Dear all,

I'm glad to invite you to episode 19 of WikiAfrica Hour, titled "*Free, Open & Cool.*"

This episode is dedicated to discussion around what criteria a tool should meet to be used in the Wikimedia and Open movement, tool development, and maintenance. The episode will include a watch-party of the 2022 Wikimedia Coolest tool awards.

The episode will host User:Eugene233 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eugene233, a volunteer developer in the Wikimedia movement. He is a member of the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedians_of_Cameroon_User_Group, and has worked with open source communities like CiviCRM https://www.civicrm.org/. He was a volunteer developer on Wikispeech https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikispeech with Wikimedia SE https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Sverige. He developed and is maintaining the FormWizard extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FormWizard for Mediawiki. He's one of the folks behind the ISA Tool https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool development and maintenance. He recently has been involved in the development of the Scribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scribe tool. He is currently assisting the Africa Wikimedia Developers Project https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project as technical lead, and mentoring developers under the Wiki Mentor Africa program.

Date: 16th December 2022 Time: 16:30 UTC Details: w.wiki/5dft

Regards, Ceslause Ogbonnaya *Host, WikiAfrica Hour*