks, but thanks to perceptual school and that's why we are talking about it today.

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So was infrastructure as code. In simple terms, I would say infrastructure as code is the managing and provisioning of resources or managing and provisioning of infrastructure using configuration files.

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So we're going to look at some of the advantages using infrastructure as code, so one of the advantages is that infrastructure has code, gives room for consistency and configuration also it gives room for a stable environment, because I'm is with the use of tools and it's automated.

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Another advantage is that permission is automated, so it's more efficient and then it also gives room for better scalability, as opposed to before I see the provisioning was manual and management was manual, maintenance was manual and then obviously like that process is going to be slower and then is going to lead to possibility and elasticity also with infrastructure as code. It speeds up production time, so products are able to get shipped on time as opposed to without ic.

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Imagine where you had to deploy apps with different entities like load, balancers, um multiple web servers and database servers. So before I see it was a really tough one, but we I see stuffer, don't like faster.

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So now we're going to begin at some iec tools.

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um Iec tools are mostly combined together to get stuff up and running for infrastructure, so some iac tools we have, we have terraform, we have ansible, we have chef, we have copper, we have aws cloud formation, so I'm typically going to run through a demo for the in this presentation and in this demo I'm going to be using terraform and azure devops to create a simple sample infrastructure, so I'm going to basically be creating an app service on azure.

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So I put some terms that I'm going to be discussing while doing the demo um first one is pipeline. So basically a pipeline is an end-to-end deployment of a component, so components can be maybe a virtual machine. So basically, typically is the end-to-end deployment of that. Then we have configuration files. So this configuration files I mentioned earlier, while defining and explaining ic that files that contain the specifics of the infrastructure.

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Then we have app service app services, typically just full of services such as I mean load, balancing app monitoring, auto scaling and so on. They know some individuals on terraform commands which are defined here. Terraform units therefore minutes prepares your working directory for other commands. Then we have terraform plan that shows the changes required by a current configuration.

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We also have terraform applied, so whatever applied does for you is it creates or it updates your infrastructure. Also in this demo, moon season is a login. It's a login is typically just to log into azure. So let's go right to the demo now, okay, so for the demo we're going to be using um azure devops.

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I have um written the code already and pushed it here, so I'm just going to go ahead to import this repo into azure devops.

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So I'm importing the report right now and it's been imported. So, let's head to our results, video code to check out our configuration files. So we have a couple of configuration files here in terraform the tf files. So here we look at our main.cfl.

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It specifies all the resources that are going to be needing, so the plan is, we are to create um an app service and so we're going to be specifying all we need to create an app service. So we need a resource group. We need a service plan and we need an app service.

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So for the resource group, we need to specify the name of the resource group, the location as well, and then our service plan. We need to specify the name, the location and under which resource group. I want it to be also our app service. We are specifying the name location under which resource group another which have service plan, so here is basically to define all the resources that are going to be needing.

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Then your providers to this providers file specifies all the providers that you're going to be using so right now for the purpose of this demo, I'm using just azure- and here are the um variables I'll be needing to authenticate my subscription id my tenant id client, id and client secrets.

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So as many providers that you need, you can specify it here as many providers I need for infrastructure can be specified here. Then we have the variables.cf file. So in this file is where you define your variables so the variables I'm going to be needing my app service name, my app service plan.

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I can define um the type of variable, so basically they are going to be strings and then I can also give a description to the variables.

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So that being said, um let's just check out this um file the tfvas file. Basically, this is where you put in your actual values and credentials after you've defined the variables they are going to be needing. So here you can see I've specified that the resource group I'm going to be my first research group.

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They have also specified the group location and then I've specified the service plan name and the service name as well. So here also using azure, you specify your canon idle entire decline secrets and your subscription id, which are going to be using for your authentication.

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So we have been able to successfully import our repo here to convert to our pipeline. To start the.

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So you can create a pipeline with yamaha. You can create it without yammer, so for the purpose of this demo, I'm going to be creating without yammer, so I'll be using the classic editor. So the classic editor gives you, like templates that I can use. I can edit, so I'm selecting this sauce and the sauce is going to be azure apple gees, because this is on azure devops.

