[python-nigeria] The Beautiful Journey So far and my self appointed role as a Nigeria Python community evangelist

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Greetings to you all in the name of the BDFL.

I'm Adewale Adeagbo, a python newbie. Many thanks to those who started this community; I believe that I'm in great company. 

Our dreams are valid. Let's do it!

Aisha Bello <aishabello2050 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear Nigerian Pythonistas,
>
>It's been really quiet here and I was wondering where all the Nigerian
>python community supporters and enthusiasts were.
>
>This past week has been awesome needless to say. First of My proposal to
>PyCon Namibia was accepted and I would be telling our story to an audience
>of global community of Pythonistas in Windhoek, Namibia about DjangoGirls
>Lagos and the Nigerian Python community.
>
>Git Hub is proudly sponsoring our event and are giving our 30 attendees and
>10 coaches(40) free 1 year coupons to GitHub micro plan which includes 5
>private repositories which is valued at $84/year. I guess I don't need to
>emphasize what tremendous value this is. Also sending e-hugs and a shout
>out to Naomi Ceder who is backup admin of this list and PSF board member
>for all her support. She is DjangoGirls Lagos official cupcakes
>sponsor.....*yaaay*
>
>The final awesome news. So I attended the TEDxEuston conference and met
>Mark Essien C.E.O of hotels.ng after his inspirational talk at the
>conference. I spoke to him about the Django Girls event and the Nigerian
>Python community (I didn't even know before he was a pythonista :D) I told
>him about the community conversations and how we intend for DjangoGirls
>Lagos coach's dinner to also be the first gathering of the Nigerian Python
>community. There and then he expressed interest in attending and added the
>date of the event to his Calendar. This is awesome news as asides being an
>awesome networking event for Nigerian Pythonistas it will also be a source
>of inspiration to the women who would just be beginning their journey with
>learning how to code
>
>For everyone who has indicated their passion to support to DjangoGirls in
>Lagos please register as a coach here https://djangogirls.org/lagos/#coach
>and be one of 10 mentors to 3 women during the workshop. Also if you would
>like your company to sponsor us please shoot me an email or forward your
>inquiries to lagos at djangogirl.org
>
>I would close with this few words "Do you want to be a participant or a
>spectator in the growth of our community as a tool to better Nigeria" "The
>world needs dreamers and the world need doers but what the world really
>needs is Dreamers who Do". I want to encourage everyone already hereto take
>time out of their very busy schedule to introduce themselves, drop comments
>and suggestions for the community and let's get the ball rolling. It would
>really be sad to see *the Nigerian factor* come to play here.
>
>Wishing you all a great week ahead.
>Aisha Bello
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