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[15:11:03] <wikibugs>	 10Africa-Wikimedia-Developers, 10Developer-Relations: Africa Wikimedia Developers IRC general meeting #7 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185806#4267288 (10rosalieper)
[16:00:02] <r054l13>	 Hello here!
[16:02:27] <africanhope>	 r054l13: hi
[16:02:31] <africanhope>	 How you doing?
[16:02:42] <r054l13>	 I am fine and you?
[16:03:00] <africanhope>	 r054l13: Doing great by the grace of God
[16:03:18] <r054l13>	 Nice
[16:03:21] <africanhope>	 I am on time, this time
[16:03:39] <africanhope>	 Sorry I missed the other monthly meeting
[16:03:42] <r054l13>	 yea :)
[16:03:48] <r054l13>	 IT's fine
[16:04:11] <r054l13>	 maybe we should give some time for the others to join
[16:04:17] <africanhope>	 Sure
[16:04:18] <r054l13>	 like say 10 mins?
[16:04:29] <africanhope>	 sounds good
[16:04:44] <africanhope>	 opentechno: are you around?
[16:07:13] <opentechno>	 africanhope: yes 
[16:07:46] <opentechno>	 africanhope: I am here
[16:07:49] <africanhope>	 nice, which IRC client are you using?
[16:08:16] <opentechno>	 africanhope: irc.freenode.net
[16:09:03] <africanhope>	 opentechno: Ah ok maybe I could recommend it to one of our compatriots trying to join the channel 
[16:09:28] <mukaram>	 Hello
[16:09:46] <africanhope>	 well irc.freenode.net isn't a client but I got it
[16:10:22] <r054l13>	 mukaram: Hello
[16:10:25] <africanhope>	 mukaram: welcome 
[16:10:42] <opentechno>	 africanhope: What is it?
[16:11:22] <opentechno>	 africanhope: What is it(irc.freenode.net)?
[16:11:22] <africanhope>	 the server to which your IRC client connects
[16:11:38] <africanhope>	 Are you using Linux?
[16:11:38] <r054l13>	 mukaram: never seen you around before can you please give a small intro about yourself?
[16:13:12] <opentechno>	 africanhope: what is the name of the client that we use?
[16:14:14] <africanhope>	 opentechno: I will get back to you on that later. I will let r054l13 shepherd the meeting.
[16:14:16] <opentechno>	 africanhope: is it "#wikimedia-dev-africa"?
[16:15:11] <africanhope>	 mukaram: are you still there?
[16:15:49] <r054l13>	 opentechno: #wikimedia-dev-africa is a channel
[16:16:15] <r054l13>	 seems mukaram will reply later
[16:16:33] <africanhope>	 r054l13: mukaram and opentechno: are from Cote d'Ivoire. Since you notified us of the upcoming meeting quite early, the local community had more time to be reminded.
[16:16:54] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Great, I am glad
[16:17:07] <africanhope>	 r054l13: hope more will join us
[16:17:23] <mukaram>	 Hi again. I am Mukaram Ahipeau, active member of awmd at the Ivory Coast
[16:17:49] <r054l13>	 I was hoping Felix and Derick would be with us to day but well I will try to reach out to them and remind them
[16:18:10] <r054l13>	 mukaram: You are very much welcome.
[16:19:02] <r054l13>	 One objective of this meeting is for us to hear from the new guys
[16:19:12] <mukaram>	 How are you?
[16:19:23] <r054l13>	 mukaram: I am fine and U?
[16:19:49] <r054l13>	 So this is the agenda of the meeting https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185806
[16:20:16] <africanhope>	 r054l13: ok, will help take some notes
[16:20:37] <r054l13>	 africanhope: OOh that will be very helpful. Thank you
[16:21:03] <r054l13>	 some times I have to finish the meeting then read through the logs to make the notes :(
[16:21:45] <r054l13>	 looking at the first point,
[16:22:35] <africanhope>	 r054l13: ohh that's unfair
[16:22:43] <r054l13>	 I have a few question for mukaram and opentechno. Please 
[16:23:05] <opentechno>	 r054l13: I listen you
[16:23:08] <r054l13>	 africanhope: haha, well it happends at times
[16:23:58] <africanhope>	 this time we'll make this meeting a fairer place :)
[16:24:04] <mukaram>	 Yes
[16:24:20] <africanhope>	 So please go ahead with your questions towards new comers
[16:24:33] <r054l13>	 ok opentechno can You please tell us more about yourself please(Like, when you joined AWMD, how is the experience in the community for you)
[16:25:01] <r054l13>	 the mukaram you will also share your experience
[16:25:22] <r054l13>	 opentechno: you have the floor
[16:25:30] <r054l13>	 then*
[16:27:30] <r054l13>	 Please it may not be too long :-)
[16:29:48] <r054l13>	 opentechno: are you still there?
