Laura Mugeha
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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,

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Laura Mugeha

Session

07-10
20:45
20min
Community growth: What we learned about improving the membership and diversity of OSM Kenya through the community impact microgrants.
Laura Mugeha

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.

Community and Foundation
Track 1 - Talks