 Shun be pretty easy. How about 14%? Do you want me to give you a clue? There is the clue. Anybody? Top 100 websites in the world. 14% of them run on WordPress. And then we have this. That's easy. Okay. Number of 32% of websites are run by WordPress. Yeah? Which one? Which statistic? The 17%? It's on the website. It's on the website, bro. It's on the website. Okay. So I want to... Oh, then the network went. So I want to give you something else. So my name is Uduorn Jagero. I have other names. Which are basically English names. One is Ken. Another one is Anthony. But I like my witch names. These are my witch names. In my luo culture, every person has to be given a name. Your soul. That separates you from everyone else. You cannot find... So the spirit, the force that moves you if you luo, then it's Uduorn. It means midnight. Yeah? And then Jagero means... I don't want to say. I don't want to say. So I want to tell you what I am doing right now. Then I'm going to tell you my story. And I am here because of open source. One of the things that you should know is that I was born... I'm the only member of my family that was not born in a hospital. My mother gave birth to me on the roadside. Walking to the hospital. And that is why my nose is a little big. Because she thinks that I fell on the road. And my head is a bit out of shape. That's what she says. So I'm going to tell you what I am now. So this is my life. What we'll discuss is open source. Then we'll discuss my life. Then my writing and how it all goes back to the topic. Okay? So three things that define me. I am the lead CMS Africa. And I am CEO of kwaamiji.co.ke that does basically web design. I am a writer and a novelist. Stroke novelist. Okay? So this is CMS Africa Summit. An event that I organized that I founded and organized hopes from one African country to the other every year. Last year, this year we were in Kigali Rwanda. That is, there should be a picture of Kigali Rwanda. Bit of the crowd. The first picture is also Kigali Rwanda. We were in Abuja last year. Keptown. Keptown 2019. I am very excited. Are you excited? So, if you are fired up about organizing events, I've been talking to a few people, but if you are really fired up about organizing events, you can speak with me, we can talk, we can make this the biggest event in Keptown after one camp. I'm saying that because of Bruce. He's a big man, man. So kwaamiji is a company that basically does branding and web design. And that is something that I really love. And then I am also a writer. I write short stories, I write point three and I write novels. So those are my books. Why the hospital corridor is white is fiction about something. The ghost of 1894 is a story that I recite in Rwanda. It talks about what led to the genocide in 1994. So I recite 100 years before the genocide. And then there is the true citizen. That's an urban fiction that talks about a cop who falls in love with someone. And then we have say my colon is about a lady that wants to commit suicide, but first she has to travel the world. So that's about me. That's what I do now. A lot of things. And guess what? The amount of brain power that he uses is just 4.7. I am not kidding. I have a family. That's my daughter right there. And the woman of my life. So that's about me. I live in Nairobi. I am honestly telling you don't grow up. It's a trap. And that is how my story starts. So my story is not very nice. I was born about 25 km off my local town called Kisumu. That's about 350 miles from the capital city Nairobi. And my mother was a housewife. And my father was an accountant and also a drunkard. And he should have taken care of us. But the bottle man, the bottle took him away. So I went to school and then very difficult times. No school fees, no nothing because all the money was, money was going to the mighty bottle and then I finished by the grace of who that guy called Lakidube thinks about. So in 2001, after my high school, my father died of depression. I guess I blame alcohol. And then I needed to go to college. And there was no money to go to college. I really wanted to be a journalist and a writer. So my idea of going to college was like flushed. Okay. And then I say to myself, I want to go to the capital city of Nairobi and study. But there was no way of doing that. My uncle was in Nairobi City. Nairobi is a very dramatic city. Huge. I don't know what to compare it with Jobag. You know, Kels. Jobag? Yeah? Yeah, something like that. So my uncle was living there and I told him I want to go there. No, I didn't tell him actually because he wouldn't let me. Nairobi staff don't want an extra mouth to feed, bro. So I went anyway without telling him. So I went there. It was drizzling when I reached the city of Nairobi in 2004. And I went to his house. He was out on a business trip, got me back when he came back and said hi. Said hi. And then he didn't ask me anything. I started school because my mother told me that she's going to make everything work. My mother. I don't know. I think she was bluffing but she told me I'll make everything work. So she didn't because five months into my college and so I remained in the city without nothing. The college told me that, boy, you need to get us fees. We're doing away with your classes. So I dodged them for six months until my certificate. And then when my certificate was done, I told my head of department, good lady that, you know what, I am leaving school. And she told me, wow, so why? So life is hard. She told me to write a letter to the dean and I was given scholarship. For three years I went in, come out, went in, come out with the big body saying that I have finished school fees and I was rolling. So then I was now a professional writer and I started writing. I never got employed, which is a bad thing. I only got employed for 30 minutes. So when this guy gave me a job to write and by that time I was already writing a lot and doing scripts for the theaters around Nairobi and then this guy told me that I've got a very good job that you need to do. It was paying very well, $600 a month. Bye then, you know. And then I realized after that meeting that I had four meetings to go to, the day I went to report for the work. So I told this gentleman that you know what, I have meetings I cannot afford to miss. So I took my laptop bag. So when waiting for that gentleman, I realized that I am not able to do anything anymore because I'm going to be there from 8 to 5. So I never went back. Okay. So I've never been employed since then. I've just been doing this thing. So that brings me to how WordPress and open source saved my life. Okay. Because then I was in the city of Nairobi with only a pen and I needed to write. And I needed people. By then Facebook was there, but then people were having internet in Nairobi and I needed to take my work of writing out there. So I started a blog on WordPress. All right. Started writing poetry on WordPress and sharing on Facebook. Started doing this and sharing on Facebook. Then I got a friend of mine who was doing Jumla. He started doing the Jumla day, Jumla day Kenya. All right. Which is an equivalent of WordPress, Wadcamp, right. So I was helping him post on his blog, Jumla blog and I was posting on WordPress. And that is how people knew that I was a writer because of WordPress. And that is how a young boy that was born in the side of the road got his work out there to the world through WordPress. And when you look at the whole thing you begin to realize how important WordPress is. You begin to realize how important open source is to the world. And I was reading of a gentleman yesterday in the night who has made 12 million US dollars on one WordPress theme. 