Women of Open Source Community Africa; Emerging a Star
summary
A journey from a 2019 microbiology degree to learning Python in March 2020 leads to a first contribution via the first-contributions repo in July 2020 with a tweet that gets 204 likes and winning a domain name in the Women of Open Source Community Africa challenge. Contributions include GNOME onboarding and extensions, Layer5 updating ~30 README updates, and CHAOSS maintaining the badging project. Obstacles: learning git, old hardware, unreliable power and bandwidth. Recognition includes becoming a GitHub Star and 20+ local speaking engagements; hosts monthly GitHub Africa meetups.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Ruths Open Source Journey
- 5:20GNOME Foundation
- 7:05Layer 5 Community
- 9:37CHAOSS Community
- 12:15Challenges
- 16:58Recognitions
- 20:13Future Contributions
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