The mini-summit provides an intimate engagement space where the dev community, businesses, developers, and Africa's Talking collaborate with one another and the industry to share successes and identify capability gaps that address mission-critical communications needs.

AT is engaging her ecosystem of public and private sector developers for the first time at a customer & developer engagement mini-summit in Kampala, Uganda, in March 2023.

The purpose of the mini-summit, For Developers, is:

• Engage with Developer communities in Kampala, Uganda
• Engage with Startup Hubs in Kampala, Uganda
• Engage with Public and Private Universities in Kampala, Uganda
• Recruit developers for Open Source
• Share team and collaboration best practices 
• Run an Open Hackathon with Developers

The purpose of the mini-summit, For Startups, is:

• Introduce AT Dev Shop
• Organize a hiring/talent bench
• Showcase AT Products for Uganda Market
• Showcase Plug & Play Customer Engagement Solutions on AT
• Add startups on the AT Marketplace
• Highlight the AT platform progress across Africa
• Highlight ruby as an open source language, and Atlassian tools.

The purpose of the mini-summit, For AT Customers, is:

• Celebrate Current customers
• Get direct feedback from customers on AT platform
• Showcase customer stories on the AT platforms
• Provide a collision space for the AT ecosystem

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Africa's Talking APIs
   
3. Hands-On hackathon

1. The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

   1. Winner - $100

   2. 1st Runners Up - $50

   3. 2nd Runners Up - $25

2. Introductions

• Feedback

• Warm-Up

• Form teams where need be.
• Feature requests

1. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo

   Note: This section needs additional setup.

   Upon commit, the repository is built and deployed to an accessible web server or an S3 bucket.

2. Demonstration and Wrap-up

   Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption