Episode 4: Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta

Sponsors



Cachefly


Panel



Pia Mancini




Richard Littauer




Joined By Special Guest: Samson Goddy and Vipul
Gupta
Episode Summary

Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and
Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria
and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar
Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is
a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an
activity-focused open-source software learning platform for
children. Both Samson and Vipul agree that a lot of developers
they talk to are not very familiar with open source and the most
common question they receive in meet-up groups is how one can
start to contribute to open source. They then discuss what can be
done to have more open source contributors and conference
attendance from the rest of the world. One of the main issues
that make travel difficult is obtaining visa for non-USA and
non-UK citizens. A practice that France has been doing for
conference specific visas is brought up as a beneficial example.
Links:



https://www.oscafrica.org/




https://sustainoss.org/





https://www.sugarlabs.org/




Vipul Gupta's LinkedIn




Vipul Gupta's Twitter




Samson Goddy's Twitter




Samson Goddy's LinkedIn




https://pydelhi.org




ALiAS




https://opencollective.com/osca




https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper




https://www.yegor256.com/about-me.html




Bounties - Open Collective Docs




Sustain Summit 2018 | Sustain Open Source


Picks

Pia Mancini:




Suggestion for certifications for open source contributions




Suggestions to move opencollective forward




Vipul Gupta:




https://swipetounlock.com/




Richard Littauer:




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness




Redshirts by John Scalzi




Samson Goddy:




Nigerian Jollof rice




Black Panther (2018)


Special Guests: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta.