Omotola Eunice Omotayo
Omotola Eunice Omotayo is the community manager at Outreachy, a paid remote Internship in Open Source and Open Science for people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.
Omotola is passionate about empowering women and marginalized populations, primarily through technology. She leads the community manager team at She Code Africa, a non-profit organization that celebrates and empowers young Girls and Women in Technology across Africa.
Omotola is an experienced community manager who has worked in diverse and inclusive teams since 2019. Omotola uses she/her pronouns. She understands how communities work and creates an extraordinarily welcoming and safe environment for community users. She has successfully managed community brands and an online presence in technology, business, and development. She speaks passionately about Community, DEI, Women empowerment, Open Source, and Open Payment.
Session
Open source has widely grown to allow different tech career paths to enhance projects with their skills & provide jobs for those interested in working with open source. Open source contribution programs provide & build interested persons' capacity to become professionals.
Active community participation helps enhance career growth.
Outreachy is a paid and remote internship OS program that empowers, grows talents, and prepares them for career growth. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.
At the end of this session, beginners and persons on the intermediate level will have enough knowledge of how they can build a career in open source; experts will also get more insights on how they can contribute to the advancement of open source contribution by giving back to the community as a mentor helping new contributors understand the open source ecosystem and contribution.