From acetakwas at gmail.com Tue Jan 3 10:18:16 2017 From: acetakwas at gmail.com (Tosin Damilare James Animashaun) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:18:16 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] =?utf-8?q?2016=3A_The_Year_in_Review=E2=80=A6_An?= =?utf-8?q?d_Onward!?= Message-ID: Dear Pythonistas, We are delighted to welcome you all into the new year. The year 2016 was an amazing one for this community; we had a number of noteworthy achievements, and we would like to thank everyone for being part of it. Although it had been our year of infancy, we did show so much potential for rapid growth. Here are some of the high points of the year 2016. In the month of February, we had a successful maiden edition of the Django Girls workshop, which has quickly spread across the country, courtesy of your amazing spirits. To this end, we want to specially thank all organizers, mentors, sponsors, and supporters all too numerous to mention. It has been a delight to watch more workshops come up all over the country especially in some hard to reach areas. As an organized community, we held our first in-Slack elections in the month of May. This helped us charge a group of individuals (Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux), Aisha Bello (@aishab), Biola Oyeniyi (@b33sama), Hamdalah Adetunji (@geekhijabi), Eyitemi Egbejule (@insaida), Osayamen (@oxax), Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu), Tosin Animashaun (@acetakwas)) with the responsibilities of governing the community, planning, and corresponding with partners/potential partners of this organization. Later in the year, upon voting by the aforementioned, invitations were sent to two more members of the community to join the Board: Tim Akinbo (@takinbo) and Edward Popoola (@edwardpopoola). Furthermore, we set up a technical team headed by our IT Manager, Biola Oyeniyi (@b33sama), to help with handling the technology needs of the community. This team was able to put up our website, which is located at pythonnigeria.org. We also appreciate Kingsley (@kingsley) for coming up with the official logo of the community. The team has other projects to complete, and welcomes everyone interested in joining. Also, our social media accounts (twitter.com/pythonnigeria and instagram.com/pythonnigeria) were setup not too long ago, and we encourage everyone to promote information shared via any of these mediums. Our Chairperson, Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux) and Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu) became Grants Committee members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) during the course of the year, 2016. Even more, the goodwill and work of our Vice Chairperson, Aisha Bello, have been recognized globally -- she represented us at the DjangoCon US 2016 and even won a Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize award only a few weeks ago. With support from a team drawn from members of the community, we have begun making efforts at planning towards a PyCon Nigeria. Having made some progress with this, we hope to see it come to light in the year 2017. In the month of December, we had a successful commencement of the Smart Girls project in partnership with the Carrington Youth Fellowship Initiative (CYFI), and we hope to round this off in the first quarter of 2017. We would Like to recognize the following volunteers so far, who have taken turns to mentor and coach the girls: Michael Okpala (@mikedeace), Elohor Thomas (@elohor), Osayamen Omigie (@oxax), Tosin Animashaun (@acetakwas), and Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux). We still are looking for volunteers to coach. Therefore, you may reach out on the #cyfi-smart-girls Slack channel if you would like to mentor. We also got funded by the PSF to provide Raspberry PI computers to some of the participating girls. Recently, we have been in talks with a burgeoning Data Science community in Nigeria. The prospects are big, and we are to partner with them in getting the program off the ground. You'll learn more about this soon in the #pydata Slack channel. Anyone with interest can join that channel and make known their interest. We encourage everyone to make use of the channels available (mailing list or Slack) in sharing their experience with the rest of the community. Always feel free to ask questions, make contributions, or raise suggestions any time. We are happy about the growth of the community so far (Wow! Over 300 members already). This year, let us surpass this. Keep innovating; keep building; and keep empowering! Have a *pythonic* year! Kind Regards, *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun* For: *Board, Python Users Nigeria Group* From osiokeitseuwa at gmail.com Wed Jan 4 07:13:22 2017 From: osiokeitseuwa at gmail.com (Osioke Itseuwa) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:13:22 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] =?utf-8?q?2016=3A_The_Year_in_Review=E2=80=A6_A?