We have been busy planning for the first country our Tour will feature: Morocco.

Amine Soulaymani, a developer living in Morocco, and Daniel Nouri have volunteered to participate as instructors for two groups of students at Ecole Mohammedia d’Ingenieurs, ­the school who has accepted to host these free Python introduction events in Rabat on December 18, 19, and 20.

After the fisrt 2 days dedicated to training, we would like to have at least 3 days of community activities: an unconference-style day with demos and talks, followed by a sprint to learn more and contribute.

A group of people from Belgium, participating to the PloneGov project, have agreed to join us, and co-sponsor the sprint, to work on Plone and PloneGov related stuff.

Other possible topics, still in discussion, are:

What we need to make sure all this can work:

  • A host for the sprint, since Ecole Mohammedia will only host us for the training and unconference part.
  • Other co-sponsors who could put money to help assist in the travel costs of Python developers who will participate, and contribute to the work that will be done.

­­Contact us and let’s discuss about this opportunity to promote Python in Africa and get new developers from that continent on board !

Filed November 1st, 2008 under Events, Morocco, Announcement