[python-nigeria] python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 9

[Chukwudi Nwachukwu]

Aisha, this report is a nice one, thanks for always carrying everyone along.

I wish to congratulate all the DjangoGirls organisers and encourage them to
keep the light blazing.


iChux™
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*Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.*

On 18 April 2016 at 17:00, <python-nigeria-request at python.org> wrote:

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>    1. Gists.....................? (Aisha Bello)
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> From: Aisha Bello <aishabello2050 at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:37:49 +0100
> Subject: [python-nigeria] Gists.....................?
> Bonsoir Pythonistas,
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> Hope we all had a great week and enjoyed the weekend. *clears throat* I
> write to bring you guys gists of how the launch of #PyLadiesNigeria went.
>
> First of thanks to the PSF *#SupportingPythonistasSinceTimeImmemorial* and
> UpperLink Nigeria for generously giving us a very conducive space to host
> our event. We couldn't have done it without them. A massive shout out to my
> co-organizer @TomiwaOrlu for a great job in making sure the event went
> smooth.
>
> We started off by introducing ourselves, talked about our experiences, what
> we hoped to learn/achieve on an individual basis from subsequent PyLadies
> meetups an generally just got to know ourselves.  We had a rich mix of
> amazing ladies from Obiamaka who's in the travel industry to Tomiwa in
> Quality control Hamdalah and Mercy (DG Ota and Akure organizers
> respectively) and a host of many other interesting ladies.
>
> What was thrilling and amazing was we had guys from the PyNigeria community
> #PyMen (*honestly that's what they called themselves*) who came to support
> and encourage us. When Chukwudi #ichux came to inspire us and assure us of
> his ever non failing support for the group while we learnt from his truck
> load of 12 years experience as a python developer, Osas #Oxax gave a lot of
> helpful tips on how we might go about achieving our learning objectives and
> suggested a lot of helpful resources and overcoming the fear of being stuck
> in the learning phase. We were also honored to receive a lot of love from
> Olamilekan #eMergency who came all the way from Ibadan to support us, and
> his wealth of suggestions, tips and advice was amazing. We also had
> Emmanuel join us from the R users meetup group. It was a rich confluence of
> amazing people showing support to PyLadies.
>
> In a nutshell our interests centered around Data science, S/W design
> network, web design e.t.c we hope to form our subsequent meetup timetables
> covering various topics in this area and more.
> And there you go........ how Pyladies launch went.
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> Wishing everyone a pythonic week ahead.
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> Until I come your way again.......Odabo *in my not so Yoruba voice*
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> Aisha
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