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From YouTube: GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup

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GitHub is excited to announce our April Africa meetup!

Please join us on Tuesday, April 20th at 16.00 WAT / 18.00 EAT!

Hosted by GitHub’s own Brian Douglas, this month we are thrilled to be joined by some exceptional guests who will all be sharing their favorite features and tips!

The month of April we'll be discussing all things Open Source.

Our Speakers:

Namaara Racheal - Software Developer at Ensibuuko
Topic: How to contribute to open source

Santos Venter Chibenga - Systems Engineer, www.livingopensource.africa
Topic: Open Sourcing Africa

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Hello, africa, what is going on good morning, good evening actually good afternoon and um welcome to our github african event, uh I'm so pleased to be here. If you don't know who I am, I'm b-duggy, I'm video game on github bw on twitter, um and that is oh, I almost did it right, then that's where my name is down here, so I am going to jump in real, quick and introduce uh our guests, but before I jump in, I also want to introduce something I've been working on.

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uh So if you follow me on twitter or on github, you know that I'm really in the github actions. So if you take a look at my screen, um if you haven't, if you aren't aware, I have a site called uh b, dougie live uh b. Doug live is kind of like my digital garden, to sort of showcase all the stuff. I'm working on also my live streams, but the one thing I've been working on recently is actually organizing whenever I go live on stream notifications in the discord and the way I've done.

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That is, I use a github action, but real quick. I just want to mention this: entire site is backed by a github repo. So if you see organizing uh streaming uh well, please mind the uh the ui it's uh sort of not styled properly, but I got this working, that's powered by a github issue. So all that content that you see that's unstyled. It actually has a github issue if you're interested in learning more about that, I do have some contact uh content on my dev 2 about how I made this.

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um But I wanted to also talk about how I use github projects and github actions to notify folks on discord. So uh in this repo I've got a project board. uh Also just want to point out this github issue right here, issue number 89: you could actually go check this out and read as well, but I'll give you the cliff notes. So I have a schedule. It's called uh schedule.

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It's a github project, uh and here you can see all the stuff I'm sort of working on all the projects I'm actively working on, and you can see here. I've got a column called streaming. So anything that's in this column. It actually gets notified to my discord and um I'll show you exactly what that looks like too as well.

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So going back to the issue I'll scroll down, you can see here uh definitely check out the my discord if you want to find the link, but it actually prints a notification here uh and the way this works is this github action file. So there's a lot of stuff, you can do with github actions if you are not familiar with github actions, definitely check out the github documentation.

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Also check out my youtube channel same name b dougie. um You can check it out. I've do like some introduction introductory content about github actions as well as in the docs. We do have guides and links directly there. I do encourage you to check it out. I don't go line by line about how this works, but I will just point out that there's a cron job that goes off every tuesday and fridays uh morning and I'm running a script in javascript and then what it does.

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It actually uses another github action, which is called discord, well action discord, and then it prints out this message using this. This title as well so um follow me on twitter. Follow me on dev2 I'll, do a whole blog post about this, but I want to share some of my learnings I've done just in the past week about github actions and looking forward to hearing your feedback.

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So with that I'm going to go ahead and intro our new guest. I always love talking to folks from africa and learning from them. We have our first speaker, which is namara rachel.

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Sorry we have a namara, rachel and she's coming from uganda. uh She is a software engineer for that at insuboco, uh which maybe I've said that uh correctly, you could correct me uh when we get started.

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Nice. Try um but yeah you're gonna be talking.

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uh Contributing to open source, so I'm looking forward to learning about this, so please take it away.

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Thank you so much um hi everyone. Thank you for joining us on this show.

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My name is namara rachel. I'm a software dropout in singapore, so today I'll be sharing on how to contribute to open source yeah. So.

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Yeah, these are my names rachel. I knew myself to.

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Advocate I must have to advocate for and women women ambassador, so today I'll be sharing on how to contribute to open source so yeah, let's dive in so yeah before we discuss on how to how to contribute to open source.

