From helenopetunde at yahoo.com Mon May 9 17:10:43 2016 From: helenopetunde at yahoo.com (Opetunde Helen) Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 21:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [python-nigeria] python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1615267624.1469098.1462828243632.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Hello everyone, I felt it was really needful to hint you all about the event we had in Ogbomoso last weekend. Before I say anything, I want to give a big shout out to Aisha Bello, Oga Chuks, Hamdalah, Lekan Wahab, Mercy, Eyitemi, Ayo and a host of other coaches that travelled all the way down just so the event could be a success. You are so awesome and I really thank you for helping out. Django girls Ogbomoso would not have been successful without you.? So, we had about 25 girls in attendance and according to one of them, "the event was really interesting and was worth the sacrifice of travelling all the way from Niger state." Also, we are planning to start a meet up with the girls next semester to help us all become experts in coding. Coming up next is DjangogirlsFUTA, DjangogirlsOAU and DjangogirlsOTTA and we need your support please.? Thank you all for everything and have a great time. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 17:00, python-nigeria-request at python.org wrote: Send python-nigeria mailing list submissions to ??? python-nigeria at python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ??? https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ??? python-nigeria-request at python.org You can reach the person managing the list at ??? python-nigeria-owner at python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of python-nigeria digest..." Today's Topics: ? 1. Plea for awesome coaches (Opetunde Helen) ? 2. Hello Python Nigeria (Morolake Orekoya) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:43:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Opetunde Helen To: "python-nigeria at python.org" Subject: [python-nigeria] Plea for awesome coaches Message-ID: ??? <1569408491.4754220.1461944589431.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello everyone!?? I believe we all are doing great. First off, I'd like to thank you all for supporting Django girls Ogbomoso event so far. Thanks to all of those who volunteered to coach the girls; you really are awesome.?So far, we have 30 girls and about 7 coaches on ground. We are planning to have three girls to one coach, which is where I am really pleading for your help. The point is, we need more coaches. ?I understand that the economy is not friendly presently and many of us might dread the idea of travelling all the way down to Ogbomoso, but we can only beg you to please do it for the girls who will never forget you for teaching them what might pave a great way for their success in life eventually. Who knows whether you will be coaching the Sheryl Sandberg of Nigeria at this event ;)?The bottom line of this story is that we need three more coaches. Please if you will be available on the 6th and 7th of May (next weekend) kindly help us to coach these girls and we promise to make you feel as comfortable as possible. Thank you so much ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:55:16 +0100 From: Morolake Orekoya To: python-nigeria at python.org Subject: [python-nigeria] Hello Python Nigeria Message-ID: ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, My name is Rolake, new to the python language. I look forward to being able to contribute to this community. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ python-nigeria mailing list python-nigeria at python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria ------------------------------ End of python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13 ********************************************* From aishabello2050 at gmail.com Wed May 11 01:51:46 2016 From: aishabello2050 at gmail.com (Aisha Bello) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 06:51:46 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Breaking News!!!................Why Campaign? Message-ID: My Dear Pythonistas, Forgive my attempt to catch your attention :) Helen: I had so much fun at DjangoGirls Ogbomoso. Mentoring the girls was rewarding enough and totally worth the journey all the way to Ogbomoso. You and your team did a marvelous job of organizing, and we (the community) are so proud of you. Without further ado and in a bid to not bore you with long emails, this mid-week. There's been a lot of conversation on slack about registering PyNigeria as a not-for-profit company (A very mandatory need if our vision is to get to the stage of a PyCon and many other community feats). One of the major criteria for this to happen is that we need 3 board members(Chair, Treasurer and Secretary) There has been quite a number of nominations on the slack channel and @ichux AND @acetakwas are working on a cool way to vote using bots on slack. I am writing just incase some of us might not be on slack. So please nominate at least one person each for the 3 positions, if you haven't already you just might get nominated instead. The nomination end Saturday 12 noon and voting would hold on Sunday the 15th. Although results would be in real time, but it would be