The Mycelium Network Podcast with Vuyisile Ndlovu - Episode 019

In this week's episode, I speak with Vuyisile Ndlovu, a Python developer and AWS-certified cloud practitioner from Zimbabwe. We talk about open-source, the challenges developers face in Africa, and why contributions to open-source are low in Africa and brainstorm ideas to improve it. Vuyisile also shares some great tips on deploying your ideas to the web. This was a fascinating conversation I am privileged to share with you all.

In his own words

Hello! My name is Vuyisile (voo-yee-sea-lay), and I’m a Software Developer. I enjoy writing, speaking, traveling, and cutting wood. I develop back-end web applications and APIs, usually in Python and Django. I do my best work when I work remotely.

Links

• Vuyisile Ndlovu on the web

• Vuyisile Ndlovu on Twitter

• Vuyisile Ndlovu on GitHub

• FirefoxOS

• The Ndebele Language and people

• The Java language

• The Python language

• The .NET language

• The Go language

• The Rust language

• The percentage of open-source contributions from Africa is only 2-3%.

• What is an incubator?

• OpenUP

• The rise of open source to spur agile digital government

• A mobile application may enhance Cape Agulhas’ smart city vision

• DeveloperToolchest

• Ourbackyard

• EcoCash

• Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity

• PyPi in a box

• Internet in a box

• What is DevOps?

• Keypass

• HashiCorp Vault

• Divio-Django Invoice

• Woodturning on Youtube

Recorded using Riverside and produced by Mechanical Ink.