I find myself thinking a lot about helping people get into Tech through open source contribution and maintenance. This is an exciting opportunity space in Africa.

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Shifting mindset from being a consumer (nothing wrong with this) to being a contributor and eventually a creator is a challenging journey that’ll give skills that level you up really fast!
Imagine if you:

✅ Learn the fundamentals of the web by building small, real-life projects from the ground up (no libraries)

✅ Learn how to use open-source libraries to improve your productivity and ship faster.
✅ Pick your favorite libraries. Find ways to improve their documentation, help answer issues, fix bugs, etc.

✅ Learn the art of setting up existing projects from Github and navigating a codebase using tools like Sourcegraph or CodeTour
✅ Learn about automated testing, GitHub actions, GitHub issue templates, etc.

✅ Learn about writing documentation, markdown/MDX, and deploy previews.

✅ Learn how to bundle and ship NPM packages.
There's a whole new level of knowledge in open source that can be used as a training tool.

When people build and ship something they're proud of, no matter how small, it increases their confidence and curiosity.

There are a lot of opportunities that can be unlocked as a result.

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Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W


Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela


The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"