Hello everyone, and I'd Like to welcome you to the official OSCA KAMPALA CHAPTER. This is the Ugandan branch of an African wide community called Open Source Community Africa, OSCA in short, and that's where we derive our name. The Purpose for such a community is to bring together African, and for this case, Ugandan Developers in order to solve some of the problems affecting the African community. One of the problems that this community wishes to solve is the problem of being more of "tech users" than "tech developers". We are therefore here to encourage the African Developer community to start building real world production level tools to tackle read world problems.

A Roadmap is a way of organising our development journey so that the community can have an orderly development procedure. You can read through our roadmap here

We had our first ever online Virtual event to launch the OSCA KAMPALA chapter on Friday June/18/2021. The guest speaker for that event was our very own Aanyu Deborah Oduman, who talked about Open Source, how to get started and all the benefits involved. Some of her presentation slides are given here More virtual conferences are yet to be organized to address the members of the community on the best way to build up the community.

Some of the community members in OSCA KAMPALA chapter are very new to some forms of technology. On that note, the OSCA Team is coming up with best measures to provide free mentorship sessions to the members of the community in order to nurture and get them ready to start contributing to leading open source projects. Not only are they to contribute to open source, but the skills they acquire shall also be valuable to them for the sake of getting employed in the technology sector.

We are making a curated list of developers in Uganda and the projects they are working on. The curated list is going to be a central repository for the Ugandan made software. This will act as a catalogue to showcase the various projects that the community is working on. This list shall be contained in the made-in-uganda repository which you can find here

Here are the instructions for you to make an orderly edit to the made-in-uganda repository.

1. First,the made-in-uganda repository will contain the list in form of md files. Write a proper presentation and description of your project in an md file and save it.
2. Secondly, fork the made-in-uganda repository and add the md file into that repository on your account.
3. Create a pull request to the central made-in-uganda repository.
4. After evaluation, your pull request shall be merged into the main branch.

If you have a project idea and you would really like to put it out there so that you can get a group of members to help you out with it, you can create a PROJECT REQUEST For now, The procedure for making a project request is not yet defined. However, discussion on how to go about it shall be carried out for our social media platforms. You can find our website here which contains all links to our social media platforms.

The OSCA KAMPALA chapter has a variety of developers in the community. Some of the developers are already in the professional fields while others are still students in colleges and highschool, trying to get involved in the open source industry. Below are some of our community members. Kakooza Jerry Isophel's GitHub Isophel's LinkedIn