Hi Welcome to first Asia 2021 and I'm here to talk about the open source growth and open source community Africa Before I start I would love to do a little bit of introduction about myself awesome So my name is Samson Daddy or you can call me Samson I am the co-founder for the open source community Africa Which is a project that I co-founded with a friend sometime around 2018 To you know kind of helped shape the growth and you know help enable the the community when it comes to open source I also serve as a board for open source collective Which is an amazing project that I love because they also enable communities like mine to better You know raise money to sustain my the project And when it comes to open source stuff, I am a contributor for sugar labs I previously was a board member for the project, but right now I'm more focused as a contributor on the project making sure that you know You know building tools for education is a priority for me. So it's a project. I'm super excited about Lastly, I am part of this program amazing program from GitHub called the GitHub star and you know It enabled me to you know interact better interact with the community at lunch to see how you know We could help when it comes to you know sustainability particularly in communities like mine. So I'm it's pretty amazing that I'm part of the program So, you know, if we want to talk about open source There's one country that you know, we should you know, definitely look out for and not because I'm from Nigeria But the fact that there's numbers that sort of back, you know, the country So as you can see here, this is the latest report from GitHub showing the fastest growing countries on the platform So Nigeria happens to be, you know, the fastest growing country when it comes to, you know You know numbers of project and you know when it when it comes to like how expanding, you know and contributors are coming particularly in the open source space Now, why is this number growing or what does this number represent or what what is bringing this energy from a continent like Africa? simple Like I said or as this slide is showing about 60% at youth and these are my friends We took this photo. Well, I'm not dead anyways. So these are my friends. They they were they're actually standing at the The first of all which we which I'm going to talk about later on It just shows how young the the open source community space in Africa looks like This is the typical contributor behind every project that you know And I can't talk about open source in Africa without talking about the the tagline This is something that my my friends over at open source community Africa We keep saying The future is open. Now, what does that mean? In order for us to to make sure that we we have a system that is that is there to kind of support and to Also help in collaboration This is the structure that I I I am my friends over at the open source community Africa They were currently doing when it comes to helping to define to shape and to help grow, you know, the ecosystem So how are we building? We started as as as, you know, right now the current version anyways We we we currently working with developers designers and also technical writers And the reason why we're trying to do more stuff away from, you know, just focus on developers Is the fact that, you know, when it comes to open source, there's not just the diversity of people But also the diversity of skill set. So it's very important for us, you know, we at oscar to make sure that we have Great supporting system for even, you know, non coders and, you know, people that do things around other technical scale So if you look at this slide, you see that um at oscar, which is obviously at the top It's kind of driven in two ways. There's the community side of things and then there's the project side of things And between the community side of things We have a system in place. I would say more of a program that is called the chapter program Now this chapter program enable oscar, which is the open source community Africa To go into local cities and to be able to help to support what is required in the local cities So it's like your typical developers program like for example One of the most popular developers program in the world is the google developers program So it's like the typical gdg that you know that is around your city But this is more in line with oscar and more in line with the open source Vision so we use this chapter program as a way for us to Go into different cities across Africa and then we identify people and also great communities that want to do more in open source And secondly the festival we initially did the first one in 2020 We're still working on seeing the possibility of doing one this year but the festival aim is to kind of Create an annual or maybe twice a year and program that sort of Celebrate and you know create a system where people can network like your typical summits like or in this case Like first Asia, right? So, you know, it's it's a it's a system in place where we we have a way for people to come in and to explore and to share Things that we're working on So it's one of the amazing things for us over, you know as part of our community program Now when it comes to project projects is a little bit tricky because internally we don't have a lot of project But for us to be able to make sure that we Like we said, you know building a next billion creators, which is a is a team for us internally at oscar We want to bring things into two different parts so first advocacy and second contributions or contributors Now advocacy is the opportunity for us to work with people that identify as open tourist advocate to help them to Give them a system in place Then enable them to go out and to publicly talk about open tourists. So just typically what I'm doing right now I'm serving as an advocate i'm a civil oscar at force asia So that's what a typical advocate in in the open source community african space does And now there's the contribution side of things which is kind of like the same thing anyways, but just different wording Now we work with open source communities and we work with open source project in I'm outside of oscar and then we bring them internally within our community To enable people that want to contribute to project to be for them to be able to contribute So make making sure that we have a system in place While working with other communities to make sure that we have more people going on to that project So the advocacy side and the