From Africa With Love

At OSCON in Austin, Texas, I discussed my contribution to the Ballistic Research Laboratory–Computer-Aided Design (BRL-CAD) Open Source Community in 2013/14 when I implemented a heart-shaped primitive and show how this experience catapulted me into an Active Community Organizer for Silicon Mountain, Africa’s next tech hub in Cameroon.

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1. From Africa With Love Isaac Kamga M.Sc. Computer Science
2. • Graduate From PG School Of University Of Buea, Cameroon • Participant in Google’s cornerstone Summer of Code Program In 2013 • BRL-CAD : Oldest open source repository and developed by U.S. Army Research Laboratory • Compile BRL-CAD viz instructions on the link https://brlcad.org/wiki/Compiling • COO @ Skylabase Startup Hi, I’m Isaac Kamga
3. What Is A Primitive ? • A primitive is simply a basic shape within a CAD package ! 3
5. Why A Heart-Shaped Primitive ? • Investigate how a warm symbol of love depended on a cold mathematical equation. • Used to model lovely shapes for weddings, marriage anniversaries, family reunions, etc. • Contribute to open source through BRL-CAD. 5
8. Geometric Properties • Formatted description of heart-shape. • Database importation & Exportation of heart-shape • Bounding Box of heart-shape. • Wireframe of heart-shape • Surface Representation & Raytracing of heart-shape • Type-in support for heart-shape 8
9. Arbitrary Heart-shaped Object amour ▪Vertex, v : (0, 0, 0) ▪X-axis Vector, xdir : (5, 0, 0) ▪Y-axis Vector, ydir : (0, 5, 0) ▪Z-axis Vector, zdir : (0, 0, 5) ▪Distance to cusps, d : 4
10. Type In Support For Amour 10
11. Formatted Description Of Amour 11
12. Bounding Box Of Amour 12
13. Wirerame Of Amour 13
14. Surface Representation Of Amour 14
16. Key TakeKey TakeawayAways Open Source Community Is Key Ingredient In A Growing Tech Cluster 16
17. GSoC 2013 Aftermath 17
18. www.gdgbuea.net Founded Community non-profit Organization to groom programmers. 1. Open Source Contribution Program 2. PL / Meet-up Program 3. Women Techmakers Buea Diversity Initiative
19. Open Source Contribution • Organize Events viz Tech Talks, Installfests, Git Code Labs, etc 19
20. • 26+ GSoC Contributors • 4 Female GSoC Contributors • 8 Mentors in Google Code-In & GSoC • 2 Google Code-In Finalists From Cameroon 20
21. Collins Nji’s Story
22. PL / Meet-up Program • Engineers voluntarily teach students how to code in Startup Space
23. JS / Meet-up @ ActivSpaces
24. JS / Meet-up @ Skylabase
25. Women Techmakers Buea Program • Encourage Women In STEM Events viz IWD, Meet-ups, etc 25
28. We Need Support • To Automate Program Management • To Organize More Meetups • To Build Network Infrastructure For PL/ Meet-up 28
29. Thank You 29 Thanks From