published on Monday. Please note that to vote you need to be on Python Nigeria slack channel. And if you aren't please drop your email here and you would be added on slack asap. Another interesting news is PSF directors vote is coming soon and our dear Naomi Ceder (PSF board member) is running for the post of director. So do make your vote count in the global python space ;). Ref: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation/BoardCandidates2016 All organizers, mentors, community administrators etc who put in at least 6 hours every month qualify to be contributing members to vote. oops, this wasn't supposed to be long. My sincere apologies ;). With Pythonic love, Aisha Bello From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed May 11 03:16:53 2016 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 08:16:53 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] python-nigeria Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Django Girls Ogbomosho was cool and exciting. The management of the school, from the HOD to others made sure that we had light and Internet throughout the duration of the event. And we do send them our warmest love while thanking them for every help they rendered. LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, is a cool place, I must confess. The ICT centre is well equipped and I am impressed. While we look forward to other Django Girls events that are upcoming, we would like to thank those that have completed their successfully. @Helen, please extend our greetings to the team that you also worked with, it was nice knowing them all. You and your team were there all through to make sure that we had everything we needed. Now, I would like to tell others that they should endeavour to tell their attendees of the Python Nigeria mailing list at http://www.python.org.ng and the Slack channel at https://pythonnigeria.slack.com/ The Slack channel needs an invite and we would be glad to add such people to the space so that they can get any help that they need, which might arise after attending the Django Girls events. Dear Helen, thank you very much. iChux? http://bit.ly/iscrape *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* On 10 May 2016 at 17:00, wrote: > Send python-nigeria mailing list submissions to > python-nigeria at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-nigeria-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > python-nigeria-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of python-nigeria digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13 (Opetunde Helen) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Opetunde Helen > To: "python-nigeria at python.org" > Cc: > Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 21:10:43 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [python-nigeria] python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13 > Hello everyone, > I felt it was really needful to hint you all about the event we had in > Ogbomoso last weekend. Before I say anything, I want to give a big shout > out to Aisha Bello, Oga Chuks, Hamdalah, Lekan Wahab, Mercy, Eyitemi, Ayo > and a host of other coaches that travelled all the way down just so the > event could be a success. You are so awesome and I really thank you for > helping out. Django girls Ogbomoso would not have been successful without > you. > So, we had about 25 girls in attendance and according to one of them, "the > event was really interesting and was worth the sacrifice of travelling all > the way from Niger state." > Also, we are planning to start a meet up with the girls next semester to > help us all become experts in coding. > Coming up next is DjangogirlsFUTA, DjangogirlsOAU and DjangogirlsOTTA and > we need your support please. > Thank you all for everything and have a great time. > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 17:00, python-nigeria-request at python.org< > python-nigeria-request at python.org> wrote: Send python-nigeria mailing > list submissions to > python-nigeria at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-nigeria-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > python-nigeria-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of python-nigeria digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Plea for awesome coaches (Opetunde Helen) > 2. Hello Python Nigeria (Morolake Orekoya) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:43:09 +0000 (UTC) > From: Opetunde Helen > To: "python-nigeria at python.org" > Subject: [python-nigeria] Plea for awesome coaches > Message-ID: > <1569408491.4754220.1461944589431.JavaMail.yahoo at mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hello everyone!?? I believe we all are doing great. First off, I'd like to > thank you all for supporting Django girls Ogbomoso event so far. Thanks to > all of those who volunteered to coach the girls; you really are awesome.?So > far, we have 30 girls and about 7 coaches on ground. We are planning to > have three girls to one coach, which is where I am really pleading for your > help. The point is, we need more coaches. > ?I understand that the economy is not friendly presently and many of us > might dread the idea of travelling all the way down to Ogbomoso, but we can > only beg you to please do it for the girls who will never forget you for > teaching