Django Without Borders: A 10-Year Journey of Open... with Ngazetungue Muheue
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Ten years of building Django and Python communities in Namibia focuses on concrete outcomes: 5,000+ participants and 50% women, education day for high‑school learners and Python scholars, and local initiatives spun out as societies and websites. A working conservation project uses a wildlife‑tracking database and mobile app to log rangers, livestock losses, and poaching incidents, and most projects live in open‑source GitHub repos (Django Namibia, Python Namibia) for contribution and documentation.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Building Python Namibia
- 3:55Conference impact and inclusivity
- 6:43Education Day inspiring developers
- 8:10Jungle Day expanding participation
- 9:37Wildlife tracking project
- 14:23Global contributions to local projects
- 15:51Sustaining community and docs
- 16:33Q&A contributing to open source
- 19:45Q&A cultural engagement
- 20:06Q&A student excitement
- 22:53Q&A sustaining student momentum
- 26:09Closing remarks
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