AFRICA'S TALKING MINI-SUMMIT CHUKA

Name: AFRICA'S TALKING MINI-SUMMIT CHUKA
Start: 2023-02-11T08:30:00+03:00
End: 2023-02-11T18:00:00+03:00
Location: BSL 301, Chuka University, Main Campus

Africa's Talking Community

Feb 11, 5:30 AM – 3:00 PM

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Join Africa’s Talking and Atlassian Community Nairobi at our first in-person mini-summit created to facilitate collaboration and innovation between our customers and industry at all levels. Learn customer engagement best practices by creating solutions that grow your business.

Please RSVP if you are in/make it to Tharaka Nithi County.

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About this event

Please RSVP if you are in/will make it to Tharaka Nithi, Kenya.
Join Africa's Talking in collaboration with Atlassian Community at our first in-person mini-summit created to facilitate collaboration and innovation between our customers and industry at all levels to create, learn and develop solutions for scalability that directly impact business success.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 developers, public and private sector for the first time at a customer & developer engagement mini-summit in Tharaka Nithi County, this February  2023.
The purpose of the mini-summit, For Developers, is:
Engage with Developer communities in Tharaka Nithi County
Engage with Startup Hubs in Tharaka Nithi County
Engage with Public and Private Universities in Tharaka Nithi County
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 Tharaka Nithi County
Showcase Plug & Play Customer Engagement Solutions on AT
Add startups on the AT Marketplace
Highlight the AT platform progress across Africa
Highlight 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
Introductions
Atlassian Collaboration tools
Africa's Talking APIs
Hands-On hackathon
The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
1. Winner - $50
2. 1st Runners Up - $25
3. 2nd Runners Up - $20
Introductions
Feedback
Warm-Up
Form teams where need be.
Feature requests
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.
Demonstration and Wrap-up
Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption
Submit your Idea: Hackathon idea submission formCarry a Laptop
 
The underlying benefits of the mini-summit include:
Thought leadership sessions from distinguished speakers
Networking with the community, our customers and ATeam
New feature releases
Dedicated working groups to identify gaps and develop solutions
Presentations from our experts in tactical communications deployments
Expert presentations 
Africa’s Talking API platform now serves over 115,000 developers and 6000+ businesses across Africa and beyond.
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.
Atlassian Community Nairobi is an award-winning community with over 4500 members. (SET THE STANDARD 2018 - Atlassian Summit 2018, MOST ACTIVE in EMEA 2017-Atlassian Summit Europe 2017), (Global MASTERS OF CONVERSION WINNER 2017-Atlassian Summit US 2017) and (SET THE STANDARD 2022- TEAM 22). The Atlassian Community Nairobi encourages better use of Atlassian tools and shares best practices, case studies, and individual perspectives. This Community has an abundance of Atlassian Experts and customers in the area - let's take advantage of each other's expertise. If you've got a topic to present or questions you need to be answered, we're here to help. RSVP to our next meeting or join the group to be notified of upcoming events and Atlassian Community news.
We are helping software developers and businesses bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs.
Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact us. 

Speakers

Michael Kimathi

Africa's Talking

Head of Developer Community Africa

Graham Ingokho Muhanga

Africa's Talking LLC

SVP Marketing

Loise Kimwe

AT WIT Lead

Douglas Mwangi

Freelancer

Software Developer

When

Saturday, February 11, 2023
5:30 AM – 3:00 PM UTC

Where

BSL 301, Chuka University, Main Campus
Ndagani Market along Nairobi - Meru Highway, just 2 Km after Chuka Town
Chuka, Kenya, 60400

Agenda

5:30 AM	Introductions	Introductions
6:30 AM	Atlassian Collaboration tools	Atlassian Collaboration tools
8:00 AM	Break	Break
9:30 AM	Africa's Talking APIs	Africa's Talking APIs
10:15 AM	Lunch	Lunch
10:45 AM	Hands-On hackathon	Hands-On hackathon 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.
1:30 PM	Demonstration and Wrap-up	Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption
3:00 PM	Networking	Networking