18–25 Sept 2020
Africa/Lagos timezone

Session

Panel discussion "OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTION IN AFRICA" By Samson Goddy, Ruth IKegah, Peace Ojamah and Sri Ramkrishna

25 Sept 2020, 18:00

Description

Sriram Ramkrishna is an principal ecosystems engineer for ITRenew Inc. With over 20 years of experience in corporate and community open source - Sri leverages his experience as a program manager, engineer, and community manager to build, maintain and expand open source ecosystems.

In his personal life, Sri enjoys reading books, hiking, running and using social media to fight against white supremacy.

  1. Samson Goddy is a software developer, an open source advocate, primarily maintaining Sugar Desktop while also serving on the board of directors with Sugar Labs, and sustaining Open Source Collective as a board member. He co-founded Open Source Community Africa, a movement that promotes and educates everything open source within Africa 🌍. He consults with the African Union, the International Telecommunication Union, and UN Women to bring more women into technology.

3.Peace is a product designer with great involvement in building amazing products. She has been an open source lover with active contributions through creating and ensuring a human centred design for Open Source Softwares, leading open source communities and increasingly advocating for open source in and across Africa. She is an advocate for inclusive, usable and accessibility. Peace helps organisations & communities design, maintain & improve the quality of their products, to match the needs of their target audience.

4.Ruth Ikegah is a Python developer from Nigeria. She is sparked about involving more beginners into open source having a dream to become a beginner advocate for open source. Asides doing tech stuff, she's a social volunteer and blood donor.

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