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So and then you select the branch that you'll be connecting to, and then you continue.

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So there are different templates that you can select from, but I'm going to start with an empty job so that I'll be able to customize the tags that I've been needing for the job.

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Okay, so you can give your pipeline a name I'm going to give in this github.

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Then come give your agent to specify your agent pool and then specify your agent specification, the selection, so you can select from so after. This is not to add tax to your agent. So the first thing I'm going to be doing is I'm going to add um a terraform installer tag. So there are a couple of tags that I can select from and there's also a market place where you can get some tags that you'll be needing whatever attacks you need.

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So I need a terraform installer.

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So this is my terraform installer here then I'm going to be using tara from zero points, one three zero, so I can say use there from zero point. One three points there.

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And then you specify a version here: terraform just released um from one point: zero. So whatever version that you've been needing, you can specify that here so also, um I'm going to be needing the doterra vs file that I showed you that time, where you specify um your actual value for your variables.

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So you need to download it as a secure file and you have to okay, I shouldn't say stay. um If you are leaving the pipeline page, you have to save so you don't lose all your work then, um head over to library,.

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Okay, so I'm just going to do this and.

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Yeah upload it back so you I went to seek your files browse the.

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Select your device file and then go back to your pipeline.

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Ideally you should have done that before you even start. Your pipeline go in that ways um it works, so I'm going I had to edit my pipeline.

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So I'm not going to um my next stock is going to download secure file.

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So you select the file in this I'm I need app service, dots. Savers then.

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My next stock is going to be a copy file from source to target, so I'm going to be using the copies for stocks.

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And save some settings need my attention.

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So my source folder is.

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This agenda temp.

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Dagger folder is view dots.

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Directory and I'm going to save.

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Okay, so um right above now, the next act that my job has to do is um to run the terraform init command. So you can decide to use the terraform cli use here or you can use the command line.

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So I'm going to be using the command line in this case, so my command line display name um platform in it and my script seems to be terraform in it.

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Okay, so um the next steps is to authenticate azure, so I'm also going to be using my command line times.

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So I can see this easy login then here I write my scripts.

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Okay, so we're done with that and then last task I mean you can decide to data from planners or I'm just going to go ahead and do it there from apply here using my command line.

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So it should display um terraform, apply.

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And then I want you to apply that secured file that I downloaded so terraform.

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Okay, so we're done, then we can check through our template to see what we specified and then, let's save.

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So again, back to our pipeline.

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It says no one's yet so let's go ahead to run.

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So you can monitor it.

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To see our taxes.

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Is installing terraform just copied files?

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It's downloaded secure files is one terraform in it.

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Right now, we're logging into.

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Then my talks is running terror for my play. Right now,.

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So you can check.

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That so you can see, our resource group is creating, it has actually been created. So next up is creating our app service plan, which has been created, and then the last thing is creating our app service.

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Okay, let's stick in a bit every time, but.

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Head back or agents still working and.

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Let's check the logs.

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Now resources have been created.

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Okay yeah, so um we've had this successful pipeline. Viewed.

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Yes, so it says three added resources: let's go. I had to check and validate dax on potado azure, so we created an app service.

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Yeah, so here's our app service.

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App service demo, one, um let's check our resource group, my first resource cookie here it says my first resource group and it's going to show us the yeah, the app service plan and the app service. So that's how you um create um an app service using terraform on azure devops.

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Thank you for listening. um I love to connect with anyone who is interested on linkedin and twitter, so I dropped my twitter handle and how you can reach me on linkedin. Thank you.

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All right, thank you. Thank you so much uh for that uh talk. I really appreciate your. um I really liked how you you showed.

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um That's pretty good, so I'll. Let ruth introduce the new speaker.

