Our work

Projects that turn ideas into useful infrastructure.

Undergraduate students at Open UG Labs build open-source software, explore applied research, and contribute to digital systems that matter at Makerere University and beyond.

Current projects

7 projects

Makerere CS Website

Digital infrastructure

Maintaining and improving the digital home of Makerere University's Department of Computer Science.

Conveyor CI

Developer tools

An open-source, lightweight engine for building continuous integration and delivery systems.

Orbiton JS

Open-source software

A lightweight, minimalist JavaScript library for building browser user interfaces.

reactjs-media

Web development

A React library for building media-rich web applications with support for audio, video and WebRTC.

vm-alloc

Applied research

A Rust based CLI tool for spinning up virtual machines using libvirt, QEMU, Firecracker and KVM using cloud images.

Mentant

Applied research

OCaml based Machine Learning Library

Git APT

Applied research

A Github Pages based APT repository for hosting and distributing Debian packages.