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<span class="eyebrow page-head__index">community / join_in</span>
<h1 class="display-xl">There's a <span class="italic">chair</span> for you here.</h1>
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DevRW is open to anyone shipping code in Rwanda — bootcamp graduates, self-taught engineers,
university students, ten-year veterans. We don't gate-keep. We do, however, expect you to be
kind, curious, and willing to share what you know.
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<h2 class="display-l">What you get when you <span class="italic">join.</span></h2>
<p class="body mt-24">No swag, no certificates. Access to the people, projects, and conversations that move you forward.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.1</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Collaborate & learn</h3>
<p class="card__body">Work alongside experienced developers on real production code. PRs reviewed. Mistakes welcome.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.2</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Job opportunities</h3>
<p class="card__body">When companies ask us for engineers, we route the role to the community first. No hidden middle-man cuts.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.3</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Events & meetups</h3>
<p class="card__body">Hack nights, talks, and occasional workshops — mostly in Kigali, sometimes online. Loose, social, useful.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.4</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Open source projects</h3>
<p class="card__body">Contribute to the Rwanda Locations Library, AI tooling, and other community-led projects. Real commits, real review.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.5</span>
<span class="ai-badge">ai · study group</span>
<h3 class="card__title">AI study circle</h3>
<p class="card__body">A dedicated WhatsApp group for papers, prompts, open model evals, agent design clinics, and the AI side of building products in Africa.</p>
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<span class="card__num">01.6</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Mentorship</h3>
<p class="card__body">Pair with someone further along. Ask the dumb question in #help. Share what you know in #share. A working WhatsApp — conversations, not announcements.</p>
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<span class="ai-badge">community focus area</span>
<h2 class="display-l mt-24">The <span class="italic">AI</span> conversation in DevRW.</h2>
<p class="body mt-24">
AI shows up in nearly every WhatsApp message right now. Members are building, studying, and shipping
with it — and the community is structured to support that, not just talk about it.
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<span class="card__num">02.1</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Weekly paper threads</h3>
<p class="card__body">A rotating member picks a paper, summarises it, and opens it for discussion. Light commitment, deep payoff.</p>
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<span class="card__num">02.2</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Model evaluations</h3>
<p class="card__body">We test open models on real African-context tasks — Kinyarwanda translation, USSD bot reasoning, OCR on handwritten registers. Results get shared back.</p>
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<span class="card__num">02.3</span>
<h3 class="card__title">Build-along sessions</h3>
<p class="card__body">Occasional hands-on sessions where members pair up to build something — a RAG system, an agent, a fine-tune — and ship a public write-up.</p>
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<h2 class="display-l">Drop your <span class="italic">details.</span></h2>
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We'll keep you in the loop about events, send you the WhatsApp invite, and — if it fits — route
opportunities your way. Your data stays with us. No spam.
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<h2 class="display-l">What members tend to <span class="italic">say.</span></h2>
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<p class="testimonial__quote">My first real PR review happened here. The comments were patient, specific, and they made me a better engineer.</p>
<div class="testimonial__attr"><strong>Recurring theme</strong> · #help in whatsapp</div>
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<p class="testimonial__quote">It's where I find work that doesn't insult me. The gigs routed through DevRW tend to be transparent on rate, scope, and timeline.</p>
<div class="testimonial__attr"><strong>Recurring theme</strong> · #jobs in whatsapp</div>
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