My Notes from Rapid River Meetup Abuja on 28th Oct 2023

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Communication: ability to understand and convey complex concept... remotely

• communication: where people in nigeria tend to fall off

local community

• schooling
• public speaking

global online

• online sites where things are being conceptualised are a good place to learn how to communicate such cnocepts

  • look at PRs, Issues, how they clarify concepts and communicate problems and solutions
  • rails and apache issues manageent sites are great examples

• use all media to understand

• think live captions on google meet - never works 100% when nigerians are talking at normal pace

Collaboration

local community

• at work
• in person mentoring

global online

• open source development
  • the fact that you've figured out the communication and the collaboration to get your PR merged is a HUGE plus
  • it shows you care about free software
• stackoverflwo
  • wide range of questions, you help people and people help you
• online mentoring
• blogpost - write a blogpost

Connection: ability to find or create opportunities to use your skills

• ability to find or create opportunities to use your skills

• interships

  • good avenue for such a costly is internetbrands levelup
  • 23 out of 30 get through succesfully end to end of

• project work

  • fiverr, upwork, guru

• Staff Aug

  • rapid river, cactus code

Next Steps:

internships:

Pros

• direct mentoring
• make future connections
• can turn into long-term position

Cons

• covers basic material
• unpaid, low paid

project work:

Pros

• easier to find clients
• guaranteed pay
• resonable overhead
• develop online reputation

Cons

-compettition

• project treadmill
• banking ripoffs

staff augmentation:

Pros

Cons

Conviction: ability to navigate through difficult or unclear situations

links

• rrsoft.co
• levelupschool.dev
• email [email protected]
• cactus-code.com