• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Fedora at Kirinyaga University - Docs workshop Kirinyaga University students group photo in this series 1. • Fedora at Murang’a University 2. • Flock to Fedora 2025 Recap: Streaming from Kenya 3. • Fedora at Kirinyaga University - Docs workshop We did it again, Fedora at Kirinyaga university in Kenya. • This time, we didn’t just introduce what open sourceis- we showed students how toparticipateand actually contribute in real time. • Many students had heard of open source before, but were not sure how to get started or where they could fit.
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- Fedora hosted a documentation workshop at Kirinyaga University in Kenya, aiming to turn students’ familiarity with open‑source concepts into real contributions. Participants learned that Fedora welcomes non‑technical roles such as writing, design, translation, and testing, and then practiced editing docs, opening issues, and submitting pull requests. By the event’s end, several students had pushed changes to the Fedora Docs repository, demonstrating that contribution can happen immediately. The session was led by Fedora mentors and local community members, and the organizers announced plans for additional events to deepen Kenya’s engagement with the Fedora project.
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