I find myself thinking a lot about helping people get into Tech through open source contribution and maintenance. This is an exciting opportunity space in Africa.

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Shifting mindset from being a consumer (nothing wrong with this) to being a contributor and eventually a creator is a challenging journey that’ll give skills that level you up really fast!
Imagine if you:

✅ Learn the fundamentals of the web by building small, real-life projects from the ground up (no libraries)

✅ Learn how to use open-source libraries to improve your productivity and ship faster.
✅ Pick your favorite libraries. Find ways to improve their documentation, help answer issues, fix bugs, etc.

✅ Learn the art of setting up existing projects from Github and navigating a codebase using tools like Sourcegraph or CodeTour
✅ Learn about automated testing, GitHub actions, GitHub issue templates, etc.

✅ Learn about writing documentation, markdown/MDX, and deploy previews.

✅ Learn how to bundle and ship NPM packages.
There's a whole new level of knowledge in open source that can be used as a training tool.

When people build and ship something they're proud of, no matter how small, it increases their confidence and curiosity.

There are a lot of opportunities that can be unlocked as a result.

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अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.

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