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Sure, okay, so uh thank you very much for your talk. um So our next speaker is logan and he's going to be talking about um what you need to know about apis right. um So surely by logan is a laravel developer and also an open source and active, open source contributor and our sure is going to be taking us through apis. So yeah, we're about to see.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello, everyone, hello, everyone, hello, everyone! I'm super excited to be here to join you guys on this talk and um most especially, you shout out to gizab for giving me this opportunity um to talk about api, so this june edition we'll be looking at we'll be looking into why you need to know about api.

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Yes, uh okay, let's get it started, so this is a little bit introduction about myself. As you can see, um I'm more into parking development and mostly malaysia time. I work as a technical writer. I love to share what I know through blogs and talk and as you can get I'm an independent yeah. I work at seamless hr, so this is my picture. So should you run into me on the street feel free to say, hello, hello and my humble self will hi hi. So let's get it started all right.

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So what are we looking at today, we'll be looking at an introduction to apis api lifecycle, experience of good api design, restful apis and methods, and what next? What do we do from here get to find out?

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um So what ap all right when I first started um web development, I had people talk about api's, api jpi and I'm like yo. What are you guys talking about? What do we get to do with api yeah? So at first it was really really wide concept. I was trying to wrap my head around, even though I was doing it yeah.

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I there's some stuff she's doing tech and you keep doing it, but when people come and say api and you're like wow, is that a new language? No, it's, not a new language yeah! That's just how it is so, basically what an api apis simply put it's an interface that provides you with opportunities where you can interact.

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Yes, so maybe I say, oh, I want something from you and you're providing me an opportunity to actually retrieve it. Oh I wanted to do something for me to make a post request and send it to me. I so physically specify how software components should interact, thereby exposing business capabilities and services. So I'm not just the only person who wants to use the api external people want to use the api people from an organization want to use the apis. Whether developers are interested in my apis like it's so huge, it's so huge. So stick around.

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Let's go so what are some of the features of api? What are some of the things like? Oh? That makes you want to see this this particular tool or technology that these guys are building here. um An api and application programming services. So first api um allows you to export some functions of the program service in a managed and secure environment.

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Api is enabled organizations to share information with external developers. Obviously I am working on building a particular stuff that I feel a lot of people outside should benefit from yeah just want to make it an api like a whole lot of people. Thousands and millions of developers around the globe will be able to interact with it. So you can imagine where um we live in a world where there's nothing such as signing with google sign up with microsoft, signing with twitter like just the custom, email and password. How boring would that look like?

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I don't want to have the time to say. Oh, I want to sign up my first name, my last name, my password. My location is who, having gmail, has all this information within microsoft? Azure twitter has it. I can't just plug it into their devices and just get it from them. I know who I am simple and sweet. Okay, so those are some of the features we should look at while talking about um features of api.

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So why apis? Why is it important to us.

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So what apis api basically supports easy access to customers and partners expanding to reach um small channels and devices focusing on services or more flexibility. So these are some of the reasons why we want to see. Oh, let's use an api, so it's there's a lot of feed that comes with it. I want to make. I want to add the steaming um information into my woocommerce. For instance, people should be able to pay for a particular service I'm offering.

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So how do I do that? I can just plug in into maybe strap, maybe float away, maybe facebook and then people can easily pay. I get my money back and everybody's happy. Do you understand? So it's it's really really really really something.

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I get excited about everything actually in my life, so uh classifications of apis, basically apis are classified into three. You have public, you have to be protected. We have it private, so public apis are the apis. Here everybody is using it for source free of charge yeah, so everybody can just go there. Oh, maybe for educational purpose. You will also come it's moving.

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I can take it up. um Twitter api is free. You love the api's, are out there free, I'm playing with mix with stuff with other stuff suite, so protect their api. These are just apis. I can't extend to just selected people, maybe business partner, so I work in a computer, usually with hr products, and maybe a partner is coming to integrate into our services, for instance, why wouldn't I just provide them with this api and see if you, if the id api is currently out.

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These are these things I'm expecting from you, and this is how you should integrate it. Obviously, it's not going to be words of mouse. You need to provide them with a guide if you use the documentation, yeah and you're good to go so meanwhile, we also have the third one, which is the x internal or private api. This is just for maybe a select a few companies, so maybe do with my developers too.