[16:30:14] <opentechno>	 networking and skills news develop 
[16:31:16] <opentechno>	 r054l13: networking, skills news develop in programming also English
[16:31:46] <mukaram>	 Ah okay halfway I would say that my experience with awmd is very good, rubbing samuel brings me a lot in terms of learning as a developer.
[16:31:46] <mukaram>	 I had never worked on git and commit, push, pull .... What is now the case I know better the advantage of a dev to work via github.
[16:31:46] <mukaram>	 And on the project noun-uploader this has pushed me to discover Node Js technology and everything.
[16:31:46] <mukaram>	 I hope to contribute and work on more projects to improve myself. Let's say I expect a lot of AWMD as a developer
[16:32:48] <r054l13>	 Great I am happing you guys are learning
[16:33:53] <r054l13>	 So I guess the experience Is amazing
[16:34:11] <r054l13>	 what are your key expectations from AWMD?
[16:34:16] <opentechno>	 r054l13: of course
[16:34:34] <r054l13>	 opentechno: :D
[16:35:53] <r054l13>	 what are your key expectations from AWMD?
[16:38:32] <opentechno>	 r054l13: live meetings, session coding live to improve our skills, hackathon day of 48 hours to work on the project, tracking  and report members 
[16:38:43] <mukaram>	 In terms of waiting I would like to work on more projects in teams with devs from other countries. That all the dev of the communities have the chance to work on projects whatever their level of knowledge. And that it is more events, AWMD conferences to promote maximun the technology and the spirit mediawiki
[16:40:37] <r054l13>	 I like the idea of Live meetings, if we organise one I hope you all will be present :). I will really like to see you guys. haha
[16:41:11] <r054l13>	 opentechno: those are all great ideas, thanks for replying
[16:41:41] <r054l13>	 mukaram: I also, like your idea of small projects in teams
[16:42:16] <mukaram>	 Yes Yes
[16:42:59] <r054l13>	 mukaram: AWMD Conferences!!! You think big :D. Its a good idea as well Thanks for sharring
[16:43:16] <mukaram>	 Yes it will help us a lot to improve
[16:43:36] <r054l13>	 Yea in deed.
[16:43:37] <africanhope>	 Some superb ideas that were written down successfully. 
[16:43:43] <africanhope>	 :)
[16:43:56] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Thank you very much.
[16:44:12] <r054l13>	 I am really enjoying the meeting of today :)
[16:44:29] <africanhope>	 ahah don't tell me about it
[16:44:34] <r054l13>	 Guys another question please
[16:44:47] <r054l13>	 africanhope: haha
[16:44:49] <opentechno>	 r054l13: why not hackathon day to fix the bugs with a reward
[16:45:22] <r054l13>	 :-0 oh great one
[16:45:28] <mukaram>	 We need a live conference or we can exchange between each awmd member of various community and give good guidance, share ideas to better move awmd movement
[16:45:33] <opentechno>	 r054l13: for the best team
[16:46:01] <r054l13>	 mukaram:  yea true
[16:46:10] <r054l13>	 opentechno: yea I understand
[16:46:43] <r054l13>	 opentechno: Please could you tell us what is your greates challenge so far in the community and in Contributing?
[16:47:37] <opentechno>	 r054l13: also a annual program of all activities we should organized 
[16:49:00] <r054l13>	 opentechno: It will be a good idea for country leads to discuss all this ideas.
[16:49:09] <r054l13>	 Thanks once more
[16:49:22] <r054l13>	 PLease could you answer this?
[16:49:26] <r054l13>	 opentechno: Please could you tell us what is your greates challenge so far in the community and in Contributing?
[16:53:18] <africanhope>	 Wow is it my browser or did someone just translate the minutes into French?
[16:53:19] <opentechno>	 r054l13: my improve of the language English and my first bug fix for moment
[16:55:14] <africanhope>	 Who vandalized the minutes? lol
[16:55:18] <r054l13>	 africanhope: :-0
[16:55:39] <r054l13>	 I just checked it, it was translated indeed
[16:56:17] <r054l13>	 opentechno: I mean what are your difficulties
[16:56:24] <africanhope>	 :) this is probably one of my fellow compatriots
[16:56:33] <r054l13>	 :)
[16:59:20] <r054l13>	 mukaram: are you still arround?
[17:00:27] <opentechno>	 r054l13: the difficulties that I meet is it? at what about?
[17:01:36] <r054l13>	 yes
[17:02:18] <opentechno>	 r054l13: At what about precisely?
[17:02:57] <r054l13>	 In Contributing and around AWMD
[17:03:05] <r054l13>	 if there is any ofcourse
[17:04:32] <opentechno>	 r054l13: I do not find the easy tasks(bug) to do
[17:06:01] <r054l13>	 ok, So you need help on getting simple tasks to get started
[17:06:21] <africanhope>	 (Vandal of the minutes has been found, edits were reverted and the minutes are safe now. Houston we are clear.)
[17:06:30] <opentechno>	 r054l13: because I am beginner in programmation 
[17:06:39] <r054l13>	 africanhope: YAY!!
[17:06:59] <r054l13>	 opentechno: I understand
[17:07:02] <mukaram>	 Yes
[17:07:51] <r054l13>	 mukaram: Can you tell us what difficulties you usualy encounter? please
[17:08:07] <opentechno>	 r054l13: Also I improve me by "africanhope"
[17:08:57] <r054l13>	 Great!, I know he is doing a great job there. :)
[17:08:58] <opentechno>	 r054l13: that I thank very much for support
[17:09:22] <r054l13>	 :D
[17:09:52] <r054l13>	 mukaram: are you still with us?
[17:11:37] <mukaram>	 Yes
[17:11:54] <r054l13>	 mukaram: Can you tell us what difficulties you usualy encounter? please
[17:12:29] <opentechno>	 r054l13: Yes, I need help to get simple tasks mostly with the programming language Python
[17:13:11] <r054l13>	 ok
[17:13:18] <africanhope>	 r054l13: indeed opentechno has a particular interest for Python programming
[17:13:39] <r054l13>	 Ok we have just 15 minutes left so let go to the next point
[17:13:50] <opentechno>	 r054l13:It's my speciality futur like programming language
[17:14:27] <r054l13>	 Ok, we will get you simple tasks
[17:14:39] <r054l13>	 Hello Slyonline 
[17:14:44] <r054l13>	 Welcome
[17:15:01] <opentechno>	 r054l13: Thank you very much
[17:15:15] <r054l13>	 next point: Volunteer Members of different communities should join Africa-Wikimedia-Developers project on phab as members and/or watchers to track activities and take part in solving bugs :). This should be lead by country leads.
[17:15:22] <mukaram>	 Welcome Sylvain
[17:15:24] <africanhope>	 Slyonline: welcome
[17:16:18] <Slyonline>	 Thanks and sorry 
[17:16:25] <opentechno>	 Slyonline: are you  here?
[17:16:29] <Slyonline>	 i'm late
[17:16:40] <r054l13>	 Please is there anyone who has not join africa-Wikimedia-Developers on phabricator
[17:17:12] <Slyonline>	 yes @opentechno , i'm there
[17:17:26] <africanhope>	 Slyonline: no worries, better late than never they say
[17:17:45] <africanhope>	 r054l13: Slyonline is another fellow from CIV
[17:18:54] <r054l13>	 Sorry was replying a mail
[17:19:02] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Cool :)
[17:19:48] <r054l13>	 Slyonline: can you please introduce yourselve?
[17:20:22] <Slyonline>	 Ok! 
[17:20:48] <Slyonline>	 I'm Sylvain DJAVA , i'm from Cote d'ivoire -Abidjan
[17:22:01] <r054l13>	 you are welcome
[17:22:22] <Slyonline>	 Thank's 
[17:22:43] <r054l13>	 You will just have to read through the longs on what we did before you came
[17:23:01] <r054l13>	 Coming back to where we left guys
[17:23:10] <r054l13>	 Please is there anyone who has not join africa-Wikimedia-Developers on phabricator
[17:24:02] <africanhope>	 opentechno, mukaram and slyonline have already joined the Phab group
[17:24:51] <r054l13>	 Ok then we can move on
[17:25:00] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Thanks for replying
[17:25:30] <r054l13>	 Thinking of hosting a small / mini online space hackathon to solve issues on various MW extensions next weekends. Hashtag: #awmd-hack, for developers to make at least 1 contribution into any WM project code base.
[17:26:22] <r054l13>	 I think opentechno mentioned something like that
[17:26:54] <africanhope>	 r054l13: Indeed, and that would be a nice idea. May I suggest to choose a date that will give enough time to notify and engage as much individuals as possible. 
[17:28:13] <r054l13>	 africanhope: YeaH that is a good point as well
[17:29:04] <r054l13>	 So as for me I got nothing more to add
[17:30:05] <opentechno>	 same to you
[17:30:25] <r054l13>	 with that said we can say the meeting is over
[17:30:42] <r054l13>	 if ofcourse no one has something to say as well or add
[17:30:47] <opentechno>	 let's go point next
[17:30:59] <africanhope>	 sure
[17:31:00] <r054l13>	 opentechno: The points are finish
[17:31:17] <r054l13>	 so the meeting got to end for now :)
[17:31:43] <r054l13>	 Thank you all for being part and mostly for all your amazing contributions
[17:31:49] <Slyonline>	 is there a report of the meeting?
