hey @baderdean ahlan beek 
I am follwing the discussion with interest, I am not also an IT expert, I am no opensource programmer ( but I respect them 
- not sure if you got the joke, it’s a bit too Egyptian ) But I am more interested in the opensource community and community development in general.
as in many cases such communities where a lot of beneficial development is being made fail to connect with the “outer world” and having mediators or open source enthusiast is kinda helpful in getting the ideas used out there.
I agree with you in general, I come from Egypt, and for the past almost 4 years a I am in between Germany and Egypt and I meet a lot of IT people migrating to work in start ups in Berlin. that’s due to several reasons mainly economic or in search for a better life quality in general.
@alberto mentioned that [quote=“alberto, post:2, topic:6786”]
A great open source project is made of time. When time is expensive, it gets more difficult to develop it.
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that’s true, may be one of the reasons that the open source community in Africa ( or the northern African region) is that people are busy with making a living, so as long as they don’t develop FLOSS at work, there is a limited time after ( very limited more than in Europe and there are not much options or alternatives as in Europe ) . so at this point communities take more time to grow.
I am interested to have a deeper look at the opensource communities in the Region, for example analyzing the African network on github ( check the whole analysis done by baak on civic hacking here ) the communities in Africa are divided some are close to the European groups and Ushahidi is not that connected to my surprise.
but it would be interesting to see the African- African communication and how is it done ? who is doing it ? how can we use this to get more into qualitative analysis and see what is needed to connect them together ?
I might be interested in the boring analysis part ! but I can see the need for the communities ( in general ) to look upon themselves and check their development through the data of their interactions lenses ( I believe edgeryders is a good example in looking upon oneself with different tools like open ethnography - check the documentation of the community call about the graphryder )
so what are you planing exactly, what is your strategy to connect and create a sense of community ? I didn’t follow this
and btw [quote=“baderdean, post:1, topic:6786”]
And opensource softwares are free as in speech and most in the time as in lemonade (no beer thanks 
for God sake.
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nice one ( I should have used this joke in my thesis )