= =?utf-8?q?nd_Onward!?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: NICE!!! Sorry for the all caps, but I couldn't hide my excitement. I'm a new member here, joined the mailing list after it was shared on Devcenter's Square about a week ago. Please how can I join the Slack channel? On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Tosin Damilare James Animashaun < acetakwas at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Pythonistas, > > We are delighted to welcome you all into the new year. > > The year 2016 was an amazing one for this community; we had a number of > noteworthy achievements, and we would like to thank everyone for being part > of it. Although it had been our year of infancy, we did show so much > potential for rapid growth. > > > Here are some of the high points of the year 2016. > > In the month of February, we had a successful maiden edition of the Django > Girls workshop, which has quickly spread across the country, courtesy of > your amazing spirits. To this end, we want to specially thank all > organizers, mentors, sponsors, and supporters all too numerous to mention. > It has been a delight to watch more workshops come up all over the country > especially in some hard to reach areas. > > As an organized community, we held our first in-Slack elections in the > month of May. This helped us charge a group of individuals (Nwachukwu > Chukwudi (@ichux), Aisha Bello (@aishab), Biola Oyeniyi (@b33sama), > Hamdalah Adetunji (@geekhijabi), Eyitemi Egbejule (@insaida), Osayamen > (@oxax), Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu), Tosin Animashaun (@acetakwas)) with the > responsibilities of governing the community, planning, and corresponding > with partners/potential partners of this organization. Later in the year, > upon voting by the aforementioned, invitations were sent to two more > members of the community to join the Board: Tim Akinbo (@takinbo) and > Edward Popoola (@edwardpopoola). > > Furthermore, we set up a technical team headed by our IT Manager, Biola > Oyeniyi (@b33sama), to help with handling the technology needs of the > community. This team was able to put up our website, which is located at > pythonnigeria.org. We also appreciate Kingsley (@kingsley) for coming up > with the official logo of the community. The team has other projects to > complete, and welcomes everyone interested in joining. > > Also, our social media accounts (twitter.com/pythonnigeria and > instagram.com/pythonnigeria) were setup not too long ago, and we encourage > everyone to promote information shared via any of these mediums. > > Our Chairperson, Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux) and Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu) > became Grants Committee members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) > during the course of the year, 2016. > > Even more, the goodwill and work of our Vice Chairperson, Aisha Bello, have > been recognized globally -- she represented us at the DjangoCon US 2016 and > even won a Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize award only a few weeks ago. > > With support from a team drawn from members of the community, we have begun > making efforts at planning towards a PyCon Nigeria. Having made some > progress with this, we hope to see it come to light in the year 2017. > > In the month of December, we had a successful commencement of the Smart > Girls project in partnership with the Carrington Youth Fellowship > Initiative (CYFI), and we hope to round this off in the first quarter of > 2017. We would Like to recognize the following volunteers so far, who have > taken turns to mentor and coach the girls: Michael Okpala (@mikedeace), > Elohor Thomas (@elohor), Osayamen Omigie (@oxax), Tosin Animashaun > (@acetakwas), and Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux). We still are looking for > volunteers to coach. Therefore, you may reach out on the #cyfi-smart-girls > Slack channel if you would like to mentor. > > We also got funded by the PSF to provide Raspberry PI computers to some of > the participating girls. > > Recently, we have been in talks with a burgeoning Data Science community in > Nigeria. The prospects are big, and we are to partner with them in getting > the program off the ground. You'll learn more about this soon in the > #pydata Slack channel. Anyone with interest can join that channel and make > known their interest. > > We encourage everyone to make use of the channels available (mailing list > or Slack) in sharing their experience with the rest of the community. > Always feel free to ask questions, make contributions, or raise suggestions > any time. > > We are happy about the growth of the community so far (Wow! Over 300 > members already). This year, let us surpass this. Keep innovating; keep > building; and keep empowering! > > Have a *pythonic* year! > > > Kind Regards, > > *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun* > > For: *Board, Python Users Nigeria Group* > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > -- *Disease Info is a web app helping to make disease information easily accessible for Nigerians. You can read the story here .