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Why should we contribute to open sources? There are so many reasons why we should all contribute to open source. I listed few reasons, but there are more reasons as to why we should all contribute to open source yeah. One. That's there to share can be a powerful motivator.

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It gives you a great start, especially when you're beginning when you're starting out your career as a software dropper or a programmer. It's really good to to be open to those open source projects you for starters, you don't have to to to fix code or to write a feature or to to do anything. You can start by maybe fix the documentation or updating the readme. That's a really good start for you to to to to go ahead. Then it builds your resume.

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So by building your resume I mean we are in kind of era where the recruiters don't have to come to to you to ask for your cv or what your report was at school or anything. You just have to come to your github check your repo check, your history, and you know: that's a good start for them, so you contributing to open source is really a good.

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Is really a good practice for you, because it's going to build your your resume. It's going to build your career, it's going to do to give your career some sense, so I really encourage everyone to to to who, especially those who are still looking for jobs who are aspiring to get like in tech industry to contribute to open source yeah, and it gives you practice with git and github, which is a very bold skill and sharpens your programming skills.

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So there's a difference between github and the git, so github, that is an open source.

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That is an open source where everything is stored, like the ui that github ui and then the git is the command line. The version control command line. Where you can contribute your code, you can push your code and do everything in a command line, and then it helps you build relationships is in the open source community uh yeah I mean, uh if you're working on a project with different kind of people, they say different people in diaspora.

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It gives you the confidence and you can build a very good relationship with people around the world in the tech industry. So that's a really big deal yeah and it. It also feels good to give back to the project that you use. For example, you can right now start.

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So what has been before we dive into why we should call open source what are the benefits of going to open source? It gives meaning to your like how I say it's going to build your resume you're going to interact with so many people you're going to learn from so many people and people are going to learn from you. So it's a win-win situation, so I really encourage everyone to contribute to open source yeah and then learn from the best in the industry.

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There are so many brilliant minds out there and you want to be part of this community, so you by contributing and sharing your knowledge. This is one way of you can learn from people. People can learn from you yeah and then it builds your career. We talked about this and there are some source projects that are paid for.

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These are part of them. Those projects have been.

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Fans who are starting out in terms who are like new beginners in this industry, then I've also been part of authority, and I highly recommend it. You people, you should try it out. You get paid and you'll be part of one of amazing projects around then rules, girls, summer of code.

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Yeah so uh before you start contributing to open source, there are few skills that are needed so right now we are going to discuss one of the reasons. One of the skills that I needed for you to contribute to open source.

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One is good knowledge and understanding of at least one programming language. You don't have to to know every language on earth for you to contribute to open source. You can only be knowing let's say, html or css.

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That's enough for you to start and like how I'm saying you don't even have to confuse you as in terms of code, you can just update the documentation or update that read me that sorry would start, but at least you have to have some understanding, some understanding or like queer knowledge of which language you're contributing to and then you should also have ability to read code and interpret code, assume someone came and wrote code and that person left work or he's no longer part of that project.

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Then you can like, after five years, you should be able to read that code and interpret what's going on. So that's what we mean by ability to read code, especially written by someone else, and then our ability to identify and solve problems, because um we are all here to solve problems. So before you even tap into like solving the problem, you must first identify or know how to tell like you know what this is not right.

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Then we provide a solution to it so because um I think the most important technical skills that you need for for you to start contributing to open source. Otherwise your cover your frame yeah. So right now, let's dive in to what it takes for you to contribute to open source. We are going to go through step-by-step guide on how to contribute to open source.

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um We are going to have hands-on on how to contribute so bear with me. It's not going to take long and yeah. Let's enjoy this.

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So step one you have to sign into github or if you don't have an account signing, it means you. You already have an account and you have to sign in or if you don't have an account, you can create an account with github, it's absolutely free and you don't have to pay anything.

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So let me see if I can go to my to my github and show you how to start from scratch on how to create to create an account on.

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Okay, so uh I think I'm just going to take you through on how to to go through this process. I don't have to show you like hands-on, probably not going to do that, the hands-on practice on how to do it. So the first step is for you to sign up or create an account with github and then the second part is, after you've created your github account on the right corner upper right corner you're, going to see a button that says folk.

