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Winner Emeto who is the current OSCAIMO lead in Imo State also gave a general overview of what Open Source means, he stressed the fact that giving the public access to any intellectual property does not make it an open source material, he said that for any intellectual property to be open source, it has to be LICENSED with an open source license. He went further to introduce the attendees to different open source license and how to license any intellectual property. He ended this section by introducing the next speakers to the audience.
This section really got the participants active and happy as the learnt that one can actually make money from open source. But it didn’t end there, he went further to encourage the participants not to look at what they will gain from open source but rather they should look at how far they can go with open source and also he encouraged them to contribute to open source projects. He made sure they understand that in one way or the other, all the participants are using open source materials, but more curators are needed to bring Africa to the lime light.
The next speaker in the person of Amadi Austin came on stage with a more interesting juice, "Why Open Source"(The economic importance of open source). This wowed the audience as non-believed that there is a correlation between Economics and Open Source. He went further to by breaking it down to Micro and Macro economic importance.
He also laid out few points developers could key to for motivations. He stated that many software engineers are always scared of making their products open source because of theft. he went further to share one of his experience with a developer he met that was building an interesting product, he asks him if the product was open source so he can contribute to it by adding more feature as the projects interests him, but he said no giving reasons that someone might steal his project idea and probably publish/deploy it before him. Austin ended his talk with a note that we shouldn’t be scared of making our projects open source that nobody can steal what’s in the mind.
OSCA IMO is the second Open Source meetup I have attended said the last speaker, coming from Port Harcourt where tech events communities seem to be a little more announced after Lagos in Nigeria, I decided that I had to be a part of the exciting experience. I had first met Samson Goddy some months back when he first talked about Open Source and how it can be beneficial to every developer regardless of your level or stack or level of proficiency, it was then I was internally convinced that Open Source is the way. He talked about Why We Should Embraced Open Sources.
He started by sharing his own personal experience and how Open Source has been a lifesaver in his software engineering journey. he told us that we don't need to be pros before trying to build for Open Source or contributing to it. Finally, he introduced us to 