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Okay, what are the lifecycles of an api? So we can't just say we have an api just like that, so it needs to go through a life cycle. First off is: um I need to first create an api, so I need to first try to figure out. Oh, what am I trying to what problem am I trying to solve problem?

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I'm trying to solve would then um help me in how I want to create this api. If I, if I'm saying oh, I want to build, I want to bridge the gap of.

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Maybe users find easy access to maybe create crypto, so it means oh, this api would just be for crystal trading if it's to make maybe payments if it's just payment, maybe to this is to make maybe others or stuff, like maybe educational stuff, maybe github- to get maybe total number of repositories user ads from twitter to know about users on twitter what they are tweeting about, how to be able to um do educational stuff. Basically, so I need to press um wrap my head around that particular ideology of mine and say: oh you.

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I want to create this api, so once I'm done with the api before I see, oh, you guys can come and work with this api. I need to verify this api saves and solve the problem which it originally was intended to solve. So I need to make sure these apis are running and it's fine. I also, I also should be able to make reservation for managing the apis. So if the video I want this api to also attach this particular record, I should be able to obtain um solve that problem.

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Also, I need to make sure this api, at all time, is secured by providing monitoring to it. So what are some of the effects of the good api design?

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So so before I can say, oh, I want to probably an api it should um align with the audience, and the problem I'm trying to solve should be clear on site.

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Okay, this is the program I'm trying to solve, and this is how to go about it, and this is what this api are getting so user from there. He knows. Oh, this is an api I can use to integrate into payment. This is an api I can use to um check currency. This is an api I can use to know the total number of stock in the stock market for the price in the stock market like it should just be as simple as straightforward that so ease of use.

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I don't want to make it too complex for people to understand, also fashion and support, so fashion, support and documentation. I should also be able to provide some documentation. I don't.

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At all time, after bbc sequencing- oh this is how to do it with word of mouth. I have a documentation where I can just modify them, so I say: oh, I built this resource api that solves abc problem. Now this is the link or url to the documentation and um subsequently we'll be going from maybe beta to maybe v1 and v2, and this and the likes. So basically that's what this section is and start around so up next, so we'll be looking at.

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um What's a restful api, the restful apis is an architecture for building resources on the.

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Yeah so we'll also be looking at what are some of the issues or methods that they are called um json javascript objectification performance in which our responses come from um okay. So this is the first of the htc that we'll be looking at. This is get so get is used to retrieve information from the server.

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So I have my url here as example.com. I have the api. I have the question in d1 I have the post to see. Oh, I want to get the post. Then this id is a parameter of co. I want to request for just a post with id of 23, so this would be.

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For me, a screenshot here as a typical example of what I was trying to explain and obviously, if you are curious, this screenshot is from postman, so I usually use the smartphone.

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So this is the web that comes with it. This is the url and this is the id attached to it. So this will be funny 200 the data object and, as you can expect message to notify the users of saying, oh, I am able to achieve this message successfully, so this is the post supposed to use it to post um stuff to the server basically. So in this case now we are trying to create a new post. So I have my api v1 and then I'm trying to um align what this um api will do.

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So immediately user sees it. He knows. Oh, this api is used to create a post like it should be as people like that, I don't want to say um believe it. Meanwhile, it's still in the purpose of creating it. No that's so so wrong. So this comes with the payload of title and then the status of two one launch created the id.

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The title which we passed here and also the message so patch is used to make an update. So I'm trying to make an update to my earlier credit to so I'm trying to say: oh you, this is object, post and id, and what I'm updating with the payload and the status 200 created the id and also the message. Also, your message should um be able to um channel what you're trying to do.

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I don't want to say, while I'm trying to update the message and I'm coming here to say: oh, oh no, you don't want to do that. So we have the delete, so the delete is also there. I'm trying to tell the users. Oh, this pci is strictly for deleting the post. This is the id and this is the focus and then um was illegally pushed successfully so up next, where do we go from here?