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Then you can tap on that button. So you're tapping with that button.

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um You'll be creating a copy of that project into your own github. So let's say it's github account. Maybe it has like different repositories. Let's say maybe about five repositories on a github account. uh One of the accounts, maybe is github website you're going to tap on that very specific repository. You want to folk and copy that url.

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So this creates a repository on your own github account. I wish there was a way I can demonstrate you by showing you through my github.

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Anyways, so I think that's the process, so you tap on that fork or the right upper corner, then that copies the project repository on your account, then, after that you, after copying that you got your terminal, I don't know what to be using that, but you got your terminal and you have to crown that fork.

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So at this point you have to use git cone. Then you, you testing, that you are aware of that fork. The one you downloaded from the.

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Github yeah: this is going to take like 2-3 minutes for the fork to be downloaded into your local machine after being downloaded to your local.

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Machine the next step is to to go into that directory. That is very ripple, so it really depends where you've downloaded your ripple, so you can just use like maybe cd to that very directory, or to that very it really depends where you, your your repo, is residing. So you can use this to navigate to that ripple.

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Then the next step before you do anything you have to check if whatever you ground on your local machine and whatever you on your github, the upstream is, is really the same thing. So you can use the gate to remote minus v to to check the other current rewards.

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And if you don't see it, you can just use git remote, add origin, then the url of that folder, the one you've copied that you are, that folk right.

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So, after that, the next step is, after downloading, that we are going to add the so remember we already have the github account the folk repo on on your account, and then we have the one we crowned on our local machine. So right now we are trying to think that to to find a way making that to communicate to each other or yeah. So you can use this command, get remote.

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Add up stream when you add that url for you to to sync that too, to make the one you have on your local machine and the one upstream to to be able to communicate yeah, then the next step will be before you actually write any code. You have uh many projects, they have that read me they have the readme, so you have to read that you have to go through the readme to see how you can set up their projects on your local machine.

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So before you can actually do that, you can, before you do anything before you create a branch before you start on working or writing any code for updating in documentation, you should do a gate, pull to pull the whatever is up online to your local machine, because sometimes you may find there's some that tesco that was pushed and you have to to have eternal machine for you to start contributing.

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So it's really a very good practice for you to to pull the latest code up there for you to match your local machine, the one you have on your local repository before you do anything. So this is the command that can help you I get for origin upstream or you can use the gate fetch either way to work out.

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Yeah so after putting the latest changes now you can create a branch. You can create a branch, it's really a good practice. You know because most of repositories or projects they have their main branch. Let's say: maybe they use master branch or the dev brand or they they can call it anything.

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That's why I said it's really important for you to first read the readme for you to know what what they are using or how you can set it in your your machine, but that's where you can find out actually, which branch are they using as their main? But right now we are going to use the master branch as our main in this demo.

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For you to check out of that master branch, it's really a good practice for you to create a a separate branch so that maybe your branch can be merged into master after you've written your code. If you've contributed anything you, it's really a good practice for you to do it on a very separate branch for you not to mess up anything or for for the person who is going to match.

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You could know what's going on in on your branch, because it can be really very hard for someone to if you're, using the main brand, let's say main branch or master branch for someone to tell the difference like what you contributed or what you added in your code. So you can use this command, git, checkout, minus a then a branch name. In this case we you're automatically taking out of the the main branch assume. Here we are using the master branch you automatically checking out of the master branch, and then you went to your brand.

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So, in this case, I will assume my branch will be like maybe rachel github butcher, even makeup, so this command will automatically take you out of master branch and take you into your own, very brand or, if you're, not sure which branch you're on you can use git brand to check other branches. You are on you'll, be able to see exactly which branch you're working on yeah.

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So after creating a new branch.

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Yeah this is where the party starts. This is how you can start contributing. So you can go use your favorite code editor. It could be vs code, it could be some brand, it could be anything now. You start contributing. You start writing code. You start writing code and, after that, after writing, code.

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You should be able to commit your changes. You should be able to commit your changes, so you can use the git ad to add all your commit to cut to add all your changes I wish I wish I can go to my my github and I show you how to do this, but turns out. I can't so so at this point, you'll be able to commit oh yeah.

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Okay, at this point, you'll be able to add all your commits to add all your changes and then the next step is to commit whatever you added, so you can use the git commit minus m. Then you can write. This is actually the message of what you are working on. If you are updating the ui, you can say updating, maybe the header or the footer or, if you're working on back end, you can add anything, maybe updating whatever whatever you are working on.

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So this message should be very descriptive and now from what you are actually working on. Actually what you are working on so like someone who is reviewing your code to be able to tell at least you're working on this or this. So this.

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Be very descriptive of what you're working on if you had, if you're, adding a header, maybe to a website, it should be like this adds a header to whatever you're working on yeah.

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Then the next step is for you to push your changes so.

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At this point, you've already added your changes, everything so you can use the gate, push minus your origin, then your branch name we talked about. Maybe my branch name would be like rachel github meetup. That would be my branch. You can use this command to push your changes.

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um I would say you should resist this minus you for you, for if it is the first time you're pushing the changes on that branch and after that you can always use. Maybe a git push. If anything goes wrong, you can. You can force it, but I wouldn't recommend you to use that git push first, it's always good for you to use the git push for you to push your changes to the upstream to the remote branch.

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So at this point, you'll be able to create your pull request. So how you create your pull request: you're, going to go to your after pushing your changes. You're going to go to your github account you'll, be able to see.

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Your latest push changes pop up. Then you can use that link to create a pull request.

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You can be able to use.

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Yeah, you can create your request from your github account and then from there you tag. Maybe someone is going to review your code or someone. You are working on with this project to review your code, so you'll be able to get maybe feedback on what changes you need to make or whatever. So you can come back to your your local. Your local repository make the changes that were requested and then you have to just get an and push all the changes.

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Yeah yeah. This is what I mean. You can add more comments, you you all your pull requests and you you should be able to to specify whatever you're asking when if it was maybe the requested changes or if you able to describe whatever you're working. Well, that's okay, depending on what you want yeah and there will be some maybe discussion. This is where the discussions be going on you and the person who is reviewing your code and if all goes well, your code will be able to be married to the main branch.

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It could be the master branch it could be that they could be whatever they named it. But at this point, if everything is fine, you, your code will be able to be merged to their main branch and that's it you've you've made it you've, been able to make your first full request or to make your contribution.

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Yeah, so that's it from me yeah. If anyone has any question you can ask.

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Excellent namara, thank you very much for that uh that walkthrough, for contributing to open source, pretty insightful, stuff uh and folks again starts of creating a github account and finding projects that you like uh so start. There fork it and uh get involved so tomorrow. Thank you very much. uh I'm going to introduce our next guest and our next guest is santo. Santo's, going to talk also about open source sento is a red red hat, certified. Actually red hat and linux. Certified professional um and that's double whammy.

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There actually they're, not whammies, it's the opposite of whammies, but anyway open source enthusiasts, as well as a zambian who initiated the linux community, um so sorry initiated the zambian linux community as well. uh So I am super excited to learn all his insight about open source and also the linux community as well so santa. Why don't you take it away and teach us about more open source in.

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Okay um good evening, everyone uh from uh whatever part, whichever part of the world that you're joining us uh for the meet up. uh So uh today's topic, it's all about uh uh it, goes with the theme of things or pencils and uh from my end, I've got a quick presentation that I'm looking forward to share with everyone that has joined us with this meetup and I hope you enjoy it and uh well, let's get started to read and uh if you've got any concerns, I think they'll come at the end of the presentation.

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So uh let me just quickly share a presentation uh over a few things that I've prepared on my end.

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Okay, just trying to do a quick share of the presentation.

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Okay, yeah so um well uh with the theme or things or pencils. um I've got this. I've got a few slides, um which I do hope that uh we'll give a quick, a quick highlight of our things about open source and uh my name, uh santos, uh vintage. uh I've got a quick definition here that talks about offenses and what it is all about.

