<div dir="ltr">Dear Tshiamo,<div><br></div><div>It is an honor to receive your invitation. Thanks for the great work that you are all doing on behalf of all of us. I know how time consuming it can be.</div><div><br></div><div>I will let the Namibian Python Community know and see how we can be involved.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Jessica</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:14 PM Motshegwa, Tshiamo(Dr) <<a href="mailto:Tshiamo.Motshegwa@mopipi.ub.bw">Tshiamo.Motshegwa@mopipi.ub.bw</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_1090958403128302674WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Dear Jessica and Python Community Colleagues<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">It was good meeting some of you at the African Conference on Fundamental Physics & Application ACP 2018 <a href="https://www.africanschoolofphysics.org/acp/" target="_blank">https://www.africanschoolofphysics.org/acp/</a> in Windhoek, Namibia last month<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Just to let you know, Africa through Botswana and University of Botswana is hosting this year’s International Data Week - <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/" target="_blank">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/</a> and the collocated SciDataCon - <a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/" target="_blank">https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">This is in partnership with International Science Council (ICSU)’S Committee on Data (CODATA) - <a href="http://www.codata.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org/</a>  & World Data System (WDS) - <a href="https://www.icsu-wds.org/" target="_blank">https://www.icsu-wds.org/</a> , Research Data Alliance (RDA) - <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/" target="_blank">https://www.rd-alliance.org/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">There has been an over 70 Sessions accepted <a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/" target="_blank">https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/</a> across multiple cross cutting data themes <a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/" target="_blank">https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/</a> , and numerous papers have been submitted through <a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/" target="_blank">https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">There will be pre-conference training including <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">data science, artificial intelligence & visualization,  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Software & Data Carpentries<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">eResearch/Research Infrastructures<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Research Data Management<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Drones for Science – A data Collection Week and a 2-day X-athon<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_1090958403128302674MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><u></u><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Making Data Sharing Work Workshop etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">And RDA, WDS AND CODATA Working Group Meetings<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">If your community is keen to also hold a python & data session at IDW 2018 &SCIDataCon-IDW2018 – let us know – and maybe you can coordinate with us at University of Botswana Computer Science on  Python communities and Botswana nodes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Registration is coming soon and the details are here <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration" target="_blank">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/registration</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">There maybe some limited scholarships to make participation at this event inclusive, e.g </span><span lang="EN-IE"><a href="https://grants.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/call-early-careers" target="_blank">https://grants.rd-alliance.org/OpenCalls/call-early-careers</a> </span><span style="color:#1f497d">-  keep an eye on the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">- <a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/" target="_blank">http://www.internationaldataweek.org/</a> site for any further announcements.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Looking forward to welcoming you all to Botswana<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">IDW PDC & LOC</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="349" height="194" id="m_1090958403128302674Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D43941.93614570" alt="cid:image001.png@01D4151F.7E86F410"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">_________________<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#14171a;background:#f5f8fa">International Data Week 2018 for Africa and for the World - Gaborone, Botswana, 5^th – 8^thNovember 2018 </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://t.co/phAVpgojNh" title="http://internationaldataweek.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">http://</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">internationaldataweek.org</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">/ </span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#14171a;background:#f5f8fa"> </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/idw2018?src=hash" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">#idw2018</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#14171a;background:#f5f8fa"> -</span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://t.co/KT1tYVEv54" title="http://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">http://www.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">scidatacon.org/IDW2018/</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa"> </span></a></span><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#14171a;background:#f5f8fa"> </span><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SFSA2017?src=hash" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#91d2fa;background:#f5f8fa">#SFSA2017</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Data Week : Deadline for abstracts for presentations and posters to the SciDataCon part of </span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Data Week</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is 25th June.  Please consult the </span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/conference_themes_and_scope/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">conference themes</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the </span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/approved_sessions/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Approved Sessions</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">and the </span></b><span lang="EN-ZA"><a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/conference/IDW2018/call_for_papers/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">call for abstracts</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.  Abstracts may be submitted for any approved session or to the General Submissions.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="1407" height="592" id="m_1090958403128302674Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D43941.93614570" alt="cid:image003.png@01D430BD.5561EC20"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>