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.

🧵 Thread...

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.

More from All

You May Also Like

The chorus of this song uses the shlokas taken from Sundarkand of Ramayana.

It is a series of Sanskrit shlokas recited by Jambavant to Hanuman to remind Him of his true potential.

1. धीवर प्रसार शौर्य भरा: The brave persevering one, your bravery is taking you forward.


2. उतसारा स्थिरा घम्भीरा: The one who is leaping higher and higher, who is firm and stable and seriously determined.

3. ुग्रामा असामा शौर्या भावा: He is strong, and without an equal in the ability/mentality to fight

4. रौद्रमा नवा भीतिर्मा: His anger will cause new fears in his foes.

5.विजिटरीपुरु धीरधारा, कलोथरा शिखरा कठोरा: This is a complex expression seen only in Indic language poetry. The poet is stating that Shivudu is experiencing the intensity of climbing a tough peak, and likening

it to the feeling in a hard battle, when you see your enemy defeated, and blood flowing like a rivulet. This is classical Veera rasa.

6.कुलकु थारथिलीथा गम्भीरा, जाया विराट वीरा: His rough body itself is like a sharp weapon (because he is determined to win). Hail this complete

hero of the world.

7.विलयगागनथाला भिकारा, गरज्जद्धरा गारा: The hero is destructive in the air/sky as well (because he can leap at an enemy from a great height). He can defeat the enemy (simply) with his fearsome roar of war.