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um The definition that I did here on this slide is given by bigcommerce.com, so you can check out uh basically on what it's all about open source. uh If you do need to understand it or know more about it, a quick introduction about me. My name is santos vento schwenger from zambia, and uh personally I am. I am an ict consultant and I will focus more on open source solutions um professionally. I am a red hat, a linux foundation and vmware certified profession.

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Apart from that also, I am the co-founder of living my apprentices, a project that is culinary operating in africa, with the mission that, uh to with the mission to promote the use of offenses and uh yeah in most african countries.

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So uh a quick one. uh Why do we need open source in africa? um Well, uh we uh from uh from what I've shared here on the slide, uh basically looking at how open source is growing or largely on what oppressors is uh giving out.

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um Well, we do understand that africa has got a couple of challenges in terms of financial capabilities and uh yes with those uh uh with those challenges that africa faces, we believe that open source is uh is uh uh sorry. I think I need to cool down. I feel I'm a bit on the rice.

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Can I begin again at bryan.

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You're good santos uh feel free to take it easy, you're doing great uh reset as usual. You know it's, uh it's always a challenge. Okay, sure. Thank you.

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Okay, so uh uh my name is the santos, uh uh so uh with the theme of things open source and I think, uh with this team, I've got a quick presentation that I feel I'll share with every participant that has gender for this meetup from whichever part of the world that you're joining us from. So as I just quickly prepare my presentation uh just bear with me.

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Let me just try to do that.

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um I hope everyone you're able to say uh what I'm presenting uh on your end. uh So uh basically, what is all about open source? um We've got a quick definition here. uh What is all about open source and uh yeah? If you're looking for that, I I got a definition from bigcommerce.com.

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You should be able to find uh the definition of offenses from their website. So um a quick introduction about myself. I am santos vintage wenger from zambia, um culinary I am an ict consultant. um I basically focus more on open source solutions, looking at the gap that we do have here in my country, as well as at large in africa professionally, uh I am a redhead certified as well as linux foundation and the vmware certified profession uh yeah.

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um Apart from that, uh one of the projects that uh uh uh I am a co-founder is the living open source project which is calendar operating in most african countries. I think, as the the presentation goes on, I will be able to share a few countries where currency we are operating in.

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So uh with the theme, all things offenses. uh Why do we need open source in africa?

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uh We, uh I think from others that uh currently joined the meeting and the meet up who come from uh who coming from africa. uh We do understand that uh we've got a couple of challenges in africa. Africa faces huge financial buildings uh in its ability to procure uh the licensed commercial products with the which do not promote local skills development as proprietary products are closed and they are used as and I've, given a few reasons why we do need open source in africa. Some of the challenges.

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uh Some of the reason, is uh why we need open source in africa with uh it cause a lower I.t acquisition and operational cost to users, uh encourage innovation in the tech. Local ecosystems allows for technology advancement in the local industry. uh Well, I think, with the reasons that I've given, uh which uh just a few of them, I can outline a lot of them, but a few of them that I feel, uh would capture your attention, and these are some of them and uh well.

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Why do we have uh these challenges? Okay, based on the above reasons that I've given, uh which we feel if we went offenses in africa, uh would be addressed um below. I do feel that these are some of the factors that are affecting offenses in africa, so I I can talk of volunteerism. uh To give an example: um it's not a very easy in africa to work with people, uh let's say uh in line with open source uh that would willingly volunteer to do something uh which I feel is one of the challenges uh why?

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I will feel that uh why I feel open sources, uh not really uh why it's one of the challenges why I feel uh the adoption of open source in africa has been a bit slow, uh low awareness of what opens us uh use, and the case uh is one of also reason. That is one of the factors that is affecting the slow adoption of our pensions.

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So, yes, um to share with you uh why? What? What do I mean when I say law awareness, low awareness is a case whereby um people are in dirty industry. I would give an example here, like locally here in the country where I reside, which is zambia. Very few uh tech people know about open source, uh the majority. Yes, the people do know that there is they've heard about open source, but very few.

