Laura Mugeha
Laura is a geospatial engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya, interested in the intersection of open data, FOSS, and development. She is a regional ambassador with YouthMappers, where she supports chapters across Eastern Africa with a focus on Kenya and Tanzania. During her free time, she volunteers with the OSM and OSGeo communities, locally and globally,
Laura Mugeha
Session
Between December 2020 to March 2021, the OSM Kenya team ran a project whose focus was on growing the OSM community locally: both in terms of membership and diversity. The project was supported through the Facebook and HOTOSM community impact microgrants. In this session, we will share about the community, project: from ideation(community health), motivation to implementation. This will include the activities involved, our experience, challenges that we encountered, and the lessons learned.