CHAOSS Africa Technical Writers, March 5, 2026 ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uI8JNZunL1g/maxresdefault.jpg) 🔗 **Source:** [CHAOSS Africa Technical Writers, March 5, 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8JNZunL1g) Okay, the meeting is recording now. So, welcome back. I'm pretty sure that we all had like an amazing week so far and I hope we have like a very good weekend. How's it How's it going? How's it going for everyone so far? It's the week hectic. >> Really hectic and stressful for me. Okay, sorry about that. Anyone wants to take a bite before I go ahead. Okay. Yeah, let's go. So before we get started to know what what we have done like so far, I'll just give you guys a rundown of what was discussed last week. The call agenda for last week was the chaos African website. One of the issues that we had was the website is usually hidden right in the chaos.com community/lochapter section of the global website and we I think the agreement was for the software development working group or focus group to take up that tax and then bring it forward. Technical writer would um technical writers focus group would would help or aid in copyrightiting and all of those things which is very good. Right. So the very big question I'm going to ask is has this actually started which is one of the thing we should know like is there a meeting that has been held planned so far anybody from the working group I think uh I think are you with us or sitting >> hello sorry you were calling hear me? >> Yes. I was asking if if like >> I can hear you. Can you hear me? >> The new the new website or the moving of the website for the chaos Africa website. Have any conversation been had so far? >> Um the setup is going on. Um but I don't have um information so much information about it but I know that setup is going on. >> Yeah, I can hear you. So who's chairing it? Who's leading it >> for now? It's Ruth. >> Okay. >> Are they required designs? Are we working with WordPress or we are you know building from scratch? >> Okay, sorry. We are building from scratch but um I told Ruth that we needed copy so the copy would guide how the design would go and she mentioned in the last meeting that she would actually reach out to you to work on the copy but I don't know if she did that and she also created like a slack channel or would I say group for everybody that indicated interest on working on the website so I think every other information you get it from root Okay. Which means that the website design has not even started, I guess. >> Yeah, it has not started because we've not gotten copy yet. >> Okay, perfect. So, hasn't reached out to me and I'm just hearing this from the meeting. I did not read the meeting minutes. I just can't and I'm seeing my name there. So, Monday we would be able to get a copy, right? Monday or Wednesday at most next week. I'll add it in the meeting notes. we're able to get a copy that would direct us across but and I think I'm not also in the channel so if you can mention my name in the channel so that I'll be added or so that I will be prompted to get added so I would send the document there and everybody gets to like make a comment and review it. How about that? Yes. >> Sorry I didn't I didn't get what you just said. Sorry. So I said, >> can you can you say it again, please? >> The copy >> on Wednesday next week. >> Okay, that's fine. >> Yeah, but I'm not in the channel. Like I said, I'm just hearing it for the first time. >> Yeah. So you can just tell root to add it to the channel. >> Okay, I guess the channel is private. Okay, I'll do that. I guess we have headway for that. While we're on it, right? No, I said we are going to Okay. While we're on it, I would want to ask if uh Adena, how is it going with the DI budgeting working group? >> Um sorry, I won't be able to give up this now. Please, I am actually in transit so I'm not coordinated. Let me just listen in for today. Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. While Okay. Uh Brian, Brian, please can you give feedback on your trip to Namibia, your talk? How was it? Yeah. The conference in Bon Namibia. >> Okay. Hi everyone. I hope you can hear me. >> Yes, thank you. >> No. Okay. Okay. Um the conference was nice. Um I mean it's always been nice from from the feedback, but it was particularly nice. Um my workshop went really well. Um all of the attendees were able to follow along and we had um a couple of folks going all through the end and also a couple of folks coming in for questions even after the talk. Um I also did um um a talk about what we do at Kos Africa and also a couple of a couple of folks were interested. Um I did share I did share the the link and the QR code to to join um to join the Slack channel. So definitely probably we're going to to see like a couple of folks a couple of folks coming through. But I think what hit me during during that is most of the folks were like where do I go like if I want to learn something because maybe most of them were not able to catch to catch the the the link or the QR code but I think maybe what is kindly been working on this is the chaos Africa website that would also be a good place where when you're at conferences or something it would be nice to direct people there so that they aware because some of them were like okay I'm interested in this working group I want to join this working group where can I get more details about them and sadly where I could just take them was either Slack or GitHub which might be so uh scary for someone who just wants to start and they're like okay they have not used Slack maybe they have not used GitHub before but I think now that we're setting up the the chaos Africa website probably in that landing page it could be nice now to also take conference attendees there so yeah um that's pretty much it was a lovely trip um NAB is always like the community is always nice it's very receptive and most of them were interested in in Chaos Africa though. Yep. >> So just to get you clearly so I know what I'm putting down on the notes. Uh I didn't get