 Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining this session. So I'm going to be talking about Kaya building true open source and Community participation I'm going to start with my introduction. So I'm omotela. You need omotayo. You can just call me omotela I use she are pronounced and I'm from Nigeria, Africa So that means I flew I spent 16 hours to get to this place So you can appreciate me for that Also a community builder I'm a women in tech and dear advocates I'm one of the organizers of the altitude program. So I'm going to be using altitude for my case study for the session Astro she's a paid remote internship opportunity I will tell you more about it during my session and I also lead the community manager team at Shekut Africa Shekut Africa is a non-profit as well that focus on Empowering and celebrating women in tech across Africa Okay, so before we go on I want to ask the audience questions And I think I should just ask one and the question is how many of us in this room have contributed to open source projects before? Oh a lot. Nice. Thank you. So how many of us? Because you've been contributing to open source. I believe you belong to one or two open source communities, right? Okay, are you actively engaging or would you say you've benefited from? Participating in these open source communities If it's yes, okay. All right. Thank you. So Unlike what's many persons might think but contributing to open source goes beyond improving or building open source projects It goes beyond that it's it's a way for you to like improve your career in tech Generally, and you don't have to be a programmer to contribute to open source You don't have to be a Python developer to contribute to open source You can be a technical writer community manager or whatsoever feed you are coming from and you can contribute and improve the open source projects Okay, so these are opportunities that participating in communities open source communities because that's what the stop Session is about can give to you the first thing is networking you being part of this Europe Python conference Enables you to network with other persons persons like a muttala coming from Africa Persons coming from other countries persons from different field that on enums you might have not Think of you're going to meet them. So networking, which is an investment in your career If I have the old time I can give you as examples of our networking has helped me to start from nothing And to get to where I am today Collaboration building projects or bring it that all idea that you have in your head to real life It's easier when you have someone or a lot of other persons on your team working with you It's faster and you it makes you to like see things in different way and to build a more usable and a Project or a solution that is More stronger. Let me put it that way I'm safe confidence. I'm going to be sharing some stories later of people who During the car during the journey of their career They feel timid like they are not sure if they want to talk about what they know They're not sure to talk about what they are building or what they can do and this in a world We make you feel Let's say you are starting from a one and you know a lot of things But because you don't have that safe confidence to like talk to the next person about what you are doing or what you Know you stand at a one for a longer period of time compared to someone that can talk about Oh, I'm a community manager. This is what and this is what I can do So I'm belonging or participating to an open source community boost your confidence because you tend to relate with a lot of other persons Land your dream job before I move to that. Let me talk about building your portfolio contributing to open source You're going to be able to contribute to projects that are bigger than where you are. I mean your career level Imagine you're contributing to say a Google project. I'm just using that an example. You can broadly say, oh, I build that project You don't need to build the project from a to Z yourself But because you are part of the persons that contributed to the success of that project You can claim that in your portfolio and say yes, I actually build this project So that way you are building your experience level and just like the last speaker said when you want when your recruiter asks you What can you do or what have you done before you'll be proud to say? Oh, I've done this I've built this So I'm contributing to open source or participating in open source community actually help you to build your portfolio Then land your dream job Because we're talking about internship later and this is just a way for you to like have more experience to Build you and prepare you for that next opportunity Become an advocate you can become someone like a multilada flew all the way from Nigeria to another country Just to tell other people about how they can build their project and about the about the paid internship opportunity I'll be able to I'll be talking about soon So you can become an advocate not just as a volunteer, but a paid advocate Talking about this or what I do generally in several ways with several organization Is actually paid so that can be your career path being an advocate and get it paid by doing that Now let me move to the story time For this story, I'm going to be talking about Outreachy interns remember I mentioned that this session is going to be I'll be using out through Chi as my case study So I'm going to be using out which he intends to the story to tell you more or to let you see some aspects where Contributing to open source community has actually helped people to build their Career so when I'm going through these stories. I need you to be asking yourself questions because I'm going to be asking your question as well So this is Outreachy past intern who used to be like a state at home mom for over 15 years and after Contributing and participating in the outreach program She landed a full-time job with Linus as a developer So I have some other stories pied up together here another outreachy intern that Participated with the Musilia community and after which they gained self-confidence I talked about self-confidence the other time which has been a an important Parts of their career and it's had also helped them to secure a full-time job with Intel We have Paul Paul is a designer as well post Mentioned that he started his open source background with us which he and was able to get into Interview opportunity with this company at the end of the day They didn't get the job But that actually boosted their confidence as was to be able to prepare for the next opportunity the gods I met them during the last out which you want us on intense celebration in Nigeria And they mentioned that after two months of participating in this outreachy internship program They got their full-time job, which is awesome. So these are other stories stories of how Someone was Bullied they could not not bullied physically But you know where you can talk about what you can do you fit in it and you are like I don't think I want to do this. I think I will just keep it I think I'll keep this to myself. I'll continue working indoor. I don't need to talk about it But contributing to through the outreachy internship True