Open Source Summit Kampala 2022
Today i had the privilege of attending the second Open Source Summit of Kampala. The numbers were great possibly about 70 young people. The event was slated for the Saturday 9th of April, 2022 at about 10PM. A lot if the hype around the event was created months ago but the major push came from the social media page on twitter that is alive and active. When i attended i admit to expecting some tables devoted to the Open Source giants of the age such as a Linux Community with all the major players and hearing about their work. As a Fedora, Open Suse and Ubuntu user myself i almost wanted to go with a copy of Linux on a stick that i recently installed in a dual boot environment. The first session was hosted by Solomon Opio who brings with him a wealth of experience having started of with Outbox Hub. He is currently working with Innovation Village which played host to the event and sponsored a great part of it. What was interesting was to hear his perspectives about the tech space in gene