Dear Community Members

The 2022 African Wikimedia Technical Community Hackathon which is a hybrid event is scheduled to take place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July 2022 respectively.

We will be introducing the following contribution areas during the hackathon: website, security, front-end, back-end, documentation and translation. By participating in the hackathon, you have the opportunity to work on issues that matter to you and advance your skills/experience while joining this regional, diverse and inclusive team of contributors and the African Wikimedia Technical team members.

This event is calling on volunteers who are interested in Wikimedia’s technical areas such as code creators, maintainers, translators, technical writers and other technical roles.

By this email, we are placing a call on volunteers who are willing to lead and host sessions. These sessions can be under any Wikimedia technical project, topic or technical area of interest like, Wikidata, translation, etc.

You are welcome to bring a new project on board or join an existing project, or create something new with others.

The choice is yours!

You are by this email invited to participate in this year’s Hackathon.

Kindly fill out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zNaTqJZ24e8knuJkLepNcV4WDkwDOiSLnPGRwi40OdA/editto participate as well as give details of your Session if you are interested in organizing one.

For more information, visit our meta page. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Open_Foundation_West_Africa_Community_Hackathon_2022

Date: Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July 2022.

Venue: OFWA Premises, Opp Bosphorus, Labone

Time: 10:00 UTC - 15: 00 UTC

NB: For those who will be joining us virtually, a link will be shared soon.

Best Regards [image: AWMT Final flyer.png]