This is absolutely wonderful - the entire story as well as the project. Best wishes to Cyriac Gbogou and the initiative.
Sam On Jan 25, 2014 2:09 PM, "Florence Devouard" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be > our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory > Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou. > > Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in > the south west of the country and the capital of Ivorian cocoa, Cyriac > Gbogou runs for years a part of the African continent with his parents as a > student-resident respectively in Senegal, Togo, Mali and Congo-Brazzaville. > He finally returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and decided to pursue graduate > studies in computer science. He holds an engineering degree in Computer > Science. > > He gets married in August 2009. In 2010, he discovers the world of Web > 2.0. That same year, Cyriac chooses to not follow his employer IBM which > wanted to relocate its activities in Morocco because of the very sensitive > period in Cote d'Ivoire. Loving risk and adventure, he stays to serve his > country as volunteer in Akendewa (now former Secretary General). His > passion for social networks has grown during the post-electoral crisis of > 2011 working with other actors in the Ivorian web projects such as > Civsocial #, # Wonzomai who have saved lives with the Internet use [1]. > Cyriac is the Chairman of the Association des Blogueurs de Côte d'Ivoire > (A.B.C.I) > > Since September 2012, Cyriac Gbogou is an independent consultant, a job he > does with passion, as an advisor, speaker and trainer. He was named by his > peers "Village Chief" of the Ivorian web community. > You can also follow him on his blog where he speaks freely on topics: > www.cyriacgbogou.ci > > Whilst Cyriac is not (yet) a wikipedian, he is quite knowledgeable with > open source and related projects : he was involved in OSM Ivory Coast > mapping and coordinating mapping party or was involved in the jerry project > (http://youandjerrycan.org) including in the set up of Afripedia on a > jerry server. > > More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News > > Cyriac will have about two weeks to gain some familiarity with Wikimedia > projects before heading to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training > and start planning his activity in Ivory Coast. > > It would be great if some of you could welcome him on his (still red) talk > page :) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Cyriac_Gbogou > > Florence/Anthere > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
