Aug 26, 2023, 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM (UTC)
Join us at our open hackathon every last Saturday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback, or contribute to our open-source API and SDKs. THEME: Innovating around Africa's Talking APIs Get your ticket, let us exchange knowledge, and best practices, submit feature requests, and innovate.
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Join us at our open hackathon every last Saturday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback, or contribute to our open-source software, API, and SDKs.
Overview:
Are you a React developer? Are you looking to build products at scale? Do you know react can be used to create scalable applications? How can you make a more intuitive user experience using Africa's talking?
Building Solutions is a form of art by itself, education and design in its development. To develop apps, you need to incorporate everyone at different stages while building an experience. With Africa's Talking APIs you can share knowledge, store knowledge and build memorable concepts. This can be done involving other users in the interaction to grow skills. Modern tools provide the chance to quickly build applications that are easily scaled. This experience can be enhanced using USSD, SMS, Voice and reward winners through Airtime and Data.
Join us and let us build scalable solutions.
Key Focus Areas:
Target Audience:
Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)
THEME: Innovating around Africa's Talking APIs
The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
More exclusive prizes and giveaways to attendees.
Contribute to open-source.
Elarian: Build Responsibly, Protect Customer Data.
Elarian is a customer engagement framework (Customer Data Platform) that helps you build robust applications with the customer as the unit of abstraction. Elarian features robust capability in handling end to end of customer data.
Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime, and Payments APIs to bring their ideas to life, as they build and sustain scalable businesses.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up
2. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo
Note: This section needs additional setup.3. Demonstration and Wrap-up
Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption.Note: Carry a laptop
Opportunities:
Submit your Idea:
Hackathon idea submission form.
Gigs:
We would love to reach out to you so that you can build for our customers, please fill out this form with details to ensure we have your details:
GIG/HACK DEVELOPER PORTFOLIO FORM
Join community channels:
Slack & WhatsApp:
Please follow us on Twitter handles to:
@AfricasTalking
@ElarianHQ
You can get our videos, recaps, and event interviews on our youtube channels, subscribe to get updates:
Africa's Talking community allows developers to learn skills for the modern-day African Developer. We are language and framework agnostic. All developers are welcome. This is where Africa's Talking developers community meets to build, learn and exchange knowledge.
We are helping software developers and businesses to bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs quickly.
Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact the Developer Experience Team.
Africa's Talking Community Lead
Software Engineer
Africa's Talking Community Lead
Software Engineer
Saturday, August 26, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:30 PM (UTC)
| Warm-Up |
| Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo |
| Lunch |
| Demonstration and Wrap-up |
University of Dar Es Salaam
Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya
Community Lead, 🇬🇲 The Gambia
Community Lead, 🇳🇬 Kaduna, Nigeria
Altech Group
Community Co-Lead, 🇷🇼 Rwanda
Sitemonki
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
Africastalking LTD
WIT Community Lead 🇰🇪 Kenya
Africa'sTalking Uganda
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
MlimiPay Limited
Community Lead, 🇲🇼 Malawi
Community Co-Lead 🇷🇼 Rwanda
Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya
FnStack
Community Lead, Congo
Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda
Community Lead Goma, DRC
Community Lead, Abuja, Nigeria
Community Lead, Kano, Nigeria