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If you go around in the iit industry or in the tech industry know what it really opens us is, and I do feel if we somehow uh um find ways to to to make sure that awareness is brought out and uh shared, maybe often through different means, I think, would really help also uh uh uh with I would really help to to with adoption of opinions in the industry or within africa when they're looking in an existing contract. So the other uh issue that is affecting the adoption is uh the vendor lock-in on existing contracts.

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So what it is is uh what I mean here basically, is that um you find that uh companies uh that are that provide their I.t services. Let's say worldly known companies, uh you find that when they come to africa uh well uh they will give sort of a license uh licensed services and then well, customers organizations will be locked into those contracts. I will be locked to use those uh licenses as a result when it is uh as a result.

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When this organization in the corporate in uh side wants to move in or wants to migrate to open source-based solutions, they will be unable to do so because they are look that sort of the contractors are locking them in a lack of collaboration and energy sharing. um This is one of the challenges that I I have come across and I encountered uh uh well in in line to do with open source in africa.

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Yeah uh well, sharing of knowledge is not something that is common on your friend. You know you you easily find around. uh People want to keep the knowledge to themselves, uh also just collaboration. uh It's not easy to collaborate when you are working on an open source project. Very few people are willing to come on board and see that project work out. So I do feel if we collaborated more as well as be open to share knowledge.

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I think that would really help out uh any adopting in a adoption of open source uh in africa and then uh coordination and promoting local technological skills uh yeah. I think this is one of the reason as well and then uh the bigger one. Now, the big reason, I think, is lack of funding to open source initiatives.

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So uh yes, uh well many organizations, let's say in africa, don't feel they need to support up interest well for a couple of reasons. uh Well, I think from the above given ones is that because they uh they are not aware of what opinions really can do, or they don't really know what what open sources basically doing or currently uh contributing to to that industry.

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So when it comes to funding uh organizations, uh feel it and necessary to fund. It is the initiatives that are pushing for the open source agenda within africa as they feel like. Maybe it's just a waste of resources, and things like that, so I do feel if um uh organizations uh we are more open to up to support or fund these promising open source initiatives within africa.

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I think this would really make a open source thrive as well as just grow within the continent, going to the next slide I'll talk about uh what we are doing to make a difference here in zambia, as well as uh in africa at large, um so something that I would like to share with everyone that is attending the meetup or the github meetup. Today, uh yes, uh myself, or what?

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um What difference am I making or basically uh about myself um from where back uh I've been a an open source enthusiast, as well as just passionate and I've been wanting to see something be done about uh pensions within my country, as well as uh uh in africa clubs.

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So uh with those ambitions, uh I found it with a few other uh colleagues. uh The first uh uh offensive community uh in zambia, uh which is now is called the living opponents, was africa. um So uh what is all about open source or what is all about living with pencils? uh Living weapons is an approach. It's a non-profit organization with the mission to stimulate the growth of local economy economies by enabling people to develop themselves as opponents as professionals, as well as the use of it.

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uh So, uh uh just to talk more about this uh project, uh basically what we're doing as uh as a as an open source project. um We do organize events uh in countries uh where we feel that uh we need to share uh our open source knowledge, as well as our open source skills.

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uh We organize an event there uh participants, uh we we do everything that is needed uh just to have that event take place in that country, and then uh we we work with the local people. Then uh we train people in open source software uh with uh in all directions. We talk of our systems administration.

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We talk over programming, we talk over uh anything that has to do with open source. Basically everything that we feel is necessary and is pushing the agenda of growing offenses in africa.

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So uh a couple of events that we've uh previously had or I'll talk of the first one that was uh done in zambia and that was in 2010 uh the event itself at that participants of 200 plus, which was sort of. uh I worked on that project and basically I organized it. So it was sort of an interesting project to see uh work out uh well, looking at how people are attended it, as well as the the feedback that we got.

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It was so interesting and uh we could see uh from that event that people were hungry to learn and know about our pinterest. uh We did a couple of events as well. uh A follow-up follow-up events uh that took place was in july 2019. uh We had the hundred-plus participants and then we went to kenya as well, where we had 120 plus as well.