the topic that you spoke on. I would love you to like drop it at like the comments or in message up on Zumia so that I don't make mistake again. Then secondly the feedback when you share about chaos Africa people have not been able to like go around especially on the website to get details of various working groups what they're doing. So you also recommending that the new website should be able to capture that right? >> Yes. Yes. just a place where like it could be like just a wiki where someone can get for example if someone is interested in the data science working group they can just go there and learn about what we do what are the current projects you the data science working group is working on or maybe the other different working groups um inside chaos Africa maybe and also just around chaos Africa because most of them were like okay I want to join the community and maybe I'm a technical writer or I'm a product manager or I'm a product designer and all that where exactly can I contribute how can I contribute? It was hard for me to um off the bat in my mind have what each working group is doing cuz the attendees were very diverse. So if you have somewhere like that on the website, I'll be like, "Oh, just scan this Q code." You'd go to our website and you can definitely see what the the working these working groups are currently building or working on. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Please just send me the topic you spoke on message. Yeah, that would be great. >> Just uh the topic was just building um multi- aent systems with Python. So yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Building multi- aent systems with Python. Sorry, I'm taking notes. >> No worries, it's fine. Thank you. Uh the next feedback I would want to get is we spoke about um okay just for announcement sake uh we last week they also spoke about having small meet up across different areas but this would be done like per quarter right I don't have a lot of context on that because I wasn't in the meeting but I think it's something that we could start discussing in our various working groups or focus groups to see how we could partake on these things as a community, right? It's going to be good to start getting data on your working group so that we know who is at this location or who is at that location so that we will be able to maximize meeting ourselves together which would allow us to more. Yeah. Thank you. And before I move forward is there has there been any development in your various working groups or the projects that you are leading particular anything exciting for us to know and the in the education project what's coming what's already working all of that any feedback are you with us >> education working group >> sorry what we're doing is like completing some already going courses and recording them and uh we we are trying to um go into a second phase for education working group um which might we be involving or us bringing in uh some stuff about AI and the rest of them but that is just uh still in the planning phase. is when um I just spoke with had a chat with on that with Matt about it. So when um all the plan is in place we bring it we can be able to give more uh information about that and how that would go with education uh project. So but at the moment we are just like completing those courses. We started um also advocating for new one case you have a course you feel like we can add up and education project or you have some things you might want us to feature some courses you've worked on or recorded or uh you might want us to feature in education project. So you can chat us uh discuss with us on it and then we can see how we can bring it up. Also the what is going on at the moment is um we're writing a second blog about u education project and we're calling all those that have contributed in one way or the other our review in one or the other to be part of it and also record themselves at the author of that blog. So if you're interested you are feel free to join us in education group or I've already shared the the link just feel free to contribute to it and that's all we are doing at the moment. Thank you. >> Okay thank you very much. Can you hear me? Yeah thank you very much. Especially the blog that's working and I like the fact that you guys are also trying to embed the AI. I don't know if you people would also the team would also consider Ospose. I don't know if there's anything about Ospose yet, but I think it's a good one to also look at. So, a good topic to also look at. >> Um, let me know how you're thinking about that then see how we can bring that up. >> Okay. Thank you. I'll do that. Any other person? any other working group. Uh the design team is there anything design working group unice? Um, currently nothing yet, but I guess when we start working on the website, we'll have something. I mean, aside the fact that um, we worked on something for Elizabeth last week that we're supposed to work on last year, but she actually provided information last week. I'll be this week and we worked on it. Yeah. Aside that we do not have >> sorry >> would you be able to tell me what you guys did for Elizabeth? >> Um I think it was something about timeline or achieve I think something related to like the achievement or timeline. I don't know exactly what that thing is called but it's >> if you're in the chaos like Africa designers group you'll see it or channel rather you'll see it. I think it was like a milestone stating the time that chaos achieved different milestones like maybe a new working group was created or something was done. So she just wanted us to update the design with the current things that have happened up from um I think 1023 to like last year. So we worked on that and that's all we've been able to do for now. But when we start working on the website we'll have like updates for you guys. Thank you. Sure. website project coming up. Uh any other person? >> Sorry, I have a question. Right. Um, so I'm I'm talking about this with already because she's the one handling the social media