After months of preparation, the Python African Tour has started with our first participating country, Morocco.
Thanks to the involvement and talents of Amine Souleymani and Daniel Nouri, we were able to introduce Python to students of EMI (Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs) in Rabat. Daniel blogged about his participation here.
A sprint also took place in Casablanca to get the PloneGov team and some african partners to work on Plone and PloneGov related stuff.
A detailed report of these first events and achievements will follow !
A big thank goes to our initial supporters and facilitarors:
- The PloneGov team for supporting the tour, by accepting our sprint idea and finding funding to help us with the organization costs for Morocco.
- The EMI students and staff who helped organizing the Rabat sessions. You can check their local site here. A special thank to Aida El manar El bouanani for her enthusiasm and hard coordination work.
- Nextma for supporting the sprint in their offices in Casablanca.
Next things that should happen:
- We are going to work for the next interested countries (Zambia, Senegal, Nigeria, etc) and the precise plan should be announced in January.
- We will make a proposal for involving the trained people on technologies, beyond the Python language, that they could use for enterprise projects.