* "If you give to life, life will surely give back to you.." From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed Jan 4 07:16:07 2017 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] =?utf-8?q?2016=3A_The_Year_in_Review=E2=80=A6_A?= =?utf-8?q?nd_Onward!?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Osioke, We are at https://py-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/ on Slack. However, please, when you join us, do use a real DP of yours. We associate with ourselves more in that way. Thanks for your email. *iChux*? https://ng.linkedin.com/in/ichux http://stackoverflow.com/story/nwaomachux https://gist.github.com/nwaomachux *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* On 4 January 2017 at 13:13, Osioke Itseuwa wrote: > NICE!!! > > Sorry for the all caps, but I couldn't hide my excitement. > > I'm a new member here, joined the mailing list after it was shared on > Devcenter's Square about a week ago. Please how can I join the Slack > channel? > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Tosin Damilare James Animashaun < > acetakwas at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear Pythonistas, > > > > We are delighted to welcome you all into the new year. > > > > The year 2016 was an amazing one for this community; we had a number of > > noteworthy achievements, and we would like to thank everyone for being > part > > of it. Although it had been our year of infancy, we did show so much > > potential for rapid growth. > > > > > > Here are some of the high points of the year 2016. > > > > In the month of February, we had a successful maiden edition of the > Django > > Girls workshop, which has quickly spread across the country, courtesy of > > your amazing spirits. To this end, we want to specially thank all > > organizers, mentors, sponsors, and supporters all too numerous to > mention. > > It has been a delight to watch more workshops come up all over the > country > > especially in some hard to reach areas. > > > > As an organized community, we held our first in-Slack elections in the > > month of May. This helped us charge a group of individuals (Nwachukwu > > Chukwudi (@ichux), Aisha Bello (@aishab), Biola Oyeniyi (@b33sama), > > Hamdalah Adetunji (@geekhijabi), Eyitemi Egbejule (@insaida), Osayamen > > (@oxax), Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu), Tosin Animashaun (@acetakwas)) with > the > > responsibilities of governing the community, planning, and corresponding > > with partners/potential partners of this organization. Later in the year, > > upon voting by the aforementioned, invitations were sent to two more > > members of the community to join the Board: Tim Akinbo (@takinbo) and > > Edward Popoola (@edwardpopoola). > > > > Furthermore, we set up a technical team headed by our IT Manager, Biola > > Oyeniyi (@b33sama), to help with handling the technology needs of the > > community. This team was able to put up our website, which is located at > > pythonnigeria.org. We also appreciate Kingsley (@kingsley) for coming up > > with the official logo of the community. The team has other projects to > > complete, and welcomes everyone interested in joining. > > > > Also, our social media accounts (twitter.com/pythonnigeria and > > instagram.com/pythonnigeria) were setup not too long ago, and we > encourage > > everyone to promote information shared via any of these mediums. > > > > Our Chairperson, Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux) and Tomiwa Orolu > (@tmdoubleu) > > became Grants Committee members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) > > during the course of the year, 2016. > > > > Even more, the goodwill and work of our Vice Chairperson, Aisha Bello, > have > > been recognized globally -- she represented us at the DjangoCon US 2016 > and > > even won a Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize award only a few weeks ago. > > > > With support from a team drawn from members of the community, we have > begun > > making efforts at planning towards a PyCon Nigeria. Having made some > > progress with this, we hope to see it come to light in the year 2017. > > > > In the month of December, we had a successful commencement of the Smart > > Girls project in partnership with the Carrington Youth Fellowship > > Initiative (CYFI), and we hope to round this off in the first quarter of > > 2017. We would Like to recognize the following volunteers so far, who > have > > taken turns to mentor and coach the girls: Michael Okpala (@mikedeace), > > Elohor Thomas (@elohor), Osayamen Omigie (@oxax), Tosin Animashaun > > (@acetakwas), and Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux). We still are looking for > > volunteers to coach. Therefore, you may reach out on the > #cyfi-smart-girls > > Slack channel if you