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We are Moving to Slack
by Perside Rosalie 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hello all, 🎅Happy new month!🎅 We have heard a lot of your complains about the difficulties you face trying to attend meetings on IRC. We decided to check with a few of you what could best suit and ease your learning comfort. We then created an AWMD Slack channel. https://join.slack.com/t/africawikimed-3v51250/shared_invite/enQtODU1OTQ2Mz… The IRC channel remains available and welcoming but we shall be hosting most of our meetings and discussions on Slack. We are hoping this platform will be more comfortable for you all in acquiring skills and getting engaged. *Note: The link expires after 30 days from now, so please join as soon as you can.* *Personal thought:* On a side note, a good thing to have will be a bot that brings all slack conversations to IRC in real-time, just to have the 2 channels in sync. If anyone is interested in doing that please write to me, let talk about it and hopefully build it. :) Best, Rosalie On behalf of the Core Team. -- <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…> Perside Rosalie about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Slack confirmation code: 881-067
by Slack 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Confirm your email address Thank you for signing up for Slack. We’re happy you’re here! Enter the following code in the window where you began creating your new Slack workspace: 881-067 This email contains private information for your Slack account — please don’t forward it. Questions about setting up Slack? Email us at feedback(a)slack.com.

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Urgent need for advanced python programmers
by Felix Nartey 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hello All, An organisation wants an *advanced python programmer *for a 6 month contract. If you meet the needed requirement please send me the following: - Your CV - GIT repos/username No promises but an advantage for AWMD members. Best, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Board Chair * *Website: Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | **+4915202421275* *Skype:Flixtey*

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Leaderboard Statistics for AWMD published for the months October 2019
by Egbe Eugene 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Dear Developers, We will like to thank you for your participation and contribution to the Wikimedia projects with the goodwill of writing code. This month we will like to colorfully mark two of or able and consistent developers @Zoranzoki21 and @Ammarpad who devote their time to submit patches during this time period. We urge that you please tell us everything we need to do to help with your developer works which is the main reason why we are working together. Subsequently, we will send out messages about next important steps. Thanks very much for you replies. Cheers, Eugene

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AWMD Ask Me Anything meeting on Saturday
by Perside Rosalie 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hello all, As mentioned in my last email, we have an *Ask Me Anything* meeting this Saturday on IRC from 1pm to 6pm UTC+1. Considering some of us will be attending WIkiIndaba conference in Nigeria, feel free to join the meeting any time between 1-6pm with your concerns questions or even just to spy ;). When: *Saturday 9th*. Time: *1-6pmUTC+1* Where: IRC on freenode.net *#wikimedia-dev-africa* About: Contributing code to Mediawiki, AWMD, Programing or software development. Anything. *Note:* Everyone can ask questions and everyone can answer. Questions must not be directed to particular individuals and should have learning objective. Hope to have you all then. Best, -- <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…> Perside Rosalie about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Updates From the Core team
by Perside Rosalie 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Dear developers, Hope you are having a good weekend. First I would like to apologize for the recent silence from the core team concerning your request for meetings. We have had some changes in the team and we had to take some time to re-plan and restructure our goals and meeting cultures. *==SAD news==* Derick who was the Techlead for the project is no more with us. He had to follow on some other projects and decided to leave for now. We are happy to have had him among us and we wish him all the best for the next moves. Samuel Guebo who was partnership manager also left the core team due to a new role he has within wikimedia that warrant him to leave core positions in local communities including AWMD. He is still with us in the project and continue to contribute. We are happy he was part of the core and grateful for his great contributions to the core team. We are also happy he is still part of the project. *==GOOD News==* Eugene will be joining us to keep this project running smoothly. He will handle the position of Tech lead and will assist volunteers in engagement. He is very happy to work with us and we are very excited to have him on board. We will have our first Debug time meeting Also known as *Ask Me Anything(AMA) *Next Saturday 9th November from *1pm to 6pm. *on our IRC channel *#wikimedia-dev-africa. Please do not miss it as it is the beginning of new ways of doing things. *We want to see how it works for you. Reply to this mail with any question if you have one. Thank you and have a nice weekend, see you on IRC. Rosalie -- <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…> Perside Rosalie about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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[TAIM] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Leszek Manicki 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. *Note the time change due to Berlin having switched to winter time!* Questions can be asked in English. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. This week we have a special theme, related to the upcoming Wikimedia Technical Conference focusing on Developer Productivity. In particular we're interested in hearing about your experiences with developer productivity in the context of your work with on-wiki tools (gadgets, templates, modules, etc). Your input is going to be useful for the "Developer Productivity & onwiki tooling" ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661) session held at the Conference next week. Hope to see you there! -- Leszek Manicki Engineering Manager Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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[TAIM] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Leszek Manicki 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. *Note the time change due to Berlin having switched to winter time!* Questions can be asked in English, and Spanish! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you already know what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! -- Leszek Manicki Engineering Manager Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Leaderboard Statistics for AWMD published for the months July-September 2019
by Egbe Eugene 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Hello, I hope this email finds you well in your little corners where you seek make the dream of the AWMD project and the Wikimedia movement a reality. We acknowledge the delay in publishing the stats of the previous months from July till last month. Nevertheless, the stats for the months of *July - September* have been published [1]. We will like to say a thank you to the developers who have been consistent on the leaderboard during this time period especially (@Ammarpad and @Zoranzoki21). We encourage you to keep making great contribution to foster the vision of the AWMD project Please also do well to use our tool to see the full list of contributors who made contributions during this period. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213581 Cheers, Eugene

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Announcing: First Quarterly Technical Community Newsletter!
by Sarah R 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi Everyone, We’re happy to announce the launch of the brand new quarterly Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter>. The newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Developer Advocacy Team. It aims to share highlights, news, and information of interest from and about the Wikimedia technical community. The First Edition of the Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2019/October> launches today! Find out more about what technical contributors have been up to this past quarter, upcoming conferences & calls for papers, and how to get involved. Like all good things, the first edition starts as a prototype. Some ideas we had in mind for additional sections/categories are “Tool of the Season”, “Wikimedia in numbers” (i.e. around code review, new developer accounts, etc). Ideas about what you would like to see and highlights you would like to share are welcome <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Community_Newsletter>! Subscribe to the Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/Subscribe>, if you'd like to keep up with essential updates and information. Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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