This is a quick update to inform you of what could happen in 2009.
We’ve been having discussions and started work for organizing a Python event with training, democamp, and sprint in Senegal, and possibly in Zambia too, this year. If you are based in one of these regions or have partners there, and you see an opportunity to help or participate, get in touch with me (kamon dot ayeva at gmail.com).
Also, this project will be featured at the talk “Giving back and helping expand the Python community. A roadmap for South America and Africa“, at PyCon in Chicago next month. Roberto Allende and myself are going to present our ideas to spread Python in new regions, taking South America and Africa as examples. After the talk, we hope to contribute more by organizing discussions and some kind of advocacy mini-sprint in one of the Open Space rooms.
