Talk about the AfricaHackTrip at BerlinJS
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The document describes AfricaHackTrip, a 5-week trip by 9 European hackers to tech hubs in 4 East African cities - Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, and Dar es Salaam - to explore local tech scenes, exchange ideas with local developers, and collaborate. It provides details on the goals of connecting communities and sharing experiences, activities like hackathons and meetups held in each city, and reactions and impressions from participants and local hackers.
Talk about the AfricaHackTrip at BerlinJS
- 1. AfricAHackTrip Nairobi / Kenya AfricaHackTrip Kampala / Uganda Kigali / Rwanda @africahacktrip #aht13 Dar es Salaam / Tanzania africahacktrip.org
- 3. Who has heard of AfricaHackTrip? How? Who knows developers from other countries, other continents? Are you collaborating? Bene鍖tting? From Africa? Why not?
- 4. bbc.co.uk/news (07/2012) in the past two years there has been an interesting phenomenon in Africa - the proliferation of tech hubs and incubators. There are now more than 50 tech hubs, labs, incubators and accelerators in Africa, covering more than 20 countries. In Nairobi, we have six. four years ago we had an idea and built a space that now has more than 8,000 members and holds approximately 120 events per year. The tech hubs in Africa provide a home for those with new and innovative ideas, create an atmosphere where they are encouraged to try new things, and most importantly are able to meet like-minded individuals they can grow with. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18878585
- 5. 9 Hackers from Europe ! 5 weeks: Sep Oct 2013 ! Capitals of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania ! explore the local tech scenes, to exchange and collaborate with designers and developers ! #community #opensource #webapps #ux #mobile
- 6. Agenda 1. Facts 2. JavaScript? 3. Conclusions 4. Outlook 5. Discussion
- 8. Who?
- 9. Alex Berlin Runs a web dev company Runs co.up (coworking space, host of countless community activities) Active in the Ruby community
- 10. Martin Berlin JavaScript apps freelancer BerlinJS community Organizer and coach at OpenTechSchool
- 11. Vicy Berlin Knows shit about Africa and people Blogs for eufrica.org Is not a hacker
- 12. Jan Munich Open-source designer Data privacy activist Creator of JavaScript user groups
- 13. Basti nomad Co-founder of 5apps (HTML5 app deployment) Open-source, web platform, bitcoin enthusiast Ruby community
- 14. Gregor Zurich Not a designer, not a developer, JavaScript and web enthusiast Creates #hoodie, #aht13, #nobackend
- 15. Tobi Berlin Software developer Backend, mobile, languages iOS/Mac dev community
- 16. Emi Krakow UX and graphic designer Co-founder of web dev company #WomenInTech @WebMuses
- 17. Bumi Cologne Runs web dev company Runs coworking space Ruby and coworking community
- 20. 2009: submarine 鍖bre-optic internet connection for East Africa ! From no net to mobile net in four years ! 50 tech hubs, labs, incubators and accelerators in 20 countries ! Median age under 20 years
- 22. Nairobi / KeNya 24 SEPTEMBER 1 OCTOBER KAMPALA / UGANDA 2 OCTOBER 8 OCTOBER KIGALI / RWANDA 9 OCTOBER 15 OCTOBER DAR ES SALAAM / TANZANIA 16 OCTOBER 23 OCTOBER
- 23. Centered around Nairobi iHub DEMO Africa ! Nairobi / KeNya 24 SEPTEMBER 1 OCTOBER KAMPALA / UGANDA 2 OCTOBER 8 OCTOBER East African Community Visa and stu鍖 ! Traveling by plane (and by bus for fun) KIGALI / RWANDA 9 OCTOBER 15 OCTOBER DAR ES SALAAM / TANZANIA 16 OCTOBER 23 OCTOBER
- 24. just go there!
- 25. Goals to exchange, to get to know each other, to learn from each other ! to connect communities ! to share our experiences with the world ! to travel, to learn, to have fun
- 26. Fears there are no like-minded hackers ! to be misunderstood (as random visitors) (as people that want to "help") (as people with business interest)
- 27. What did we do?
- 29. Hacker stu鍖! Hack-a-thons! Barcamps! Visit tech spaces ! Interview people ! Party machen!
- 30. Two full-day events in each city Barcamp to get to know each other Hack-a-thon to hack with each other About 50 participants each event ! ! #webapps #ux #mobile #html5 #opensource #design #communities #鍖refoxos #openhardware
- 32. How did we do that, we are just a bunch of hackers?
- 33. Self-organized Self-funded Finding sponsors is a lot of work GitHub paid for event catering ! That's it
- 35. ?
- 36. ! Community ! Where I come from ! Share experience
- 37. ! HTML5 as app platform ! Firefox OS ! Android -> HTML5
- 39. ! Grow and strengthen global community ! Connect local communities
- 53. Questions?
- 54. What's next? How was it? What did people expect from you? How are the African hackers? How was DEMO Africa? Money transfer You brie鍖y visited? How do you know? Tell us more about the Mozilla community there. Did you meet your goals? What are the results? Infrastructure? EuroHackTrip How do African freelancers make money?
- 55. Infrastructure
- 56. Five weeks!? And you didn't kill each other?