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What do we go from all we've been talking about, so we can guess what so we'll be looking into a real life scenario where we are going to be working with a reward api. The reward is here in this case: we use processed payments so for doing that we have the likes of waterways.

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So what do I do when I want to maybe integrate a payment into my online.

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It's my book application into like I just basically want to um integrate an api to make people to receive payments. How do I get it done? I've been looking all over. I don't know how to do it. I don't know yeah. This is so problem. So peter um has this api.

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Yes, you want your apis. You can see by the left-hand side here you have. You want for initializing a transaction you'll find a transaction listing transaction transaction, the charge, authorization check or authorization xp, the whole lot of them. So in this talk, I've been able to provide you with the api documentation you can put through your leisure time and then from it and probably guide you um into integrating this into your platform also, so maybe in the future, find it challenging. You can always reach out.

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So let's get started, so this is how we can um initialize the transaction. So maybe I said oh, I want to add this picture to my app and you're just coming and say: okay, so maybe, when a user clicks on okay, now what should happen? I want to initialize that transaction.

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What are some of the things that need to happen on the background, so in the background we are trying to make sure that okay, I'm attaching necessary information system, expects from me they're expecting me to supply them with an amount with an email, I'm getting an authorization from them. When I sign up to use the api and like support a lot of languages, we have now, we have php and.

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So I'm trying to make a post request to this endpoint of transaction they initialize and what am.

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From them, when this transaction happens, they tell me the authorization has been created. It gives me this. You are going to give me an access code. It gives me the reference to initialize this transaction, so when the user payment falls through, I want to verify. Oh, this image has actually been received by facebook, so they have this endpoint. For me, where I can actually interact and see. Oh, I want to verify these payments.

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Have you received this? Yes, so I can call this api um transaction verified still reference. Reference has been generated for me in the area slides, so it wake up. This is the good point here, so this is reference I'm now going to supply um as parameter here, and once I get this, I get the full details of the amount percentage.

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The currency decision like a whole bunch of details so from getting this, I'm sure that okay, this person actually completed this event for you and then I can now keep track of the and respond to response to them and speak you.

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I receive your payments especially or die the next seven days, especially to happily do that for us, of course, if they just reach out to you, um you successfully purchased this item, so it could be any message of your choice, but you are sure at this point um received your payment, so the next is, um I want to make sure maybe say I want to list all list of transactions I've had. Maybe in the day in the last two days in the last three days, I would use this endpoint. I just wanted to get transactions.

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I also wanted to pay attention to how the apis are being fashioned and structured. So so this gives me um guest transaction, so I'm getting a whole list of transaction and I can also add extra parameters quickly, parameters to see. Oh, I just want to get maybe last five transactions. I want to get the last transaction. I also want to paginate it, so I don't make it too bulky. So if it's unfortunately 50 transactions, it's too condensed, so they provided me sorry if reddit movies um search um possibility of features.

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So basically, um what are some of the things you? um You would you might find helpful for you in your journey to getting to work with apis, so I have an article here for you to read: um there's also an extra resource here on postman. You can also find more on the web and for this statement um use case, which we did this yeah. This is the um yes or what are we doing so I think we've come to the end of this talk. I'm so excited, yes, I'm so excited.

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I know this long way to help people get started using apis, and um this might just be the first step for you, maybe if you're just coming into technology or you've been around for a while and maybe you've heard of it and you're not clear about what exactly it does or what or how excited you use it. So this is just a real scenario where we can get to use it and how beautiful it is for you to create and stuff like that.

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So I'm looking forward to what you're going to be creating in the next couple of weeks, the future anytime, I'm always um excited to see people building great stuff. I can also benefit from yeah, so that's just it so thank you for attending and I'm looking forward to seeing you great stuff in the united future. Thank you very much.

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All right, thank you. Thank you. Silly. I love. I love your energy and uh thanks for the talk on api, yeah yeah and like how you how you we need to like think more as developers about api, is building apis and making sure that you know people can also reuse your apis and uh it's a great way to really show your skills, um especially if you're trying to get started um in the open source world as a developer. Ruth, do you have any uh any thoughts on? uh I.