contributor side add two key ways that we drive the project creation and project contributions over at oscar Now this is a bit tricky and this is also very funny You know one of the things that i've i noticed particularly because myself i've been traveling a lot Not text to covet anymore You know whenever i go to conferences or i You know say i'm from africa. I'm coming from africa people often confuse africa to be a country And now i'm not going to say you know trying to fault anybody in you know, it's you know We are humans humans make mistakes, but often often people don't really want to make research But it's also really welcome anyways So africa is not a country africa is a continent it's a continent like asia like you know North america europe south america and you know like i mentioned asia and australia now I'm not obviously going to you know show the map of africa, but this is more of like to show you Where the version one of our program started Obviously nigeria, which is where most of the open source community africa folks lives So it's very typical for us to have More representations in nigeria compared to other side of the continent So over at nigeria when we started, um, i live in port harcourt and my my co-founder She's blazing legos So that was the two main place for us when it comes to having local events And eventually we grew to more cities within africa and within nigeria And then while working on that we were like, okay, it's time for us to expand But then one of the hardest thing in africa is how diverse, you know, the continent is in general From things like language, you know cultures and multiple things, right? So what we started doing was to closely work with individuals like our friends that are in these countries And then see the post the the best possible ways for us to expand the oscar vision down to the community And in order for us to do that we created the chapter program, which i previously mentioned Now we use the chapter program to expand to other cities and other countries in africa And this this um screenshot here was i think was Was taking sometime around late 2019 So before 2018 when we started and sometime around late 2019 We're in about five countries and over 11 cities Currently we're working on the version two of the chapter program that should enable us to cover as much african Countries as possible, particularly do more in the in the south and probably do more in the north So these are the normal um ways that our community event looks So from some photos somewhere in kenya to some in port harkwood to some in legos and some in other part of You know, nigeria and other part of africa So what we normally do is to have a local smaller smaller event where we talk about open source and talk about contributions Or even do more hacker turns or maybe hack some open source project Now this this is an amazing list for me and this is a project created by a friend of mine called ace kid Now we had a um back in nigeria again going back to the github research There's a lot of projects coming out of nigeria one of the most popular one right now on top of my head It's called chakra ui And and it's been used by a lot of companies and a lot of individuals within the javascript ecosystem It just shows how amazing it is Now he made a list called mainly nigeria it's on github you can go such top And this is the way for you to see projects that have Definitely come out of nigeria into the global open source space So you can if you want to learn more about it the link is down I think it's called ace kid that can help the isle slash made in nigeria And you know speaking about our community event We were at some point in order for us to make people to become creators and to have You know more open source project We started making them to work on projects that may improve the engineering skill or maybe design skill or technical writing skill So we worked with our partners open collective, which is a platform where oscar is registered when it comes to fundraising And what we did at that time was to work closely with the team to come up with a bounty program that would be Available within the oscar ecosystem or oscar community And if you look at the slide very well, you see like price tag like $50 Under dollars and you know some other couple price tag being listed And we closely shared this bounty within the community and people that wants to work with them Definitely start working with them Aside from the bounties, you know design is one of the important things here in africa You know africa does have a lot of art and it's very typical that it's You see a lot of designers coming out of the continent And in order for us to make sure that we have a system in place that will help designers locally Particularly if they want to do more stuff, you know out of africa Is by collaborating with the with the kind of in my opinion the the main group that sort of help shape open-source design, which is the open-source design.net group So we started working with them closely sometime around 2019 with some amazing members within the within the team So kind of work with us closely to see how we could shape things And one of the ways that we create diversity in africa Particularly bringing more women in open to us is by partnering with a Second organization called she could africa So she could africa is a is a is a nonprofit organization that Strictly helps more women into technology and sometime around 2019 to 2020 Oscar was able to collaborate with she could africa to bring more women into open-source Um going back to the bounties again This was basically what you know, we were able to do in order to improve An actual coding experience for some persons that defy as developers Now this is kind of the one of the highlights of the festival and it's amazing showing how group of Individuals are coming together to discuss open-source Now just like what I mentioned, right the next billion creators Sorry, this was a screenshot I took for from the festival last year But it just shows how amazing we've come particularly for the open-source community africa And it's one of the amazing things that I am really excited about as a co-founder seeing how we've been able to grow under the last two years So anyways, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you If you have more questions, please you can probably follow me on twitter. Let me see if I can go back Yeah, you can follow me on twitter at samson underscore godi and we could talk more. Thank you very much