Episode 118: Insights from CHAOSScon Africa, Open Source Community Africa Festival, and KCD Nigeria

Sep 4, 2025

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CHAOSScast – Episode 118

In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Harmony welcomes guests Maryblessing Okolie, Ileriayo Adebiyi, and Joan Njeri, to discuss their experiences and key moments from recent open source community events in Lagos, Nigeria. These events include CHAOSScon Africa, Open Source Community Africa Festival (OSCAFEST), and KCD Nigeria. The guests share their backgrounds and roles within the open source community, their experiences organizing and attending the events, and the importance of building relationships. They also discuss impactful talks and sessions from the events, highlighting topics such as open source program offices (OSPOs), onboarding systems for open source projects, and the role of passion in the tech industry. Hit download now!

[00:00:43] Harmony and our guests introduce themselves and their backgrounds.

[00:02:54] The guests tell us which conferences they attended.

[00:04:22] Maryblessing reflects on her experience organizing CHAOSScon Africa.

[00:08:48] Ileriayo, one of the organizers of KCD Nigeria, shares his experiences with planning the event that took two years.

[00:11:31] Joan shares her point of view as an attendee of OSCAFEST, being inspired by the energy and collaboration at the events and built partnerships with Eclipse Foundation and others for Kenya projects.

[00:13:24] Harmony and our guests discuss their favorite talks they attended.

[00:21:46] Joan and Ileriayo explain the cultural exchanges they experienced at the events (e.g. food, Pidgin language, networking, traffic, and cross-continent collaboration.)

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