Samson Goddy

Why am I on this list?


I am from Nigeria, and I live in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I have been in open source for more than half my life as a high 
school student. Through the One Laptop Per Child initiative, I understood and got drawn into the ecosystem and started my 
journey. I made my way up from joining open source outreach programs to joining Sugar Labs as a core member. 


Growing up, I knew something was missing because of the less effort to educate open source within my community. To grow 
that, I made it a mission to support, educate and collaborate with people around me to define open source with complete 
diversity in just any skillsets and Africa. 


I have been advocating for open source for around 8-9 years now, co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, created events 
to help me reach more people. 


I can do these things without being on the Board for OSI, but I have the opportunity to bring more people around the 
culture, as I recently did with many efforts from Africa, like the Open Source Festival. 


About two years ago, I worked with OSI to make Open Source Community Africa an affiliate member, automatically bringing 
more education to the continent that is currently growing rapidly. 


I believe in openness, education, collaboration, and real diversity; this is something that I will bring to the Board.


contact:
email: [email protected]
https://twitter.com/samson_goddy
samsongoddy.com