would like to mentor. > > > > We also got funded by the PSF to provide Raspberry PI computers to some > of > > the participating girls. > > > > Recently, we have been in talks with a burgeoning Data Science community > in > > Nigeria. The prospects are big, and we are to partner with them in > getting > > the program off the ground. You'll learn more about this soon in the > > #pydata Slack channel. Anyone with interest can join that channel and > make > > known their interest. > > > > We encourage everyone to make use of the channels available (mailing list > > or Slack) in sharing their experience with the rest of the community. > > Always feel free to ask questions, make contributions, or raise > suggestions > > any time. > > > > We are happy about the growth of the community so far (Wow! Over 300 > > members already). This year, let us surpass this. Keep innovating; keep > > building; and keep empowering! > > > > Have a *pythonic* year! > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun* > > > > For: *Board, Python Users Nigeria Group* > > _______________________________________________ > > python-nigeria mailing list > > python-nigeria at python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > > > > > > -- > *Disease Info is a web app helping > to > make disease information easily accessible for Nigerians. You can read the > story here > a476a576e3cf#.wch9adk4f>.* > > "If you give to life, life will surely give back to you.." > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > From georgeakanimoh at gmail.com Wed Jan 4 10:52:25 2017 From: georgeakanimoh at gmail.com (Akanimoh George) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:52:25 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Joining Python Nigeria Message-ID: <586d1a53.e7b1c20a.678f4.6af4@mx.google.com> Hi, I'm Akanimoh, a banker and I'm happy to join python Nigeria. I see this as a place to meet other programmers and hone my skills. Regards. From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed Jan 4 10:55:01 2017 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:55:01 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Joining Python Nigeria In-Reply-To: <586d1a53.e7b1c20a.678f4.6af4@mx.google.com> References: <586d1a53.e7b1c20a.678f4.6af4@mx.google.com> Message-ID: Dear Akanimoh, Yes, you are at the right place. We are happy to have you in our midst. However, please join us here (https://py-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/) too, with your real DP *iChux*? https://ng.linkedin.com/in/ichux http://stackoverflow.com/story/nwaomachux https://gist.github.com/nwaomachux *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* On 4 January 2017 at 16:52, Akanimoh George wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Akanimoh, a banker and I'm happy to join python Nigeria. I see this as > a place to meet other programmers and hone my skills. > > Regards. > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > From ifeanyi.chimezie at yahoo.com Mon Jan 23 07:15:48 2017 From: ifeanyi.chimezie at yahoo.com (Chimezie M. Ifeanyichukwu) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [python-nigeria] Intorduction References: <1876241796.1851585.1485173748087.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1876241796.1851585.1485173748087@mail.yahoo.com> Hello there, My name is chimezie ifeanyichukwu and I currently work as an IT administrator. I am happy to be here and I hope to learn a lot about python from the community. From hsysinfo at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 10:12:09 2017 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:12:09 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Intorduction In-Reply-To: <1876241796.1851585.1485173748087@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1876241796.1851585.1485173748087.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1876241796.1851585.1485173748087@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Chimezie, You are not left alone, as we welcome everyone to join us so that we would be able to achieve better things. In case you are not yet to Slack, join us here: http://py-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/ When you register, we need you to change your DP to the real you. We want to know ourselves facially. After that, please feel free to collaborate in any of the available channels. Welcome on board. *iChux*? https://ng.linkedin.com/in/ichux http://stackoverflow.com/story/nwaomachux https://gist.github.com/nwaomachux *You haven't experienced the joy of giving until it hurts to do so.**Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* On 23 January 2017 at 13:15, Chimezie M. Ifeanyichukwu via python-nigeria < python-nigeria at python.org> wrote: > Hello there, > My name is chimezie ifeanyichukwu and I currently work as an IT > administrator. I am happy to be here and I hope to learn a lot about python > from the community. > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria >