<div dir="ltr">Dear Anna,<div><br></div><div>Great job! Awesome you all kept on putting energy into this project regardless the problems you faced.</div><div>So glad it turned out to be a success.</div><div><br></div><div>Next year I'll join!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Loek</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Anna Makarudze <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amakarudze@gmail.com" target="_blank">amakarudze@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Pythonistas,<div><br></div><div>How are you all? I am doing fine and hope you are all well. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>All I can say in short is, PyCon Zimbabwe was an awesome conference, you should have been there to witness for yourself!</div><div><br></div><div>That's from me. Humphrey can also tell you his side of the story!</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Anna</div><div>PyCon Zimbabwe Organiser</div></div>
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