The Linux Foundation Member Summit

Africa still is the forgotten continent, even if all the means are there to have African talent participating in the world wide Open Source movement. Governments are using proprietary software, implemented by expensive foreign consultants, because of the lack of local people that have received the proper education. The Living Open Source Foundation aims at changing that by empowering individuals through training in Open Source techniques and attitude. In this session you will learn how the Living Open Source Foundation has been offering education to talent in different African countries since 2019. On that journey, different problems were encountered and lessons were learned. Just bringing education is not enough, the educated talent needs to have access to jobs in local economies once educated and certified. That is why Living Open Source Foundation focusses on enabling local economies by using Open Source software. In this session you'll learn how we work, and how you can participate in bringing Open Source to Africa.