Africa's Talking Open Hackathon: Voice Solutions

Jul 28, 2022, 5:30 AM – 2:00 PM (UTC)

Africa's Talking Community

Join us at our open hackathon every last Thursday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback, or contribute to our open source API and SDKs. THEME: Voice Solution (Voice/WhatsApp for county government mobilization centers) Get your ticket, let us exchange knowledge, and best practices, submit feature requests and innovate.

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About this event

Join us at our open hackathon every last Thursday of the month. Build with us, present feature requests, give feedback or contribute to our open-source software, API, and SDKs.

Overview:

Programmable Voice allows you to enrich your call experience by adding features that would have otherwise be inaccessible using the normal physical lines. Our fully featured API gives you a vast number of actions that you can use together to build intuitive solutions

Features:

  1. Call Conferencing
  2. Call Transfer
  3. Say and Play
  4. VOIP Capabilities
  5. Call Recording
  6. SIP Trunking

Use Cases:

  1. 2FA
  2. Premium Services
  3. Call center
  4. Customer notifications
  5. Carrying out Surveys/Data Collection
  6. IVR

Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)


THEME: Voice Solution (Voice/WhatsApp for county government mobilization centers)

  • Build Voice solutions with Africa's Talking Voice and win prizes
    • $100 1st Prize + Exclusive T-Shirts
    • $50 2nd Prize + Exclusive T-shirt
    • $25 3rd Prize + Exclusive T-Shirt
  • 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.


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
  • Presentation: The beginner's guide to the AT Voice API
  • Form teams where need be.
  • Feedback
  • Feature requests

2. 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.

3. Demonstration and Wrap-up

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

Note: Carry a laptop

Opportunities

  • Network
  • Innovate
  • Access to our Talent bench (You can get a job or a gig on the spot)

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 easily bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs.


Would you like to partner with us?  Kindly contact the Developer Experience Team.

Transport:

  • We will provide transport to and from Jeevanjee Garden. We will use SWVL.
  • Note that Jeevanjee Garden  Departure time is 7:45 AM (kindly be on time). 

Speakers

  • Douglas Mwangi

    Africa's Talking

    Software Developer

  • Samuel Gikandi

    Africa's Talking

    Founder and CEO

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

Moderator

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

Featured Attendees

  • Dinka Dereje

    Elelan

    CEO

  • STEPHEN MWANIKI

    CLOUDGLAXY TECH

    CEO

  • Ashiru Lawali

    Mayanchi computer games

    MCG

  • JOANITA NAKITYO

    Alfajiri Innovations Limited

    developer

  • Barigye Betty

    Studio marler

    IT

  • Robert Karuku

    Robsoft Solutions

    Developer

  • Jimmy Wachina

    GGIS

    IT Systems Manager

  • Amos Okello

    Terra Innovations

    Co-Founder

  • Simon Wambugu

    Unified Communications Platforms Limited

    CEO

  • Patrick Waithaka

    Mwangaza Muslim Day Secondary School

    CTO

  • Jonathan Mwebaze

    Jast Tech Limited

    Product Manager

  • Collins Ochieng

    connectshop.co.ke

    CTO

  • Eric Gitangu

    EricG eSolutions

    CTO/Lead developer

  • Januarius Nwodom

    Successbase Auto-mobil

    Successbase Auto

  • Imrana Ibrahim

    Aljazeera pharmaceutical & community health

    CO

  • Tagel Assefa Dendi

    JtabNet

    Assistant CEO

  • Mudassir Mohammad

    Mudassir & Son's

    Mr.

  • Kengaaju Laura Alinda

    AkiraChix

    Software Developer

  • EPHRAIM MAINA

    LIMACK DATA

    IT Support staff

  • Duabo Vanman

    Vanaye construction of goods & global enterprise

    Mr