Last week I got the chance to be in Rwanda, Kigali for product innovation workshop for 6 days, it was so insightful, at the workshop 15 countries with 100+ people's participated and all with startup of their own, honestly I have never been with this many number of CEO's at the same place 😅, I learnt a lot from everyone.

How many of you know about the Jasiri program 🤔?

Jasiri is a programme of Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies that invests in, guides and supports entrepreneurs and early stage startups who benefit society by creating high impact businesses on the African continent(https://jasiri.org/)

There is also business incubation program at CMU so if anyone wants to apply for it use this link: Business Incubation Program

Is there anyone here interested in 3D website design?

📢 Official Call for Teams: ETCPC 2025 Registration Now Open! 🎓💻

The 10th Ethiopian Collegiate Programming Contest (ETCPC 2025) is officially accepting team registrations. This is your opportunity to represent Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia's most prestigious coding competition.

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📅 Date: August 3–4, 2025
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Are you ready to turn code into climate action?

In partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, the Ethiopian Youth Entrepreneurs Association (EYEA) is proud to host this year’s #RebootTheEarth Hackathon in Addis Ababa!

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The ARCHER air taxi is an all-electric flying vehicle that takes off and lands vertically, designed to beat traffic and revolutionize urban travel 🤔

Today's wait for a taxi is really frustrating and I was just thinking that we really need this😭

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I felt like I haven't been active in this channel...although I am back now👀 and will have consistent post and resource share and obviously some vent after now on

So back to where we stop this year was really different for me I got the chance to meet different amazing people, work on different projects with teams and also start working on some innovative ideas which were stepping way for many more opportunities...

This week I was working on deploying to real server with my team for a project we were working with my campus and real talk it wasn't really nuclear physics thingy as I expected 😅, although for the current status of my skill it was new experience for me, will share details on what I learned from it

I have documented the problems we encountered during deployment and also things to know before we start deployment, which i learnt through the process also, this might be silly things for experienced one's but if you are new to it you might take a long time to figure out what's happening there...

So if u like to check you can get the details down here on my Medium post:

https://medium.com/@semrekalkidan/how-i-deployed-a-full-stack-mern-web-app-on-a-real-server-and-what-i-learned-d3c5c4213e34