PyCons in Africa

[Daniele Procida]

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

[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
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[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 a PyCon in Africa. Opportunity to rub shoulders with
the core Python programmers.

Thank
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2013/10/4 Daniele Procida <dan...@vurt.org>:

[Amirouche Boubekki]

Hi,

Great initiative!

[Lachlan Musicman]

I'm pretty sure there are some django installs at Ushahidi as well? (I
could be wrong)

http://www.ushahidi.com

L.

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[Daniele Procida]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013, Nigel Legg <nigel...@gmail.com> 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 work permitting.

Hi Nigel, tahnks for the reply - <http://groups.google.com/group/pycons-in-africa>.

Hope to see you there!

Daniele

[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 required for citizens of nearby nations, but really a pain for Europeans or Americans.
Airline tickets are expensive, even on European wages. Most locals could not afford a ticket. One wonders whether their employers can.  If a suitable venue can be found in a more visitor-friendly nation, can enough attendees get there to be worthwhile?

I am not saying "don't try" but there are some hurdles to overcome.  I have joined the mailing list and will help out if I can.
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[Alex Strickland]

This just happened in Cape Town:

http://za.pycon.org/

I didn't go (or know about it at the time).

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