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Just I just want to comment on this energy. That's just it for me that he brought a lot of energy to the talk.

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That's so that's a trick yeah. I think.

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Yeah- and I learned a lot also from you know his talk and them also.

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Yeah social, thank you so much sulei. um Our next speaker uh is uh mohammad samokiro.

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um He prefers to be known, as I think our ms he's, a software he's a software engineer and he um he's been involved in the web, develop web dev uh community for a long time, and he leads student developer communities in africa and sub-saharan africa for the past six months. uh He reached the google developer relationships uh program and um yoshim is also involved in google developer student clubs uh across africa.

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So in his talk, he'll be talking about how students can contribute to open source and so I'll, let's uh sick. uh Sorry, sam will take it over from here.

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Hi everyone. Thank you. Let me try sharing with you. Oh okay, trying to see uh looks like my camera is faulty, so let's focus on what I'm talking about. Unless and what I'm, what I look like. um Basically, my name is mohammed samu. um In other words, I prefer to be called our lemurs.

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Like martin said earlier, I'm a software engineer and I have been in this field playing around teams for close to a decade, if not more, um but at the moment I am part of the developer relations team at google, supporting sub-saharan africa with the moon, focus on the google developer student clubs program and yeah.

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So basically, what I try to do my day to day job is to try to help students, computer science concept and what is needed in the industry, so basically providing resources, get them to practice, learn about best practices and try to build a good portfolio that they can be able to be employable at the end of their years in school.

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So today's talk is basically around contributing to open source. As a student I have been.

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This is my second year in this team and over the last two years, what I've been doing is trying to talk to students, try to mentor students and try to see how things can be easier for them. So I figured sharing some tips or probably giving an insight into what contributing to open source is, would be like a good idea for this session. So, basically, my talk is targeted at student or beginners who have less experience with open source.

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So in that way, um first thing first um is going to be try to understand what open source is right. uh People have head of open source head of free, software's, head of free and open source, software's and stuff like this. So let's look at what software? What open source is so specifically uh open source this right that meets the open source initiative.

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It's um around right and it means is code that is open to modification and to read so this doesn't necessarily need to. It basically means anything anything that can be copied. You could ease that out. Captain you and copy modify, and even though this depends on the um the creator is.

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So for software, we're talking about soft codes also and anyone can inspect enhanced to do more than what it was initially conceptualized right. uh You possibly building to use a library uh say a date library and what you have available in the open does not fit into exactly what you want.

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Clearly such uh open source libraries that do something of that nature, inspect their modified that and decide to share, or just enhance it for your own personal use right. But it's it's really uh contribute. So this is how we look at it from this software um just to be clear and not free, softwares, the a difference between an open source, a free uh software about that probably later node- is that open source software and not all options also are not freeze, not all the open source.

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So, let's look at why people decide to contribute to open source um different people contribute to some people, try to um a beloved library or something that's.

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Really really used for their day-to-day life as a software engineer or our stuff, like this try to okay, yes, I've been using the time, and I think I figured I could probably help improve software too, or just what it's currently doing so foreign for to other people, not right other people.

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This was because they want to learn about best practices from other contributors in the project. The scheme, through the could be understand how it is as they try to it pulls feedback, and this is why, for disapprove, this um some people call best practices right.

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People try lenny's autumn they've gained years and dc uh or project tend to bring boots. uh I have experience experiencing people, so it's up to mentor. That's led right.

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How about I contribute, or this project or this, and I gain some skills and then um students, then installs in silos or probably tool and are often told to blend and then open source software gives them the collaborate with other people from other places, really really great skills that when you try to get the job because like and to work on, the project doesn't really happen to be dueled by one ruled by money. Many people, one of such criteria in a job this year, seems to be creative skills.

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You must the project will probably have worked on basically building our teams, so this is some of the reasons for the reasons when I look at I as a student decide, so different people contribute for diff. For me, what's beneficial from you, uh this should be a question, uh something that right. um Yes, why should I contribute right? One of those things is to probably gain valuable experience. Like I mentioned earlier right you as a student, you start to gain valuable experience, learn from people who have been doing this for a long time.