open source communities help them to be able to like start from nowhere or start from somewhere and even improve their level I'm going to be talking about the outreachy stages later, but you will reference this story later So the second stage of the outreachy Internship program requires you to contribute pick a project you want to contribute to by yourself Requires you to contribute to the project for some weeks and this person did not get today in the internship stage But because of the experience they got from the initial application stage and from the contribution stage They were able to like write a book on Python 2 and 3 and they start selling this book and be making money out of it These are other stories stories from outreachy past interns and applicants not just interns now about how Participating in community has actually helped them to build their career Now is your turn. I've been talking about a lot of success stories. I've been talking about ways you can Build your career through open source. I don't know if anybody Asked this question like so you've been talking about this. How do I build my career? I know there is a lot of technical Sections that you've been listening to from the day one of this conference So if you're asking this question or you want to know more about how you can use Communities community open source community participation to be the carer. Let me see and Okay So I'm going to be talking about paid open source programs So paid open source program We have a lot I'm going to be talking about us Ritchie So actually is a three months remote paid internship opportunity that allows you to contribute to open source and open source Open science projects. It's completely remote. You don't have to go to the office. You can be a student Just that you have to be free from school. Then you get 7000 us disciplines as an intern then is open to everyone all you need to prove is that you are underrepresented in the country you are living in You work I've mentioned this So I mentioned earlier that we have three stages. We have the initial application stage We have the contribution stage and the internship stages. So so the initial application stage is where you write a convincing essay It's just like you answering questions about are you are underrepresented in the country you are living in? so you can think of it it might be because you don't have a technical background you don't have a Maybe an undergraduate certificate in tech It can be because you don't have years of experience because Ritchie doesn't need you to have five years two years or to write a full CV We don't even need your CV. So which is a very good way for you to start So when you write this essay and you pass this first stage you move to the second stage Which is where you will show up you will learn and you will contribute So you intentionally pick any projects you want to work on the project has several skills level So you can pick the one you are comfortable with let's say for Python. You are very good with Python You can start on level three. You can if you don't have any experience maybe writing technical Documentation and that is what you the project you want to work on you can start from level one So you are comfortable to pick any projects you want to work on So you do your research you dedicate your time you engage with your mentors the open source community is very inclusive and welcoming Yes, so you have mentors who are willing to dedicate their time to show you. This is how you can do it Then you ask question if you need to then someone a lot of you have other people to solve their Question then you submit your final application. So when you get to the internship stage itself This is just where you are going to double your efforts like everything you've been doing for the past two weeks Contributing to that project. This is where you are going to get paid Get the seven thousand USD and also continue improving yourself your career Putting yourself out there for bigger opportunities and also connecting with small persons in the open source community So this internship runs twice a year. We have the Mate to August Rand and we have the December to February Rand December to March Rand so for the next round is starting next month. So you can take that chance to visit astrochi.org learn more about the application Requirements because you need to be eligible learn more about that and give it a shot I've been talking about internship internship internship There is also a very important way for you as someone who is experienced in open source Contribution to give back to the community giving back to the community can actually help you to build yourself as well So you'll be able to say and you can add that to your portfolio That I've been able to impart how many number of persons lives or change people's stories Maybe their career story and so on and so forth. So astrochi is Looking forward and calling on open source community. So let's say you belong to a community Or you have a project you have projects open source project or open science projects. You want people to Come collaborate with you on so astrochi What comes you to like submit your project or come in as a mentor if you know Oh, you have enough skills and you don't think you you don't want to come in as an intern So you want to come in as a mentor or a mentoring community So we are really advocating for open source community and open science community to come and join us To support diversity in tech by being a mentor you can as well visit the astrochi website astrochi.org dot org and Applied to be a mentor or a mentoring community I think this is the end. I'm going to take questions now Questions you can ask me any questions Okay, we have a little bit more time for questions. So queue up here if you have one Questions about participating in open source community building your career or anything about astrochi Hi, thanks for your talk and your insights. Just curious. How is the autotree financed actually? Thank you. So actually is a pro is a program on the software freedom Conservancy and we have a lot of Organizations individual sponsoring coming in as sponsors to Epos to finance paying this in terms the stipends Thank you Do you track how many people stay active in open source or do you general track people's career trajectories? Do we track? Okay So what we do is we track the number of application we get in our community Because astrochi has a lot of open source community participating rights So we only track number of persons that apply to the program number of persons that get into each stage a Number of persons that were able to take in as interns and for interns We are only able to take in interns that we have mentors who are going through because it's a one-on-one mentorship program So we are able to only take in interns based on the number of communities We have and the number of mentors are available to mentor them Thank you. Thank you for the talk. Thank you for all the questions round of applause, please So if you have any question, you can or you want to like Discuss with me about your open source projects or your open-size projects or how you can be part of this program Please I'll be somewhere there. Please connect with me as well. Thank you so much everyone