Building a Thriving / Healthy OSS Ecosystem in Africa; Lessons Learnt
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Organization launches Open Source Community Africa in 2018 and runs a Discord platform, an Open Source Challenge with 200+ participants, GSoC prep webinars, and OscarFest conferences (2020, 2022) that draw 2,000+ attendees; growth metrics show 47 chapters across 8 countries, 58 community advocates, 3,000+ members, a 40% rise in female participation and ~90% of those women making first contributions to projects like Jenkins and Django, plus a 75% conversion of contributors into maintainers and partnerships with Propel, Google, GitHub, AWS and Meta. Discord platform Open Source Challenge OscarFest
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12Meet Ada
- 1:57Open Source Community Africa
- 4:10Focus Areas
- 6:46Community
- 9:07Programs Events
- 13:24Oscar Fest
- 16:03Oscar Fest 2022
- 17:54Partnerships
- 21:30Growth
- 25:12Currently
- 26:51Lessons Learned
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