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We went to king again for a second round event, then in malawi, uh where we had the 300 plus attendees from all uh different uh industries uh of iit, as well as uh uh anyway, uh one of the event that is coming up this year.

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It's the utopia, linux event which we are currently working on, and we've uh uh organized already everything and just waiting for for the dates uh which will be taking place in may 2021 a couple of other projects that we're looking forward to to host uh it's in botswana as well as rwanda.

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I hope the pandemic issue allows us, but we've had uh huge list points as well as uh uh other countries that have invited us to host these events and looking at how valuable they are and how they are helping out to grow uh open source within these countries.

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So we are looking forward to to to to host these events, as well as to other countries that have invited us to to go there. I hope uh all things will allow us.

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So what are some of the activities that we do call out as a laws uh which we feel are helping us or will continue helping us to grow open to within africa? uh What we do currently we do host online meetups or online events. So, basically, in these online events we talk about open source. We teach people uh different areas of writing. We talk about how you can utilize open source uh uh uh solutions or softwares that are varied about their uh programmers.

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uh They have to present. If you assist in this person, if you are or different areas of offenses, we do host also monthly meetups, both the physical as well as online, so in countries of uh where we are currently operating. Let's say in zambia or malawi, uh what we do locally would quickly host a new meet up where we meet with a tech people. We talk about anything to do with open source and then uh yeah.

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If it's online, where people are able to to meet, uh we go online. uh We do host those meetups we're talking about physical and online event. uh So currently, as previously stated, a physical event is one of the things that we've been doing and consistently doing in every each year. That comes and uh yeah uh hope that uh uh well, okay, going down to the uh I've, been sharing a list of the countries that kalantra we are working on.

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We are doing our operations in uh so it's to do with malawi, zambia, rwanda, ethopia and a few other countries that haven't included here, which are sort of a potential for us to to to protect our community activities.

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uh This is I'm sharing this image. It's one of the the first event that we had in zambia. uh Yes, uh we've got. uh We had a good number of participants and people were running about open source, so this was at the university of zambia in irusaka.

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uh This was in kenya. uh This was the uh universe of nailobi, uh where we had a good event as well, where we shared our journey about open source and uh yes uh yeah. Then uh this was in zambia where uh event participants were taking uh uh we're preparing to take in uh actually a lineup certification, which is linux, foundation, certified systems admin.

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So here they were just uh waiting for a few instructions and then yeah afterwards.

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This was in malawi, uh yes, where we also had a good linux event which helped us to share our knowledge uh based on open source, as well as just um evangelism in open source.

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uh This is uh arena, one of a volunteer who came from uk just to share.

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Felt that she needed to to share the how the offense was. uh She thought she needed to share her experience with open source, so she volunteered to come to malawi, actually to teach for free, yeah and yeah. It was an interesting to have this was also in malawi.

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This is me when I was doing a lecture on linux in malawi. I think yeah. uh Well, I think this is all I. This is all what I wanted to share with every participant, and uh I hope uh this was an interesting presentation and uh hope we we meet again how to contact me. uh That's my email uh as well as on linkedin, that's my username.

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Then we've got a website where, if you feel like you need to check about the update over your upcoming events and then anything else or get in touch with me or anyone else within the people that are working on the project, you can reach me by the email you can go to the website and every information is provided there.

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If you do have any question- and I feel free to ask me or otherwise it's time for the questions now.

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Thank you very much for the presentation um and we actually are gonna have an after chat too as well and a zoom. So uh folks, if you have questions for santo as well as for uh namara, uh definitely check out down here, we have a github discussion uh for your folks to sorry. We have a discussion, a zoom link that we can. You can jump in there and we'll have a conversation uh thanks. Everybody thanks for both our speakers, namara and santos, um for sharing your experiences.

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Hope folks that you all sort of got lots of value from this as santos said, and definitely hit like and subscribe here on youtube, so that way, you'll get notified for future events as well as be sure you're in the github africa meetup on meetup.com as well. So thank you all for for joining us and we'll see you in the.

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