[Python-africa] PyCon Zimbabwe

[Loek van Gent]

Dear Anna,

Great job! Awesome you all kept on putting energy into this project
regardless the problems you faced.
So glad it turned out to be a success.

Next year I'll join!

Cheers,
Loek



On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Anna Makarudze <amakarudze at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Pythonistas,
>
> How are you all? I am doing fine and hope you are all well.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> All I can say in short is, PyCon Zimbabwe was an awesome conference, you
> should have been there to witness for yourself!
>
> That's from me. Humphrey can also tell you his side of the story!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anna
> PyCon Zimbabwe Organiser
>
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