[python-nigeria] 2016: The Year in Review… And Onward!

[Osioke Itseuwa]

NICE!!!

Sorry for the all caps, but I couldn't hide my excitement.

I'm a new member here, joined the mailing list after it was shared on
Devcenter's Square about a week ago. Please how can I join the Slack
channel?

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Tosin Damilare James Animashaun <
acetakwas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Pythonistas,
>
> We are delighted to welcome you all into the new year.
>
> The year 2016 was an amazing one for this community; we had a number of
> noteworthy achievements, and we would like to thank everyone for being part
> of it. Although it had been our year of infancy, we did show so much
> potential for rapid growth.
>
>
> Here are some of the high points of the year 2016.
>
> In the month of February, we had a successful maiden edition of the Django
> Girls workshop, which has quickly spread across the country, courtesy of
> your amazing spirits. To this end, we want to specially thank all
> organizers, mentors,  sponsors, and supporters all too numerous to mention.
> It has been a delight to watch more workshops come up all over the country
> especially in some hard to reach areas.
>
> As an organized community, we held our first in-Slack elections in the
> month of May. This helped us charge a group of individuals (Nwachukwu
> Chukwudi (@ichux), Aisha Bello (@aishab), Biola Oyeniyi (@b33sama),
> Hamdalah Adetunji (@geekhijabi), Eyitemi Egbejule (@insaida), Osayamen
> (@oxax), Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu), Tosin Animashaun (@acetakwas)) with the
> responsibilities of governing the community, planning, and corresponding
> with partners/potential partners of this organization. Later in the year,
> upon voting by the aforementioned, invitations were sent to two more
> members of the community to join the Board: Tim Akinbo (@takinbo) and
> Edward Popoola (@edwardpopoola).
>
> Furthermore, we set up a technical team headed by our IT Manager, Biola
> Oyeniyi (@b33sama), to help with handling the technology needs of the
> community. This team was able to put up our website, which is located at
> pythonnigeria.org. We also appreciate Kingsley (@kingsley) for coming up
> with the official logo of the community. The team has other projects to
> complete, and welcomes everyone interested in joining.
>
> Also, our social media accounts (twitter.com/pythonnigeria and
> instagram.com/pythonnigeria) were setup not too long ago, and we encourage
> everyone to promote information shared via any of these mediums.
>
> Our Chairperson, Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux) and Tomiwa Orolu (@tmdoubleu)
> became Grants Committee members of the Python Software Foundation (PSF)
> during the course of the year, 2016.
>
> Even more, the goodwill and work of our Vice Chairperson, Aisha Bello, have
> been recognized globally -- she represented us at the DjangoCon US 2016 and
> even won a Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize award only a few weeks ago.
>
> With support from a team drawn from members of the community, we have begun
> making efforts at planning towards a PyCon Nigeria. Having made some
> progress with this, we hope to see it come to light in the year 2017.
>
> In the month of December, we had a successful commencement of the Smart
> Girls project in partnership with the Carrington Youth Fellowship
> Initiative (CYFI), and we hope to round this off in the first quarter of
> 2017. We would Like to recognize the following volunteers so far, who have
> taken turns to mentor and coach the girls: Michael Okpala (@mikedeace),
> Elohor Thomas (@elohor), Osayamen Omigie (@oxax), Tosin Animashaun
> (@acetakwas), and Nwachukwu Chukwudi (@ichux). We still are looking for
> volunteers to coach. Therefore, you may reach out on the #cyfi-smart-girls
> Slack channel if you would like to mentor.
>
> We also got funded by the PSF to provide Raspberry PI computers to some of
> the participating girls.
>
> Recently, we have been in talks with a burgeoning Data Science community in
> Nigeria. The prospects are big, and we are to partner with them in getting
> the program off the ground. You'll learn more about this soon in the
> #pydata Slack channel. Anyone with interest can join that channel and make
> known their interest.
>
> We encourage everyone to make use of the channels available (mailing list
> or Slack) in sharing their experience with the rest of the community.
> Always feel free to ask questions, make contributions, or raise suggestions
> any time.
>
> We are happy about the growth of the community so far (Wow! Over 300
> members already). This year, let us surpass this. Keep innovating; keep
> building; and keep empowering!
>
> Have a *pythonic* year!
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> *Tosin Damilare James Animashaun*
>
> For: *Board, Python Users Nigeria Group*
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