Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-08 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2013-10-04 06:13 PM, Daniele Procida 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

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-07 Thread Vernon D. Cole
It would be wonderful if this could be done. My question is: can it be done? The most populous nation in Africa (and therefore, we must presume, the one with the most Python programmers) is Nigeria. Getting an entrance visa here -- even a tourist visa -- is a challenging thing. It's not requ

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-06 Thread Daniele Procida
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013, Nigel Legg wrote: >I have lived in both Zambia and Kenya, and have family in Zambia. Bongo >Hive in Lusaka may be a good place to start (they are on twitter). I >haven't been there for more than five years, but would be interested in >getting involved in some way, time and w

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-06 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Hi, Great initiative! On Friday, October 4, 2013 6:13:44 PM UTC+2, Daniele Procida 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 a

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-06 Thread Lachlan Musicman
I'm pretty sure there are some django installs at Ushahidi as well? (I could be wrong) http://www.ushahidi.com L. On 5 October 2013 05:09, Alioune Dia wrote: > We are a community (http://blog.dakarlug.org/) based in Senegal since > 2008 and we operate in Free Software (OS and Software) and Pyth

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-04 Thread Alioune Dia
We are a community (http://blog.dakarlug.org/) based in Senegal since 2008 and we operate in Free Software (OS and Software) and Python is one of our favorite programming languages within our community. And we organize occasional sessions programing Python / Django. This would be a great privilege

Re: PyCons in Africa

2013-10-04 Thread Nigel Legg
I have lived in both Zambia and Kenya, and have family in Zambia. Bongo Hive in Lusaka may be a good place to start (they are on twitter). I haven't been there for more than five years, but would be interested in getting involved in some way, time and work permitting. Cheers, Nigel 07914 740972