This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all, > > I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] > AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers > for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a > conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was > followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks > was concluded on how to further put this to work. > > The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers > who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement > at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and > the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with > affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and > other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, > etc.) to push this agenda. > > To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training > in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a > useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to > have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for > about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase > of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to > emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and > endorse the grant proposal > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> > of our first training in Ghana here.[2] > > All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are > invited to join the mailing list > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, > our social media outfit (facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter > <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of > the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their > communities and to others who may be interested. > > Stay tuned for more updates soon! > > Cheers, > -- > *Felix Nartey* > *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* > *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* > *+233242844987 | +447440959477* > *Skype:Flixtey* > > > [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project > > [2] - > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers > > [3] - > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers > > [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ > [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > -- *Sherry-Ann L. Antoine, MPA* Program Manager and Outreach Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCrowd) Afrocrowd.org p: (718) 772-4802 [email protected] [email protected] Skype: Sherry37121
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