Who Builds the Tools? Creating Pathways for Women in Open Sourc...
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Open-source energy modelling shows a gender and capacity gap, so a new mentorship program builds structured pathways for African women to contribute to real tools like PyPSA and data workflows, with prepared repos and maintainer-backed code reviews. The curriculum is a 20–24 week program with explorer, builder and engineering tracks, an applied capstone on real African datasets, and a targeted 20–30 mentee cohort paired one-to-one with mentors to produce PRs and deploy usable model components.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:03Open source energy tools impact
- 3:09Energy access and gender gaps
- 5:17Why energy system modeling matters
- 6:20Video: Engineer’s perspective
- 8:47Introducing mentorship program
- 10:10Mentorship program structure
- 11:33Why this is doable
- 16:10Program timeline and scaling
- 17:14How you can support
- 19:18Q&A on cohort size
- 20:05Q&A on global participation
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