although I spoke about it in the last meeting that it would be nice for us to have Instagram and Tik Tok pages and we sort of maybe create content around open source and when we have like our hangouts we can also create content from that. I wanted to ask if anybody here is open to maybe being part of it. So if it works, we're thinking of doing something maybe once in a quarter or once every month. We meet somewhere and but create all the content that we may post for that month, right? Me, I'm open to doing cuz I'm a content creator and I enjoy like making videos. Yeah. Um would have to come obviously because she's the one in charge of social media, but I wanted to ask if any other person is open to the idea and would want to be a part of it. So if you're open to that, please let me know or you can let all you know. Thank you. >> My question is going to be uh would would everyone need to meet in person? How about people that in different cities as well? >> Well, that's something you can consider too. So if they're open to it, they can also maybe record their video. I'm sure maybe there's something you want people to know about open source. It doesn't even have to be serious. You can just apply storytelling. So if they are not open to meeting us when we want to do it, you can make your video and send it to us cuz I I just feel like um if we have more social media presence, we will do more, right? because a lot of people do not know about open source and how they can contribute and people consume more videos than they will read blogs or articles or stuff like >> just to also suggest I think I've mentioned it before just to also s suggest right I also think that focus groups and working group can actually take advantage of this as well you don't have to do too much a 30 seconds or 1 minute video explaining what the focus group is and what they are doing is also a good way to tell people to like join chaos and like get started. So I'm saying this because I think uh pea can embed it right in the education project as well. Maybe a new course is out. Just one template that we could use stating that a new course is out and what they need to know about the course, a link where they can actually go and you know listen or view the course thereabouts. And I also think if we are given the opportunity of we can make it Instagram and Tik Tok friendly, it's also a thing that the podcast can actually take advantage of as well. basically using it as like a marketing and a yeah a marketing tool for the project marketing or publication too for like chaos entirely. I don't know just putting it out there. So I hope that helps. I hope this good. Okay. Thank you very much. Unice. Uh Brian, is there anything interesting from the Is there anything interesting with people with disability? Don't know if it's still there. >> Um not really. I know we've been picking up slowly. Uh but hopefully um the coming few um Okay. Hope hope you can hear me. It's giving me an Yeah, can you hear me? >> Yeah. So, nothing nothing much really. Not that I'm aware of. Uh, but I know we've been picking up slowly, but probably as we pick up through this month, we probably have some activities coming along. So, hopefully by the next meeting, we'll have some updates to share. For us in the technical writers focus group, we have not really been doing so much. We've just been there. However, in our agenda, we had like two things mapped out. We wanted to help review the or but I think a lot of work is going on in the working group like for us like step to look at the document. So would allow that work go ahead and consume. So far we are intending or we have actually started working on a resource bank for technical writers where we would just drop links and we could use that as a markdown file on that technical class focus group file in chaos Africa repo. However, we just that in the Google docs and we hope we would keep progressing on it. Then also what got to our table now is like the copyrightiting for the websites. We probably structure it like a POD divide it into different pages and what we intend to see there and then allow the designers to like play around their creativity. We see how we could also you know put text there as well in terms of number of characters as expected. So I don't know units should we work on like something like a P and allow you to like decide that I know that the max we can do is like 50 to 100 characters in certain areas when we're trying to highlight key things and then when people click on it then a page would pop up to give a full story or full things behind that particular thing like a project right I don't know if that would work Unless >> I didn't even know you referring to me. So, I know you said something about Pi, but is it like a what kind of product is it? Is it maybe a website, web app, mobile app or what? >> It's for the website basically. We're just going to break it down into pages and the sections that are going to be in each of those. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, please the So, are you asking if maybe the copy for the website should be more like a P? Is that what you're asking? >> Yes. Yeah, I mean if you can come up with that that would be better. >> Yeah. So that because I know that uh I don't know how the design would look right but I know that the PD can serve as a guideline then you would now use uh placeholders in certain areas so that we will now use those length of copies like length of characters to create the actual copy that would be there based off the design. Yeah, I do. >> Okay. So, I'll add that. I would get that across to you like I said Wednesday and we're going to start moving forward from there. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other thing I've missed out or anything exciting in your focus group working group that you would want to share with us? Okay, in the absence of none, right, I think we can call it a day. Thank you everyone for joining today's session. Please do well to have like a lovely week. 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