Open Source Festival 2022

It’s not just a zero hero story but also about consistency and strategic effort. I began my journey into Open Source through the Women of Open Source Community Africa (WOSCA) initiative in Africa.

Taking on challenges from WOSCA brought me into contact with the open-source community, which has influenced my career to date. Despite the difficulties I faced in finding an OSS project, using Git, and navigating through project codebases, in less than a year, I launched myself from being a code newbie to being an advocate for beginners, the first African Female GitHub Star, and a Maintainer in the CHAOSS community. 
I want to share how my strategy, the lessons, and paths worked for me and how we can be more proactive about diversifying open source contributions in Africa.