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It could be your first time trying to contribute. It could be your second time, but um eventually, whether it's your first or second or third, you definitely will be able to gain experience with working with people. So you gain vulnerable experience. I will count uh for you at the end of your studies, trying to get the job and stuff like this.

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Another thing is: it helps you build a solid portfolio, uh but by solid best practices right uh when you're, trying to when you work on multiple open source um softwares, it's easier to be able to um it's often easier to be able to point out. Yes,.

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As a student, the opportunity minds: are you this right of about.

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Decide to be off when I do that see this as a other experience um as well as gain from the connection you make from contributing, for example, in the case of in your own case as a student, you possibly contribute to a framework or a library and um eventually trying to get a job, and then one of the people who was your reviewer, probably one of the cultural contributors of the project of the uh of the project you contributed previously happens to be part of the recruiting team, or probably one of the technical, interviewers and stuff like this.

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um Knowing that you had experience, you've contributed to open source you've been able to contribute to some on who the person is, will probably give you uh um basically a point and makes things easy for you and then something I'm not sure you can see if you can't be still okay, um see this as an opportu, probably jax works jet recognitions make some money, um but the reason why more that it's more fainter, it's because right, yes, before we've seen different programs that become better at what you're doing and try to offer swag.

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One of those time is the oktoberfest moons developers try to contribute to open source you're expected to make at least four contributions to get some swag kits stickers.

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Something we've been able to enjoy over the past uh few years, thanks to uh deceleration and some of um to have. um As you contribute, I think, if you've been in the rude mention she's a github star, uh it's busy what she has been doing for her contribution and if you look at you probably have heard of stuffs like google developer sort of mvp program recognition programs for you to different things, to contribute to contribute to existing knowledge and stuff.

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Like this, it will still be an opportunity for you to make money right, different internships program, different projects and different ways of trying to some companies. um Some libraries some contribute make money from providing support, though the softwares are free like I mentioned, but they are not there and they are also free. But then people still try to get support to try to troubleshoot. Some problem try to highlight some issues and try to uh close to some real life uh problem that they have, while using the library and the um sometimes come with charges.

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Right so see these, as some of the reasons why you should to open source and then how can I contribute right? um There are different ways to contribute to open source, doesn't necessarily need to be contributing to code right um like for what you're screen. The first thing highlighted is to review dots right, fixed right.

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So even when we do uh or probably some country or some um some programs in some situations, we tend to have your uh just review docs, that from existing libraries, libraries will be used using you're trying to implement the library you're reading the documentation, and you find that there's there's probably some missing gaps that you figured.

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You could be able to help review and provide solutions to see that as an opportunity to as something as simple as fixing type um pictures you're using the elaborate is as something you add something that could be added really important, extended um open issue possible, because if you can skills, if you don't any issues alone able to open, but any questions are suggested fearless trying to the contributors.

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Feature to approach.

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Let's try to organize that um people together ideas, race issues um for some people and I think during the october first project uh the program uh tenure. We see people, organizing oktoberfest events where people contributors come together in one place to try to contribute to different solutions right, even besides this.

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In our own end, for example, in the boot developers student clubs program, we are going to usually organize um a program called the solutions challenge where we bring people to build softwares and probably build solutions, real life problems and try to make them open and make it open and useful to a lot of people.

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So when you organize events that try to help bring people to build, these solutions also counts as contributing to open source, because, basically or possibly, something that will be built in the product in in your event, will probably be useful for uh the overall growth of the ecosystem.

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So another thing you could do is write articles right, uh red articles and open source technologies and try to share as much as you can like. This is not an exhaustive list. You could see different ways, probably speaking at events speaking about uh open source projects and stuff like this to be you contributing to open source. It's just not an exhaustive list, but for you, as a student, see this as an avenue to probably build a solid cv, gain a lot of experience, try to network with people and stuff like this.