them what might pave a great way for their success in life > eventually. Who knows whether you will be coaching the Sheryl Sandberg of > Nigeria at this event ;)?The bottom line of this story is that we need > three more coaches. Please if you will be available on the 6th and 7th of > May (next weekend) kindly help us to coach these girls and we promise to > make you feel as comfortable as possible. Thank you so much > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:55:16 +0100 > From: Morolake Orekoya > To: python-nigeria at python.org > Subject: [python-nigeria] Hello Python Nigeria > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > My name is Rolake, new to the python language. I look forward to being able > to contribute to this community. > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > > > ------------------------------ > > End of python-nigeria Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13 > ********************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > > From aishabello2050 at gmail.com Sun May 15 04:10:53 2016 From: aishabello2050 at gmail.com (Aisha Bello) Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 09:10:53 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Time to Vote.............................. Message-ID: Hello dear Pythonistas, I hail thee. So after taken into consideration all the nominations suggested. We need to put this to a vote. This is important because we are registering PyNigeria as a recognised not for profit in Nigeria. So I beg everyone of us to go on to Slack. Voting will end on Monday the 16th. There are 3 channels on Slack that has been created #votes_chair, #votes_secretary, #votes_treasurer. Just head on to the channels and do a tick box for whoever you intend voting for in each category. If you are not on slack please drop your email privately, and we will add you asap. News: We are in talks with the Carrington Youth Fellowship Initiative to teach 200 under privileged secondary school girls programming in the coming months. When all the details has been finalized I would be giving you guys real time updates. Meanwhile one of the things we need to do ASAP is get our community website up and running. If you would like to help out especially with the design(logo et.al) please do get in touch. With Warm pythonic greetings, Aisha Bello p.s- If you haven't already seen it, an article I wrote about DG Lagos got published. http://blog.djangogirls.org/post/144289849283/organizing-a-djangogirls-in-africa-excerpt-from From hsysinfo at gmail.com Sun May 15 11:20:00 2016 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 16:20:00 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Postponement of Elections Message-ID: Dear All, I write to tell you that the programmer building the election bots to be used on Slack is experiencing some challenges and has asked that we postpone the elections for today till he tells us that he is ready. Please bear with us on this, thanks. iChux? http://bit.ly/iscrape *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* From godsownchild08 at gmail.com Wed May 18 02:30:23 2016 From: godsownchild08 at gmail.com (Akinkuotu Mercy) Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 07:30:23 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Soliciting for coaches Message-ID: Hello everyone! I believe you are all doing well. I am Akinkuotu Mercy, I am a student of computer science in FUTA,a python enthusiast and organizer of Django-girls Akure Firstly, I would love to thank you all for your support towards all the Django girls workshops in Nigeria, from Django girls Lagos to Django girls Ogbomosho and Django girls Akure ,OAU ,PortHarcourt and Ota which would be coming up sometimes this year. I am sending this mail to solicit for mentors and coaches for the Django girls event coming up in Akure on the 10th & 11th June 2016. Please, if you will be available at that time, kindly help us in coaching these ladies and we promise to make you feel as comfortable as possible. I will be awaiting your response. Thanks. Best Regards. From aishabello2050 at gmail.com Thu May 19 10:30:20 2016 From: aishabello2050 at gmail.com (Aisha Bello) Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:30:20 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Yaay!!!...........Our bots are ready ..... Message-ID: Hello Wonderful Pythonistas, I apologize for the delay in getting the votes started. Many thanks for being patient Massive shout out to @acetakwas and @ichux for all the hard work they've put into making sure our vote bot works. First things first: if you haven't nominated for the three positions please do so now. Nominations ends today. Voting starts tomorrow Friday at 00:00. Please join the voting channels for each category i.e #votes_chairperson #votes_secretary #votes_treasurer and cast your vote, by just clicking on the check mark of the person you want to vote for. Only your first mark counts. Voting ends Saturday 21st at 11:59 pm. We look forward to a fun election With PyHugs, Aisha From aishabello2050 at gmail.com Sat May 21 07:59:49 2016 From: aishabello2050 at gmail.com (Aisha Bello) Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 12:59:49 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Why your vote is important Message-ID: Hello wonderful Pythonistas, This