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

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• Vuyisile Ndlovu on the web
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• Vuyisile Ndlovu on Twitter
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• Vuyisile Ndlovu on GitHub
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• FirefoxOS
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• The Ndebele Language and people
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• The Java language
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• The Python language
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• The .NET language
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• The Go language
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• The Rust language
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• The percentage of open-source contributions from Africa is only 2-3%.
  
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• What is an incubator?
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• OpenUP
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• The rise of open source to spur agile digital government
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• A mobile application may enhance Cape Agulhas’ smart city vision
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• DeveloperToolchest
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• Ourbackyard
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• EcoCash
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• Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity
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• PyPi in a box
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• Internet in a box
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• What is DevOps?
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• Keypass
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• HashiCorp Vault
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• Divio-Django Invoice
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• Woodturning on Youtube
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Recorded using Riverside and produced by Mechanical Ink.

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