[Python-africa] Python-africa Digest, Vol 11, Issue 4

[Chukwudi Nwachukwu]

Your conference is a success and I know why: aid restrictions didn't stop
you.

I'm happy that you achieved a lot despite not being the cause of the
problem. Greetings to the Pythonistas over there. We love them all.


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On 18 December 2016 at 18:00, <python-africa-request at python.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Python-africa Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1 (Aisha Bello)
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> Huge congratulations to you Anna and Humphery, and thanks for giving us
> this breakdown. We are all so super proud of you and what you've done so
> far in the community. Despite the hurdles you guys came out stronger and
> that's what matters most. Looking forward to PyCon Zimbabwe 2017.
> More grease to your elbows.
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> Cheers,
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> On 13 December 2016 at 18:00, <python-africa-request at python.org> wrote:
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>>    1. PyCon Zimbabwe (Anna Makarudze)
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:26:07 +0200
>> From: Anna Makarudze <amakarudze at gmail.com>
>> To: python-africa at python.org
>> Subject: [Python-africa] PyCon Zimbabwe
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>> Dear Pythonistas,
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>> How are you all? I am doing fine and hope you are all well.
>>
>> On behalf of the organisers of PyCon Zimbabwe 2016, our very first PyCon
>> by
>> the way,we would like to thank you all for the support you gave us before
>> and during our conference. We would like to appreciate all who took part
>> in
>> setting up as well as publicizing our crowdfunding project which was our
>> main source of funding for the event. Sorry, I will not name you in this
>> post but  we are so grateful for your support.
>>
>> We would like to tell you that PyCon Zimbabwe was a success. We were
>> hoping
>> for 60 participants and we managed to get 59 registered participants so we
>> missed our target by 1! We also had visitors from USA, Amanda Gelender
>> from
>> GitHub and Mike Place from Saltstack as our keynote speakers. We had our
>> own Gabriel Nhinda from UNAM, Namibia and Petrus from Cape Town, South
>> Africa as part of the speakers line up.
>>
>> I will not get into details about the logistics though everything was fine
>> for a first conference. What challenged me most was the inspiration in all
>> the talks given at PyCon Zimbabwe. We only had 4 international speakers
>> and
>> the rest were local and they gave superb presentations to our amazement as
>> organisers. We were both shocked and stunned with the response from a
>> Python community we had no idea of its existence. We hope to start meeting
>> as PyLadies soon and we also hope to start partnerships with some of the
>> universities represented at the PyCon next year to help advance Python in
>> Zimbabwe.
>>
>> All our troubles, all our efforts and all the challenges we faced were
>> worth PyCon Zimbabwe. It was a great conference and we also managed to
>> introduce 20 men and women to Python and Django through a Django Girls
>> workshop.
>>
>> All I can say in short is, PyCon Zimbabwe was an awesome conference, you
>> should have been there to witness for yourself!
>>
>> That's from me. Humphrey can also tell you his side of the story!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Anna
>> PyCon Zimbabwe Organiser
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>> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:33:05 +0200
>> From: Simon Cross <hodgestar at gmail.com>
>> To: Anna Makarudze <amakarudze at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [Python-africa] PyCon Zimbabwe
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>> Congratulations! :D
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>> Hoping to make it to PyCon Zimbabwe 2017. :)
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