is a warm appeal that we all need you to participate in the votes. We need the votes to at least account for a majority of our community population. currently only about 30 people have voted, and according to statistics we are now about a 100 on slack and a little over 80 on the mailing list. Thats' not even up to 50% of our population. This is one of those times where we all need to pull our weights and make this happen. By voting, we not only facilitate the process of registering our name pynigeria. We also put ourselves on a pedestal to achieve even far greater things. There are quite a number of things lined up and we have to do it one step at a time. Oh did i mention that being a registered body is paramount to sealing our relationship with the Carrington Youth Fellowship initiative as a partner.......This would be the same case for our future goals like a PyCon e.t.c. To this end voting has been extended by an extra day and would end Sunday 22nd 11:59pm. Cheers to even greater works. With Pythonic love..... Aisha From godsownchild08 at gmail.com Sun May 22 11:37:04 2016 From: godsownchild08 at gmail.com (Akinkuotu Mercy) Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 16:37:04 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Soliciting for Coaches Message-ID: Hi everyone, Hope you have cast your vote, if not, please do. It is for the progress and growth of pythonNigeria. I omitted some vital information in my previous mail.Thanks to Mr Chuks who called my attention to it. We have 20 ladies registered for the event and registration is still on so far we have just 4 coaches.You can be one of our awesome coaches by clicking on this link to register. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19_xrQo5DUkhVp30VFelH0JarSsmxy_TEWbV3Fx_7Od4/prefill .Thank you for your maximum support. From acetakwas at gmail.com Tue May 24 13:34:48 2016 From: acetakwas at gmail.com (Tosin Damilare James Animashaun) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:34:48 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] New Board Elected Message-ID: Good evening PyUNG members, I want to thank you all for your participation in the just concluded elections. If you didn't participate, please do so next time. Everyone's vote counts. Here are the officers and their respective offices, and other members of the Executive Committee: *Chairperson* : Chukwudi Nwachukwu *Vice Chairperson* : Aisha Bello *Secretary* : Tosin Damilare James Animashaun *Treasurer* : Hamdalah Adetunji *Members* : Biola Oyeniyi, Eyitemi Egbejule, Osayumen Omigie, Tomiwa Orolu Although elected as Chair, Aisha has informed the committee that she wouldn't be available for some time. So, Chuckwudi has been reinstated, and Aisha is Vice Chairperson. Furthermore, all nominated candidates, having been nominated, have been automatically made committee members. Your Board is always interested in getting ideas and feedback from you. Please contact us here on the mailing list, or via the *#general* channel of the team's Slack . Your secretary, *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun* *Christian | Programmer | Learner* *Mobile:* +234 701 1389 064 *Blog:* http://takwas.github.io/ *LinkedIn: [image: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/tosin-damilare-james-animashaun/24/57a/471] * *Github**:* [image: https://github.com/takwas] From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed May 25 11:26:05 2016 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 16:26:05 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] New Board Elected (Tosin Damilare James Animashaun) Message-ID: I want to thank you all for your participation in the just concluded elections. If you didn't participate, please do so next time. Everyone's vote counts. Here are the officers and their respective offices, and other members of the Executive Committee: *Chairperson* : Chukwudi Nwachukwu *Vice Chairperson* : Aisha Bello *Secretary* : Tosin Damilare James Animashaun *Treasurer* : Hamdalah Adetunji *Members* : Biola Oyeniyi, Eyitemi Egbejule, Osayumen Omigie, Tomiwa Orolu Although elected as Chair, Aisha has informed the committee that she wouldn't be available for some time. So, Chuckwudi has been reinstated, and Aisha is Vice Chairperson. Furthermore, all nominated candidates, having been nominated, have been automatically made committee members. Your Board is always interested in getting ideas and feedback from you. Please contact us here on the mailing list, or via the *#general* channel of the team's Slack . Your secretary, *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun* *Christian | Programmer | Learner* *Mobile:* +234 701 1389 064 *Blog:* http://takwas.github.io/ *LinkedIn: [image: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/tosin-damilare-james-animashaun/24/57a/471] * *Github**:* [image: https://github.com/takwas] From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed May 25 11:28:07 2016 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 16:28:07 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Soliciting for Coaches (Akinkuotu Mercy) Message-ID: @mercy: thanks for the updates. We do look forward to gracing the occasion. @all: information overload these days makes it difficult for many people to keep up with events. I'm calling on anyone out there