Every programmer needs a donkey cart
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A rural Namibian programmer describes building local capacity by founding Python Namibia and a PanAm high‑school program, standing up school branches, donating laptops where there is no electricity, and running a national coding contest that the students win “two or three” times. The community uses Ubuntu and Python as core tools, reports ~60% of contributors with 7+ years’ experience, and frames open source as literal donkey cart rides — practical mentoring, staged curricula, and tangible hardware that actually get people into development.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Speaker’s journey
- 5:56Programmers need donkey carts
- 6:36Open source in Namibia
- 9:03Next-gen contributors
- 11:32Nurturing open source communities
- 15:53Python Namibia initiatives
- 19:50Namibian dev challenges
- 21:56Get involved in open source
- 22:38Q&A
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