From drnlmuller+python at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 06:38:34 2018 From: drnlmuller+python at gmail.com (Neil Muller) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:38:34 +0200 Subject: [Python-africa] PyCon ZA 2018 - Second Call for Speakers Message-ID: This is a second call for talk proposals for PyCon ZA 2018. While we've already received several great talk proposals, we still have a number of open talk slots and are thus keen to see further talk submissions. PyCon ZA 2018 will take place on the 11th & 12th of October at The Birchwood Hotel & Conference Centre, in Boksburg North, Johannesburg, South Africa (location link: https://goo.gl/maps/XMtwhJCKVt92 ). There will also be tutorial sessions the day before the conference (the 10th) and we will hold sprints on the 13th & 14th of October. We are currently accepting proposals for talks. If you would like to give a presentation, please register at https://za.pycon.org/ and submit your proposal, following the instructions at https://za.pycon.org/talks/submit-talk . We have a number of tracks available, including: Web, Scientific-Computing/PyData, Testing and Other (which includes all talks that don't fall under the mentioned tracks). Talk submissions close io the 31st of August 2018, ad we hope to inform speakers by the second week of September. If you need an earlier decision for travel planning, please add a note with your deadline to your submission. The presentation slots will be 30 minutes long, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion at the end. Shared sessions are also possible. The presentations will be in English. PyCon ZA offers a mentorship program for inexperienced speakers. If you would like assistance preparing your submission, email team at za.pycon.org with a rough draft of your talk proposal and we'll find a suitable experienced speaker to act as a mentor. In addition to talks, we are also looking for proposals for tutorials, demos, sprints and open spaces. Tutorials will be held before the conference and are expected to provided in-depth coverage of a topic. The number of attendees will be also be limited. We are accepting proposals for either half day (4 hours) or full-day (8 hours) tutorials. The deadline for tutorial submissions is the 27th of July 2018, and we'll inform people of our decision in early August. Demos are cool things for attendees to see and interact with. Open spaces are open discussion forums where communities with a common interest gather to present views, ask questions and meet people interested in the topic. Sprints are coding efforts and hack days that happen after the conference. There is no need to register a sprint or open space topic upfront, but doing so allows us to advertise them during the conference. Limited financial assistance for attendees is available. See https://za.pycon.org/financial-aid/ for details on how to apply. Each submission will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. -- Neil Muller On behalf of the PyCon ZA organising committee From arj.python at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 15:00:07 2018 From: arj.python at gmail.com (Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:00:07 +0400 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects Message-ID: any african endeavours currently on for python? Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hodgestar at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 17:37:56 2018 From: hodgestar at gmail.com (Simon Cross) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 23:37:56 +0200 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: PyConZA 2018 takes place in Johannesburg on the 11th and 12th October -- https://za.pycon.org/. From arj.python at gmail.com Tue Jul 10 22:40:08 2018 From: arj.python at gmail.com (Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 06:40:08 +0400 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: nice, i'm from Mauritius btw. did not know that south africa had it's own pycon. looked at the slides, nice topics ! Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas at ayih-akakpo.org Wed Jul 11 12:15:43 2018 From: thomas at ayih-akakpo.org (thomas at ayih-akakpo.org) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:15:43 +0000 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <14d562ed81f17f8bee364fce4d649aa3@inbox.flaskmail.com> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 05:40 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: nice, i'm from Mauritius btw. did not know that south africa had it's own pycon. looked at the slides, nice topics ! Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ (https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ) Hi, I live in Madagascar and I had the opportunity to attend PyConZA last year. I have to say it's definitely a good event, and the people are quite helpful and open. Going back this year. Thomas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arj.python at gmail.com Wed Jul 11 12:54:01 2018 From: arj.python at gmail.com (Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:54:01 +0400 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects In-Reply-To: <14d562ed81f17f8bee364fce4d649aa3@inbox.flaskmail.com> References: <14d562ed81f17f8bee364fce4d649aa3@inbox.flaskmail.com> Message-ID: madagascar ^^_ greetings neighbour will try this year ! Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iwan at reahl.org Mon Jul 16 01:25:10 2018 From: iwan at reahl.org (Iwan Vosloo) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:25:10 +0200 Subject: [Python-africa] ongoing projects In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <741c72e3-a83f-db0e-4162-e8eaa4f42551@reahl.org> There are actually a number of PyCons happening in different places in Africa. South Africa is the oldest and biggest, but there are also pycons in Namibia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenia (that I know of). There are also various django girls and similar initiatives happening. (We should actually all contribute to https://africa.python.org so advertise whats going on here.) I'd also like to know that projects people are building themselves, here in Africa! On 11/07/2018 04:40, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > nice, i'm from Mauritius btw. did not know that south africa had it's > own pycon. looked at the slides, nice topics ! > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Regards Iwan -- Reahl, the Python only web framework / www.reahl.org From arj.python at gmail.com Mon Jul 16 02:11:03 2018 From: arj.python at gmail.com (Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:11:03 +0400 Subject: [Python-africa] Fwd: ongoing projects In-Reply-To: References: <741c72e3-a83f-db0e-4162-e8eaa4f42551@reahl.org> Message-ID: missed reply all Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018, 10:10 Subject: Re: [Python-africa] ongoing projects To: Iwan Vosloo for mauritius, not really. i tried searching for business applications, found django and the rare case of a foreign branch in here using for data-sci, not much except for learning and the pi else, for projects as such i have not yet heard of a real project ! Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, 09:46 Iwan Vosloo, wrote: > There are actually a number of PyCons happening in different places in > Africa. South Africa is the oldest and biggest, but there are also > pycons in Namibia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenia (that I know of). There are > also various django girls and similar initiatives happening. > > (We should actually all contribute to https://africa.python.org so > advertise whats going on here.) > > I'd also like to know that projects people are building themselves, here > in Africa! > > On 11/07/2018 04:40, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > nice, i'm from Mauritius btw. did not know that south africa had it's > > own pycon. looked at the slides, nice topics ! > > > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > > https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ > > Regards > Iwan > > -- > > Reahl, the Python only web framework / www.reahl.org > _______________________________________________ > Python-africa mailing list > Python-africa at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-africa > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iwan at reahl.org Tue Jul 24 01:39:42 2018 From: iwan at reahl.org (Iwan Vosloo) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 07:39:42 +0200 Subject: [Python-africa] Two more pycons Message-ID: <8e658649-c5c9-3da9-9576-aa794cb20359@reahl.org> I just realised there are three other PyCons (besides PyConZA) being organised in the coming months: PyCon Ghana: https://gh.pycon.org/ PyCon Zimbabwe: https://www.papercall.io/pyconzim2018 PyCon Nigeria: https://pycon.ng/ Are there any others coming up? Iwan -- Reahl, the Python only web framework / www.reahl.org