In this week's episode, I speak with Vuyisile Ndlovu, a Python developer and AWS-certified cloud practitioner from Zimbabwe. We talk about open-source, the challenges developers face in Africa, and why contributions to open-source are low in Africa and brainstorm ideas to improve it. Vuyisile also shares some great tips on deploying your ideas to the web. This was a fascinating conversation I am privileged to share with you all.

In his own words

Hello! My name is Vuyisile (voo-yee-sea-lay), and I’m a Software Developer. I enjoy writing, speaking, traveling, and cutting wood. I develop back-end web applications and APIs, usually in Python and Django. I do my best work when I work remotely.

Links

• Vuyisile Ndlovu on the web


• Vuyisile Ndlovu on Twitter


• Vuyisile Ndlovu on GitHub


• FirefoxOS


• The Ndebele Language and people


• The Java language


• The Python language


• The .NET language


• The Go language


• The Rust language


• The percentage of open-source contributions from Africa is only 2-3%.
  


• What is an incubator?


• OpenUP


• The rise of open source to spur agile digital government


• A mobile application may enhance Cape Agulhas’ smart city vision


• DeveloperToolchest


• Ourbackyard


• EcoCash


• Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity


• PyPi in a box


• Internet in a box


• What is DevOps?


• Keypass


• HashiCorp Vault


• Divio-Django Invoice


• Woodturning on Youtube

Recorded using Riverside and produced by Mechanical Ink.

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