This document discusses community building in Ilorin and some lessons learned. It describes how the author and his friends started in 2017 with a passion for tech but faced challenges with limited resources. Creating a community provides opportunities to make good friends, gain credibility, and access jobs, internships, and opportunities. As a community organizer, it is important to consistently update and improve the community, acquire new skills to drive it forward, and be accountable by sharing its stories. The document also lists 10 active tech communities currently in Ilorin.

1. Ilorin
Community Building
Mindset
Kamaldeen Kehinde
MP, MALhub

2. “The one thing that you
refuse to stop doing
consistently will
eventually pay off.”

3. I learned the above reality from the
reflection on what happened to me in
a few years. In 2017 when I started my
tech career journey, it was a tough
time for me and my friends but we
believed that our new path (tech)
would pay off eventually.

4. Our Passion
We were all young, energetic and
hungry for success, we all wanted to do
things in superpower mode but the
limited resources and demographic
barrier was a major challenge towards
achieving these goals. We drained
ourselves thinking about the big things
even when some of them seemed really
unrealistic.

5. How I Started
With A Small
Team, My Friends

6. Creating a community is not just it,
the beauty is the good friends you
would eventually make along the line,
a lot of people would love to
associate with you because of your
credibility, and you can easily get
recommendations for jobs and other
opportunities like internships,
traveling, grants and a whole lot of
good stuff.
Adeola Olaleye, WTM Lead Ilorin

7. 3 things you should start doing as a community organizer.
1. Update: We all want to create a community, but not
everyone is patient enough to see a community thrive in
challenging moments. The only choice you have is to
keep working on what you have to improve as time goes
on.
2. Learn: The only way you can drive a community forward
is to acquire the right skill sets, don’t be a quack
organizer. Learn more with the right resources.
3. Accountability: Be more accountable for what is going
on around you, and tell your stories to the world. Your
good work deserves more reward, improve your
analytics skill to forecast your community’s future.

8. 1. GDG Ilorin
2. Kwarabuild Tech Community
3. MALhub Tech Community
4. Women Tech Maker Ilorin
5. KWISN (Kwara Innovation Support
Network)
6. Atlassian Ilorin Community
7. Friends of Figma Ilorin
8. Kuagi Tech Community
9. I4G (Unilorin, Kwasu)
10. GDSC (Unilorin, Kwasu, KP)
Tech Communities In Ilorin

10. Ilorin
Thank you!
Kamaldeen Kehinde
MP, MALhub
https://talkbase.io/kenkarmah
https://ingressive.org/how-my-role-as-
a-campus-ambassador-landed-me-my-
dream-job/
Social handle: @kenkarmah