Hello Wikimedians,
Earlier this year we sent out a notice of our intentions to rebrand the "African Wikimedia Developers Project" to "African Wikimedia Technical Community" which will involve not only developers but other technical contributors like: Designers, translators for localization, Documentation writers, Data Science Professionals (Data Scientists,Data Analysts, Machine Learning Engineers, AI professionals and NLP Specialists) and QA Engineers from Automated Testers to Manual Tester.
We put out a survey as part of the rebranding process seeking your opinion of the change of name and whether or not the African technical community is in agreement with it. The survey results saw 93.8% in support of the name and the idea behind it with just 6.3% opposing the idea. Considering the results from the survey, we are proceeding with the name African Wikimedia Technical Community
Following the change of name, we encourage all members or new members to Sign Up here https://forms.gle/Yq5Ed8uZqnRJmUpbA to be registered as official members of the community.
We are super grateful for your contribution during the rebranding process, we have exciting projects you would totally love to be a part of. One of these projects is the *AWMT Community- OFWA Hackathon*.
For more information about the hackathon, visit the landing page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_WikiMedia_Technical_Community_-_OFWA_Hackathon#Join_the_Open_Foundation_West_Africa_commmunity .
Cheers!