12 million on one WordPress theme. And that is how open source can change the world. 330 million Africans live in poverty and hunger. They are not able to get anything like breakfast, any lunch, any supper. 330 million. That is a hooping 24.7% of Africans. That some of them do not know that open source can change their lives. And nobody is talking to them about how open source can change their lives. How WordPress can change their lives. How Drupal can change their lives. How Magento can change their lives. And we meet these people every day and we don't tell them anything about these things. And if somebody had told me about WordPress and what WordPress can do before I discovered it myself then my life would have been changed before it was changed. That is the statistics in Africa. 28% 300 million. And when everybody talks about money we do not realize what money can do and what the human capability is towards doing all these things. So my message against from Kenya to Keptown is that do not underestimate open source because it's going to change the world. It is already changing the world. And one of the greatest things about open source is the collaboration part of open source. And when I talk to your people about level playground and that is the reason why I think there should be no... When there is a time we were having CMS Africa Summit in Nairobi and there was this very heated exchange between people, lovers of WordPress, lovers of Drupal and lovers of Jumla and lovers of other CMSs like Python and all these things about how good one is and how bad the other one is. And I think that is irrelevant in as far as open source is concerned because one way or the other the one complements the other. And that is when I went to Jumla Walla conference in America, Boston one of the people that was speaking there was actually Matt giving the kiss page at a Jumla Walla conference. He was the kiss speaker. And I think he led the way in a very drastic... He did something that really changed how people were looking at open source softwares like enemies of each other. Every year at CMS Africa and I want to thank Yop for organising the automatic to come to CMS Africa every year. In fact, automatic has been sponsoring CMS Africa Summit for the last four years. Let's give them a hand. And at CMS Africa Summit you find these guys exchanging notes on how we can collaborate as an open source community and change the world. There is so much happening in Africa right now. The entire duration of my stay in Cape Town I have not been driven by a South African in a taxi once today in the morning but the entire time Africa has been collaborating. Let me use the word. I have been driven as in Babwen I have been driven by a Malawian I have been driven by somebody from Botswana and all these other guys. When we talk about the things that happen in South Africa such as the tag of war and the other things that I don't want to discuss in details is that the thing is human beings are not supposed to be enemies and I've realised it the hard way. In Kenya there is this thing called tribalism I don't know if it's here in South Africa. My tribe is called the Luo then the other tribe is called the Kikuyu and the other tribe is called the Kamba and these guys are always fighting especially my tribe and the Kikuyu tribe they're always fighting and for me as a Luo when I'm selling my books I keep all the names of people who have bought my books and if you look at all the people that have bought my names the Kikuyu which is my most hated tribe buys my book more than 80% more than my own tribe which is a paltry 10% so if I hate the Kikuyu then I look like a fool if a white South African hits a black South African then he looks like a fool if a black South African hits a white South African then he looks like a fool and most of most if you look at a human being you know what time is it by the way how many minutes do I have I am good ya okay cool what I have realised is that a human being has very deep seated problems and if you approach that human being because you think he is this way or the other extremely unfair to that person because most of his sins are not his sins most of her sins are not her sins okay so I want to tell you that start loving people like open source loves people because nobody loves people like open source no one no one loves people like open source it has changed my life dramatically and the kind of collaboration that I have gotten from the open source community is unbelievable the company that is making the application for CMS Africa Summit is domicile in Poznan, Poland a gentleman called Kuba Lewinsky a guy that I met online and has been supporting the app for the last four years without a single cent he has been coming to CMS Africa Summit on his own money for the last four years okay Yop is a Belgian living in South Africa he has been so helpful with his team what they are trying to do is to help humanity and that is the soft side of business the soft side of business has to help humanity and I always say this thing some people come to me to build a website for free and I do build websites for free when they can't afford it because it is my duty to help those that are my neighbors okay so my message from Kenya is that humans are very good I am a specimen I am a confession that humans are very good and when you have a problem let me tell you a story that happened last night I was walking down from my hotel room looking for a restaurant to eat something and then I stroll into this restaurant called Jerry's very lively restaurant lot of people and when I get there I saw the big guy he is sitting at the corner and then I see some guy that works for 10 up 10 up he is in there talking I didn't know they were there turns out they were having a dinner turns out they were having a dinner and I joined them and