who is able to, to please apply. We want to make it memorable for the Django Girls and they need our support in all facets. When I spoke with her, she said there are now 6 coaches, and 4 more are needed. iChux? http://bit.ly/iscrape *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* From hsysinfo at gmail.com Wed May 25 03:51:01 2016 From: hsysinfo at gmail.com (Chukwudi Nwachukwu) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 08:51:01 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] python-nigeria Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: @mercy: thanks for the updates. We do look forward to gracing the occasion. @all: information overload these days makes it difficult for many people to keep up with events. I'm calling on anyone out there who is able to, to please apply. We want to make it memorable for the Django Girls and they need our support in all facets. When I spoke with her, she said there are now 6 coaches, and 4 more are needed. iChux? http://bit.ly/iscrape *Behind every no entry sign, there is a door.* On 23 May 2016 at 17:00, wrote: > Send python-nigeria mailing list submissions to > python-nigeria at python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > python-nigeria-request at python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > python-nigeria-owner at python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of python-nigeria digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Soliciting for Coaches (Akinkuotu Mercy) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Akinkuotu Mercy > To: python-nigeria at python.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 16:37:04 +0100 > Subject: Re: [python-nigeria] Soliciting for Coaches > Hi everyone, > Hope you have cast your vote, if not, please do. It is for the progress and > growth of pythonNigeria. I omitted some vital information in my previous > mail.Thanks to Mr Chuks who called my attention to it. > We have 20 ladies registered for the event and registration is still on so > far we have just 4 coaches.You can be one of our awesome coaches by > clicking on this link to register. > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19_xrQo5DUkhVp30VFelH0JarSsmxy_TEWbV3Fx_7Od4/prefill > .Thank you for your maximum support. > > > _______________________________________________ > python-nigeria mailing list > python-nigeria at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nigeria > > From aishabello2050 at gmail.com Mon May 30 03:43:18 2016 From: aishabello2050 at gmail.com (Aisha Bello) Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 08:43:18 +0100 Subject: [python-nigeria] Hello it's Me....(Explanations) Message-ID: Dear Highly esteemed Pyladies and PyMen, It's been a while. Forgive my radio silence, the week has been very eventful. There are a number of things to talk about but I promise to make this short *covers face* Firstly. Thanks to everyone for taking time out to vote in the last election for board members. I am particularly honored and grateful that you would vote me in as chair. Be that as it may for the better part towards the end of the year I would be out on a training and I won't be physically on ground to help facilitate all the amazing things we have planned. To this end I trust Ichux (who is ever so diligent, commited and there for us in real time) will do an amazing job as Chair, and I will continue to support as an adhoc vice chair :D But I will always be virtually around. Our PyNigeria Constitution and curriculum has been worked on by the team. Tosin (a.k.a Secretary) would be posting links to our Github page. If everyone would go through the constitution and the curriculum draft for the girls and make their own inputs/ P.R that would be really cool. We are all still a team and we would really appreciate your contributions. Now that we have all voted we need to move to the next item on the Agenda. We need NGN 120,000 to enable us register our name. To this end a warm appeal to everyone to donate to this cause for the community. Like I mentioned earlier community projects like the CYFI partnership, A PyCon, future projects e.t.c would latch on the advantage of legally registering our organization in Nigeria. If 40(half) of us contributed 3k each we would reach our goal in no time. That said, nothing is too small, and we welcome and appreciate all donations regardless of the value. Hamdalah (Treasurer) would be sharing the account details we would be contributing to in a bit. Finally, part of the community plan would be to set up a website, We have graciously gotten our own python.org email pynigeria at python.org If you have any concerns, questions or just anything to say to the board members feel free to drop us a line. It's PyCON US week guys. Shout out to Pythonistas representing us at PyCon this year *shines teeth* Lending my voice to DjangoGirls FUTA who is still soliciting for coaches. I personally would be there wearing my coaches hat, and if you can make it please do come out to coach. There is something so beautiful and rewarding in teaching others an amazing skill like learning how to code in Python. oops I did it again. *still shinning teeth* Have a Pythonic week everyone, Aisha Bello. p.s- Pyladies meetup this past Saturday was the bomb. Thanks to Codebridge and everyone who made it possible ;).