Community groups have been part of the global learning culture for over generations now. A lot of beginners and professionals engage in these community groups to learn, discuss and network on topics of interest. Fortunately, this culture has not left out Uganda, there a number of tech community groups that meet and network every month in Kampala to discuss the status score of technology in Uganda.
That said, allow me to present you some of the top best tech community groups in Uganda that will help you grow as a software developer or technology enthusiast.
It’s important to note that most of these tech community groups meet monthly in any of these innovation hubs to help each other advance technology wise and also getting to know each other.
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Facebook Developer Circles Kampala
Source: Developer Circles kampala medium
With over 2000 community members, Facebook Developer Circles Kampala is one of the largest tech community groups in Uganda that will help you kick start your career as a software developer. The community group organizes monthly meetups that bring together professional software developers, beginners and other persons of various disciplines to discuss new technology products by facebook.
Part of their activities includes hackathons, monthly meetups, software development learning sessions among others. There’s a lot to learn from this group once you become a member.
Who is eligible
Any person passionate about technology and software development is welcome to this tech community group.
How to Join
To join you need to attend at least any of their monthly meetups or engage in some of their activities. To get started simply join their Community Facebook group for updated information.
Google Developer Groups (GDG) Uganda
Source: GDG meetup
This is yet another largest community group which organizes one of the biggest annual developer meetup festival in Uganda on top of monthly and weekly meetups. The community group leads are based at outbox one of the top 10 best local innovation hubs in Uganda.
Google Developer Groups Uganda is part of the global Google Developer Group network and has got other subsidiary groups in Uganda to help it reach more software developers which include but not limited to GDG Kampala, Mbarara, Gulu, and Makerere.
GDG community group is aligned towards the mission of helping local software developers get acquainted with the latest Google technologies like Flutter, Firebase, Machine Learning, and others.
Besides the annual meetup, GDG organizes monthly and weekly meetups were software developers discuss new technology trends, products and any other topics of interest.
Who is eligible to Join
Everybody with passion in software development is eligible to join this tech community group.
How to Join
To join GDG Uganda, you need to attend at least any of their meetups and register as a member which is free. You can connect with this community via their Facebook group or meetup page.
WordPress Community Kampala
Source: WordPress kampala meetup page
This is another exciting tech community group in Uganda that will help you grow as an expert in WordPress. The community group boasts over 1000 member users as of 2018 WordCamp meetup. The community group meets to discuss issues related to using WordPress and blogging.
WordPress community group Kampala organizes monthly meetups and one annual WordCamp meetup were members help each other to become advanced professional users of WordPress.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about wordpress. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups or get to join their whatsapp chat group
WordPress Community Entebbe
Source: Entebbe WordPress meetup page
Just like WordPress community group Kampala, this community group meets in Entebbe to discuss and talk about issues concerned with WordPress. To join this community group you have to fulfill all the above conditions as indicated WordPress community Kampala.
Python Group Kampala (PyKLA)
This is a community group for python lovers in Uganda, members share about python related technologies and latest trends. The community group currently has a WhatsApp group where members chat and talk about python.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about python. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
PyKLA Ladies
Designed to be the safe havens for ladies passionate about python, the community group organizes monthly meetups targeted towards women and girls to help them grow career wise as better python developers.
Who is eligible
Ladies are eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about python. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
Kotlin User Group Uganda
Kotlin was made the official programming language for designing android mobile applications during the Google I/O viewing party of 2017 and this community group will help you from writing your first kotlin program to growing as a kotlin developer.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about kotlin technologies. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
R User Group Kampala
R is one of the most popular data analysis and machine learning programming language. As an R programmer, you don’t need to suffer writing code in R, the R community group will help you grow in your career professionally.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about R. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
Ruby and Rails Girls
Ruby and Rails Girls is another interesting tech community group in Uganda that will help you level up as software developer. The community has got a major taste for Ruby and Rails technologies and ladies even though men are also welcome to take part.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about Ruby and Rails technologies. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
Safeboda Developer Community Group
Courtesy of the safeboda (ride-hailing startup in Uganda), the community group meets monthly at the safeboda offices to discuss technology trends that can help local developers develop technologies like those used in the safeboda app.
The community group has been up now for a short while and has organized meetups on important topics like distributed systems, safeboda system architecture among others.
To be part of their meetups, simply follow their meetup page here.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate software developers. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
Uganda Bloggers Community
This one of the first and oldest community groups that combine together content publishers commonly known as bloggers in Uganda. The community group meets on a monthly basis to discuss trends in the blogging industry, how publishers can monetize their online creatives among others.
To understand what they do and when they do it, follow this community on their Facebook and Twitter forums.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about online publishing. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
Attend any of their monthly meetups and be registered as community group member.
MTN Momo Developers
This is a community group for developers using the MTN Momo API, the group has got a WhatsApp group were users discuss issues related to the MTN Momo API and also help each other integrate the API.
Who is eligible
Anybody is eligible to join the community group as long as they’re passionate about MTN Momo Api. It’s absolutely free to Join the community.
How to join
To join this community groups simply visit the mtn API web page and select the support option, use the WhatsApp link on this page to join the community group.
Andela Community
Andela is well known for its community activities such as LevelUp that have helped Uganda local software developers learn new software engineering skills. Besides that, the startup organizes monthly meetups at their offices were developers and members discuss new technology trends and best software engineering practices.
To keep up with any of their user group meetups info simply follow them on their Twitter or Facebook pages.
Note: We shall keep on updating this blog post to reflect on all the other community groups we may not have got the chance to feature on this list.
Conclusion
Our core mission is to inform and engage the technology community in Uganda through our web platform, we are committed towards the advancement of technology in Uganda and as such we recognize all major key players that have put in effort to ensure that this happens, for those looking forward to taking part in these community group meetups, we have secured a place on our website were we shall be sharing the latest events scheduled to happen for your favorite community groups.
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