we spoke and we laughed there is this gentleman that looks like a Jew I think he is sitting somewhere oh right there and his brother his brother is somewhere his brother is there so we talked and we chatted we talked about an array of topics he asked me a lot of questions about writing about this thing and we were sharing all the food it was a long bill it was long like the supermarket for an organization and then the guy picks the bill and pays it they Jew over there so that is how humanity operates and when you start loving people that are next to you and you start to feel good and so if there is somebody that you need to help be an open source to that person because it's very very important it's very very important so my that is all I wanted to say today that open source has made me open source has made lots of people and it is time for us to realize that fact and start opening up ourselves open your companies to people that want internship open your spaces for people want to work I remember when I was working in Nairobi I couldn't afford internet completely and South Africa oh dear internet is expensive here when I went when I was at the airport and they told me to give them $20 for one GB I was like what are you talking about that is 50 GB in Kenya 50 and it is even more in Nigeria Lagos internet is like water so if somebody does not have internet please allow these young people to come into your office and work because the next day it will be their day they will help your children I am telling you for a fact let's see I hope the internet has come so that I read you more statistics for what price internet here we go here we go here we go here we go I am out of luck yeah I am out of luck so I want to end my conversation by saying that I am very privileged to have known about water price I am very privileged to have known about Tomatik I am very privileged to have known about Drupal, Jumla, Magento and all these things and I hope that you will go out there and use water price to change the world ok thank you very much there are questions yeah so if you have any questions please raise your hand I will run across to you first is this person to me he has a question nice presentation thank you what is the objective of SEALS Africa training and how are you measuring this size ok so SEALS Africa actually happened by accident we were doing Jumla Day I didn't know about what come then we were doing Jumla Day and then lots of other people were coming that were not interested in Jumla and I was what the hell are these guys if you are not interested in Jumla why are you here I realized that these guys were some of them who were developing using Drupal and all the rest of these here messes but they were coming because it was fun it was really really fun and so I sat down and realized why don't I do an event that brings together all these guys so that's why I started and so what happens is that it has workshops for different here messes for example we can have 1130 we are having different workshops like 4 workshops running at the same time one is WordPress, one is Jumla and one is this and one is this and then we have a common room sometimes where you can go and ask questions so the idea is to I guess according to my subject my topic is to create a level playground for anybody who wants to use open source software so that is the reason why I started CMS Africa and that is why I guess everybody loves it whether you are coming from Jumla whether you are coming from Magento Python or whatever and then there are business topics we don't just discuss the practical so the workshops we also have other business topics such as the one that was done that was there before break time okay, ansas your question oh my books are on Amazon type my name on Amazon and everything pops up okay yep alright yes there is one there so so this CMS Africa is going to be in K-top in March if people here want to help you how should they do that alright so CMS Africa summit is a community it is very less of a business thing it is very much of a community so the difficult part of CMS Africa summit is organization every year it is in a different country and in techs a company or people in those countries to help organize it so the people that I am looking for are people who can help me organize help us organize the event people who are marketers people who can connect us with sponsors people who can connect us with venues and all those kind of things most important thing is to come my friend most important thing is to come my friend you can go to CMSAfricaSummit.org CMSAfricaSummit.org and you can present yourself as a speaker we already have about 20 people speaking yeah so that is how you can help and my email is my name and CMSAfrica.org you can write me an email okay yes there is a question right there what you mean like how to make sure that they have the money to run the operations something and to answer that question I think we have to go back to WordPress.org and WordPress.com I think somebody told me that open source does not mean free yeah and so this is one of the problems this is one of the conversation that is going on right now with Jumla because they are really struggling in terms of how to make it sustainable I mean last year this year they have cut the funding for Jumla Day by they usually give $1,500 to every Jumla Day that happens this year it has been cut all the way back to $500 you have to look for that money to do the event and that is difficult and they are marketing money has really shrung over the years I think that an organization so big as Jumla shouldn't be suffering I mean there should be ways of getting money they have these volunteers that make all these plugins and I believe that something has to be done to be provided I mean you can provide the main thing WordPress.org for free to everyone and then you have to be a little creative in the way you have to get money and I also think that most of the the problematic thing I see with most of the CMSs and open source is that I'm sorry to say over exploit the use of I mean you must find people that are core people that are working for open source there has to be a core group that is working that are probably paid and then you have volunteers around the world but if you have volunteers everywhere then it becomes very difficult to even get people for example in a CMS that I don't want to talk about you know does not have a proper communication structure then if you do not have a proper communication structure I don't know how you can even organize a gala or a dinner for people to give money towards your project so I think there are creative ways that you can do that I think I don't know if that answers your question a little bit okay thank you very much everyone