Building for the world from Nigeria with Open Source

Using a listing of open source projects built by Nigerians for the world, we take a dive into the current state of open source in Nigeria. This talk is going to go over some data insights that we can get from this list and what we can do to improve them: demographics of contributors, languages, types of projects and also the people actively building stuff. It’d also shed some light on areas that we need to take note of including inclusion in open source.

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1. Building for the world from Nigeria with Open Source An insight into the Made in Nigeria Open Source Project
2. Adewale "Ace" Abati - Frontend Engineer & Developer Advocate at Flutterwave - Web Engineer and Open sourcer - YouTuber @ace_kyd /AceKYD
3. A brief background Created out of the need to show that Nigerians do more than just consume tools but can also build tools for global consumption in March 2017. Criteria included: Created by a Nigerian, Global relevance, 10+ stars. Now a part of the Made in Africa collection on GitHub. madeinnigeria.dev github.com/acekyd/made-in-nigeria
4. Top countries and regions percentage growth in contributors since last year https://octoverse.github.com/ GitHub's 2020 State of the Octoverse
5. STATS 186 YEARS TOTAL DURATION OF COLLATION 04 102 95 272 477 CREATORS HAVE THEIR PROJECTS LISTED ON THE REPO PROJECTS HAVE BEEN CREATED FOR GLOBAL USE CONTRIBUTORS HAVE HELPED ADD PROJECTS TO THE LIST FORKS PEOPLE THAT HAVE FORKED THE REPO STARS PEOPLE LOVE IT :)
6. 49,231+ Popularity All of these projects have a combined total number of 49,231 stars showing how many people have found them useful all over the world. ⭐⭐ ⭐
7. A growing community Across 186 projects, there have been 1,049 total contributors that have made these projects the quality they are today. 1,049
8. Only 3 out of 95 contributors are women. This prompts a lot of questions and concerns. About reach, awareness and the ecosystem in support of getting more women contributing to open source projects.
9. Only 4 out of 102 creators are women. This indicates a serious need for more women to be supported and encouraged to be a part of open source. And also to not hesitate to come out and be proud of their work.
10. Simple, modular and accessible component library for React applications. With over 16,054 stars and 344 contributors, chakra-ui is the most popular project. chakra-ui ImageAI A python library built to empower developers to build applications and systems with self-contained Computer Vision capabilities Altair A sleek graphQL client app for querying GraphQL servers, like Postman for graphQL. It also comes as a Chrome extension. Magic Grid A simple, lightweight Javascript library for dynamic grid layouts.
12. Creators
13. Contributors
14. KEY TAKEAWAYS? We need to provide a platform where more women comfortable participating, contributing, creating and sharing their open source projects. Talent is everywhere and you can build for the world regardless of where you are. We also need more organizations to recognize this. JavaScript is right on top. Powering a lot of these open source projects. And getting into contributing with these popular tools is easier than ever.
15. CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, including icons by Flaticon, and infographics & images by Freepik. Please keep this slide for attribution. THANKS Open to answering questions! twitter.com/ace_kyd Adebayo Oluwatosin Data Analyst @debayotomisin07 Lorna Maria Data Analyst @lornamariak