Session: 2 for 1: Accelerating Your Career with Open Source and AI / Empowering Community Engagement: Turning Enthusiasm into Action
YK Sugi: Accelerating Your Career with Open Source and AI
Accelerating Your Career with Open Source and AI” explores how open source can supercharge your career, sharing my journey from small contributions to creating a 1200-star AI coding assistant and landing a role at Sourcegraph Cody. I’ll outline practical strategies for contributing to open source and using AI to navigate codebases. For companies, I’ll cover essential tips to make repos more community-friendly, attracting developers who contribute and champion your product. At the end, I will share how combining open source and building in public can be one of the most powerful tools in your tech career development.
Anna Iosif & Shakira Ndagire Seruwagi: Empowering Community Engagement: Turning Enthusiasm into Action
This talk explores strategies to transform the excitement of new contributors to Ushahidi’s open-source technology platform into meaningful contributions for social good. We discuss challenges associated with a rapid influx of enthusiastic members and how we addressed them through refined internal processes, utilizing GitHub features to empower collaboration, and fostering a culture of openness and inclusivity.
We showcase opportunities for contribution across various domains (Code, Quality Assurance, Translation, Design, Documentation, etc.) within Ushahidi’s social justice mission. The focus goes beyond code – it’s about empowering mission-aligned organizations and amplifying underrepresented voices through technology. We shall share innovative strategies being leveraged by Ushahidi to build a foundation for impactful solutions to critical social challenges by cultivating diverse contributor communities.
