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YorubaName is holding a webinar for developers on July 23

Events

14th July 2016

In the spirit of all things open source, YorubaName is holding a developer webinar at 4pm on July 23 (that’s next Saturday, if you don’t want to check your calendar). It will be facilitated by Dadepo Aderemi, the project’s lead developer and one of the its first volunteers. He’ll walk everyone through the application, how each of its parts […]

The YorubaName.com team are going on a roadtrip to Lagos and Ibadan

Events

Tola Agunbiade

20th June 2016

You can meet up with them and ask them anything

Yorubaname.com has gone opensource, codebase now on GitHub

News

Tola Agunbiade

31st May 2016

Now everyone can contribute to the development

Yoruba Keyboard language pack is now available for Mac and Windows users

News, Products

Ibukun Taiwo

10th August 2015

The Yorubaname team have released a language pack which enables Mac and Windows users type the yoruba language with less ado.

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