[python-nigeria] Good Morning Everyone: Introduction.

Wed Dec 2 14:39:26 EST 2015

 Good Morning Everyone: Introduction.

I am Biola Oyeniyi, Co-founder at Tuteria (http://www.tuteria.com). It is
nice to actually stumble upon the python community here in Nigeria. looking
forward to be actively involved.

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>    1. Good Morning Everyone: Introduction (olabayo onile-ere)
>    2. Newcomer to Python (Adeniji Olamilekan)
>    3. My Official Introduction, DjangoGirls Lagos and the
>       Python-Nigeria Community (Aisha Bello)
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> Subject: [python-nigeria] Good Morning Everyone: Introduction
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> Hi everyone,
> I am Olabayo Onile-Ere and I am one of the admins that manage this awesome
> mailing list, I will start with an informal introduction.
> I am the lead developer at Hotels & Perks: www.hotelsnperks.com. I have
> been programming for a while but I recently picked up python ( about 1.5
> years) and? I must say it has been joy all through.
> I implemented our api/backend in python, must say I have been having a
> lovely experience, If I had to choose all over again I would definitely
> make the same choice.
> I hope to be able to contribute in anyway I can to the collective building
> of our vibrant community. I am encouraging everyone to also send an
> informal introduction so we can get to know a bit about us the python way
> (smiley..).
> Going forward I would love for us to maximize this mailing list by using
> it as a tool to drop feedback, comments or suggestions, events, news,
> anything python that you want the community to access.
> Again I say welcome to everyone, it is a real pleasure being a part of
> something as refreshing, creative and productive as this python community.?
> A big thank you to Naomi, Aisha and every python enthusiast here and
> everywhere.
> Have a beautiful day everyone and stay awesome.
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> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 01:08:50 -0800
> From: Adeniji Olamilekan <olamilec at gmail.com>
> To: python-nigeria at python.org
> Subject: [python-nigeria] Newcomer to Python
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> Hi everyone,
> I am Adeniji Olamilekan Richmond and I am the founder of mErgencyNG
> www.facebook.com/mergency247 am glad to be part of this mailing list
> though
> am off and on in python but I know with motivation from pythonistas here I
> will reach my desired goal and which am hoping to use in building
> application for my project.
> Also I welcome anyone that will love to be part of the project which focus
> on Disaster Management, Crime and Threat Quick Alert and Respond. Thanks to
> Aisha and Naomi cos their posts are what make me still on and appreciate
> Bayo for managing the mailing list, I also welcome all new comers like me,
> it's my pleasure being part of lovely like minded people in Python
> Community Nigeria.
> Thanks
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:20:39 +0000
> From: Aisha Bello <aishabello2050 at gmail.com>
> To: python-nigeria at python.org
> Subject: [python-nigeria] My Official Introduction, DjangoGirls Lagos
>         and the Python-Nigeria Community
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> Dear Pythonistas,
>
> My name is Aisha Bello. I am currently studying for a master's in
> Information Technology. I have been a DjangoGirl since July this year which
> was my first ever encounter to the beautiful world of Python. I am also
> doing my dissertation in the field of Data Minning and Machine learning and
> trying to predict future customer's profile of a hotel using Open source
> data mining tools and definitely implementing in Python :D. Among other
> things I am a Tech and Python community enthusiast and I am also helping to
> co-organize a DjangoGirls event in Windhoek at the PyCon Namibia happening
> in January, and it's a pleasure to virtually meet you all.
>
> DjangoGirls which is a global not for profit organization is focused on
> teaching women the basics of programming by learning how to build a website
> in #Html #CSS #Python and #Django. Since Inception in 2014 it has been held
> by volunteers all over the world in 51 countries, and I am excited that we
> would be hosting our first workshop in Lagos on the 20th of February with a
> pre-install party on the 19th.
>
> I would love to say thank you for all the positive feedback and support I
> have gotten from everyone here and I look forward to further
> correspondence. If you would like to be a mentor or knows a company who
> would like to sponsor the event find more details at
> www.djangogirls.org/lagos
>
> On Community, I am really passionate about growing the community and
> promoting python in Nigeria. Because I have your support; on the footer of
> the website, and also on the sponsorship proposal I have added that we have
> the support of the Nigerian Python community, and put a link to the mailing
> list on the website, hopefully that would provide more publicity for the
> list, so all passionate Nigerian Pythonistas can converge in one place and
> we can share ideas on how to move the community forward. After the
> DjangoGirls event we would have a thank you dinner for the coaches, I was
> thinking we could make it into the first meet and greet of the Nigerian
> Python Community and even if you can't be there to coach you can join us
> afterwards for the dinner. A round table discussion on everything community
> would be a very good way to startup. If you all are interested then we
> could talk more about it. I also plan on using all DjangoGirls platform to
> promote the Nigerian Python community via social media and to more groups I
> intend to reach out to.
> I am making other plans to submit a proposal at the PyCon Namibia
> conference about the Nigerian Python Community and DjangoGirls
> *fingersCrossed*. You all would agree that we have a beautiful story to
> tell as to how this came, about and I am more than happy to tell it,
> reaching out to other Nigerian pythonistas and garnering support and
> awareness from the Python community in other parts of Africa and in the
> globe as a whole. And who knows we might just be hosting the newest Python
> conference in Nigeria in a not too distant future. More importantly is to
> come up with ways on how to promote Python in Nigeria from the ground level
> up and using the power of code to change Nigeria as a whole, like what code
> for Nigeria is doing for primary and secondary school students among
> others.
>
> There's more to be said but I should stop here, apologies for the really
> long email *bad habit*. Many thanks for your time and I am looking forward
> to further talking and meeting all of you in person really soon :)
>
> Greetings,
>
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