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So one question we often get from people who um is: can I make? Can I be paid right? Can I make money contributing to open source um and, like I mentioned earlier, open source software doesn't necessarily need to mean free software, and free software doesn't necessarily need to be open source software. In the case of an open source software you're thinking of okay, can I make money?

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Yes, you can make money right, you could probably build a project and, um and then people that try to use the project decide that okay, they have an issue and they need support from the team that build it. And then you could decide to charge for probably hourly rate, probably based on the issue trying to fix we've. Seen really really great engineers already doing uh this right. We've already seen uh see for projects like you.

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If you see a project like vgs, where the initial contributor, probably the main maintainer, was initially a worker and then decided to probably um leave his job to just focus on open source on his library and try to gain uh some figures from different partners and contributors. People nowadays decide to even provide some funds to keep maintainers uh continue to keep the project alive. So for someone who, whose project heavily depends on your own on your own, open source project will decide to contribute uh some funds.

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It could be probably monthly, hourly and stuff like this to your project, and then you could get that to probably pay for your for um for your living right and beside this. If you're looking at this as a student and you'll be like okay, I cannot start a project on my own that will probably get to this level. There are different internship programs that do this, I'm going to try to share a different screen so that you can see what what I am trying to say.

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The link I shared earlier just a moment just trying to share different uh tab.

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Okay, so this here, um I will I'll probably post the link on the chat I also share with the organizers and then the um the the recorded. The requirement session will probably be probably have this also- and it's also part of my slide. So you can see here- um are some open source internship opportunities, oftentimes open to students right and then some of these are paid. Some are not, for example, you can clearly see summer of dogs.

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This is google summer of dogs. It's a program that helps uh contribute to that expert contributors to contribute to documentations right, try to write like improve on documentation that are available right. uh We also have mission pressing or that's a google summary of privacy.

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Friends, software.

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Everyone, so these are the paid ones and all gave you to give regardless case may be that uh some of these are paid some. Some some recipients are meant to sustain you to ensure that you're focused on trying to contribute to this right, um and then they have your timeline.

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I will share this with you in the in in the jiffy, and we will probably have you uh check them out yeah. So if you have any question or if you want any, if you have anything, you probably want to ask, you could probably uh use the link that was shared.

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My twitter link has been shared with you over here and, um and we can probably take this talk back to twitter and see how we can do this as well as there is a session whose link will be shared in a jiffy right. The link will be very useful for you join us on this zoom call, and we will, if you have any questions you want me to answer, live I'll. Do it just to provide as much feedback as I can so. Thank you very much for spending your time over to you, martin and.

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All right, thank you. uh Can you guys hear me? Thank you. Thank you so much uh mohammed uh samuel, we appreciate your talk. uh Even we apologize for the issues with the audio um he was able to convey uh most of the information.

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So um I would like to thank all the speakers. So far, uh we've had uh olu had uh sulei. We've also had uh uh samu. So thank you. So much all of you guys for uh your talk um and um ruth. You have any thing there to add.

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All right, thank you. Everyone thank you from busayo to um sulei with the energy and also thank you aws for your talk on contributing to open source. I'm sure everybody here learns um something from that, and thank you also to everyone that had attended this uh events. You are like special. They also are special uh persons too. So thank you for making it out and I would be having um a zoom session just attaching this chat. It's it's going to be quite interactive, so uh please do not join in that.

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um I think it's uh um a link has been sent to the charts right, martins.

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Of I wanted to add is, if you want to be a speaker uh on honest meetup in.

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Definitely uh take a look at, I think you should be seeing my screen. Take a look at um submitting your proposals uh here uh with um the the qr code, or you can go to this link here, github.com cfp and uh something to process for a presentation and like um like we just mentioned we logging off and going on zoom right now. If you have any questions for the speakers, bring the questions over to zoom and zoom.

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This is the zoom link and uh we'll see you uh over over zoom, and um we really thankful for joining you guys joining us on on the meetup today. We'll see you guys uh in a month, so thank you ruth. Thank you. Everyone.

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Thank you. Everyone yeah sure see you again.

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