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

[Chukwudi Nwachukwu]

Dear Osioke,

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On 4 January 2017 at 13:13, Osioke Itseuwa <osiokeitseuwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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