[python-uk] PyCons in Africa

[Damilare Onajole]

This is a massive initiative. I was born and lived in Nigeria, until two
years ago, before moving to the UK. In 2010, I was part of a team who
deployed an election monitoring system for the country written in
python/django using SMS technologies based on RapidSMS and other tools. The
team have now used same software in other African countries.

Having been to my first PyCon at Coventry few weeks ago, I think Python
Africa Tour is the closest we've had, and the problem, usually is fewer
available experienced Python programmers, to share knowledge and strengthen
local capacity. But the good thing is most African countries are either
francophone or English speaking, so resource transfer should be smooth.


Yours Sincerely

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Damilare Onajole
Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom

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On 4 October 2013 17:13, Daniele Procida <daniele at vurt.org> wrote:

> First of all, apologies if you have to read this more than once because of
> the cross-posting.
>
> I've had an idea brewing recently.
>
> I went to meet Professor Judith Hall this afternoon to talk about it.
> She's involved with http://medicine.cardiff.ac.uk/mothers-africa/(amongst other things) and is working on a Cardiff University project which
> itself is part of
> http://wales.gov.uk/topics/health/improvement/index/grants/?lang=en
>
> Following that meeting, I bashed out:
> https://github.com/evildmp/pycons-in-africa/ - please take a look, and
> even better, let me know what you think, or make your own contribution to
> the document. I'll continue working on it myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniele
>
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