GitHub Universe 2017

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1. The Silicon Mountain Community Building a tech community within an African society KONRAD DJIMELI Organizer @GDG Buea | GitHub Campus Expert
2. What is the Silicon Mountain community?
3. Why Silicon Mountain ? What can we learn from this community?
4. Our Struggles Successes Efforts Vision
5. Our Struggles
6. Lack of resources • Finance • Reliable and affordable Internet • Frequent power failure • Poor educational standards
7. Hard to Survive No jobs / Internships
8. Political Issues Internet shutdown
9. Our Successes
11. Google Doc Camp 2013
12. 2013 & 2014 GSoCers
13. GSoC Stats Buea
16. Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize The winner of the Creating Shared Value Prize for 2016 is Agro-Hub from Cameroon. The organisation has successfully linked smallholder cassava farmers to markets. Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke presented the CHF 300,000 prize to Agro-Hub at the forum.
17. Our Efforts
18. GSoC MeetUp
19. PL / Meetup
20. Google Developer Group Buea
21. Women Techmakers IWD Buea 2017
22. GSoC MeetUp
23. Internet refugee camp
24. NJAKA
25. KubeCon 2017
26. Silicon Mountain Conference 2016
29. Student Developer Pack
30. Campus Experts
31. Our Vision Leaders of technological innovation in Africa
32. • Promote open source • Support our events • Support our startups • Provide scholarship for international conferences How can you contribute ?
33. - Terry Wildemann “Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in life, it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
34. Africa has a lot of talent and potential which just needs to be properly guided.
35. djkonro djimeli.me Let us help build communities that code