[17:32:01] <africanhope>	 Yes, right there
[17:32:02] <africanhope>	 nice, one last recommendation would be to 
[17:32:02] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Thank you for helping with notes
[17:32:09] <africanhope>	 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AWMD_IRC-Meeting-7
[17:32:11] <r054l13>	 Slyonline: Yes
[17:32:12] <bam_>	 Hi!
[17:32:17] <r054l13>	 Hi bam_ 
[17:32:27] <bam_>	 I was mistaken by the chanel
[17:32:27] <africanhope>	 bam_: Hello mate
[17:32:33] <Slyonline>	 OK! Good
[17:32:39] <bam_>	 hi r054l13\
[17:32:45] <r054l13>	 Slyonline: check the link africanhope sent
[17:33:00] <africanhope>	 I am moving to another meeting right now, take care everyone!
[17:33:03] <Slyonline>	 ok i check it
[17:33:04] <bam_>	 Hi africanhope
[17:33:07] <r054l13>	 bam_: we are glad you finaly made it
[17:33:13] <africanhope>	 r054l13: You did great, once again :)
[17:33:24] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Ok hope you enjoy the next meeting you have
[17:33:31] <r054l13>	 africanhope: Thanks :)
[17:33:47] <opentechno>	 r054l13: okay, I seen it in the desciption
[17:34:01] <r054l13>	 bam_:  https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AWMD_IRC-Meeting-7
[17:34:28] <bam_>	 already there
[17:34:31] <r054l13>	 You can have a look at the minutes, The meeting today was very interesting
[17:34:38] <r054l13>	 bam_: cool :)
[17:35:25] <opentechno>	 r054l13: great job and thank you very much
[17:36:03] <r054l13>	 opentechno: Thank you too
[17:36:48] <opentechno>	 r054l13: you assuranced
[17:37:32] <bam_>	 r054l13: you're doing great for the community. Thank you indeed!
[17:37:54] <opentechno>	 r054l13: you are a leader great
[17:38:29] <r054l13>	 bam_: We are all doing great :) Thank you too
[17:39:08] <r054l13>	 opentechno: Aww! I am blushing. hahaha. Thanks
[17:39:34] <r054l13>	 Hope to have you guys around always or atleast often
[17:40:21] <opentechno>	 everybody, have a nice day, see you soon
[17:40:29] <r054l13>	 see you soon
[17:40:47] <bam_>	 Is there anyone here ready for Wikimedia Technical Conference
[17:41:06] <r054l13>	 when is that?
[17:41:09] <opentechno>	 bam_: me
[17:41:34] <bam_>	 so that we can support?  https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2018
[17:41:42] <opentechno>	 bam_: when and where?
[17:42:22] <opentechno>	 bam_: introduce yourself, please?
[17:42:26] <bam_>	 October 22–25, 2018 — Portland, Oregon
[17:42:40] <bam_>	 dev from the drcongo
[17:43:14] <bam_>	 free software and free culture enthusiast
[17:43:38] <bam_>	 leader of wikimedians of the drc
[17:43:47] <opentechno>	 bam_: cool
[17:44:00] <opentechno>	 bam_: me too
[17:44:29] <r054l13>	 bam_: I will be glad to contribute
[17:44:30] <opentechno>	 bam_: I work with free technologies and open source
[17:45:19] <bam_>	 I dont know how you didnt read the mail on the mailing list
[17:45:37] <bam_>	 it was send by Egbe Eugene
[17:46:20] <r054l13>	 Oh I have been very busy This days
[17:46:31] <r054l13>	 surely overlooked the mail :(
[17:46:37] <r054l13>	 will check it out
[17:46:43] <r054l13>	 Thanks for mentioning
[17:47:12] <r054l13>	 bam_: DO the offer scholarship for volunteers
[17:47:23] <r054l13>	 Scholarship to attend?
[17:47:23] <bam_>	 I'd like to see one of us attending that conf.
[17:47:37] <bam_>	 do check nomination process
[17:48:20] <r054l13>	 ok thank you
[17:48:25] <bam_>	 My wish is to point someone of us and all of us vote 
[17:48:36] <bam_>	 for him
[17:48:45] <bam_>	 we can still continue via email
[17:48:53] <r054l13>	 Ok
[17:49:10] <r054l13>	 I will send an email concerning that as a reminder
[17:49:47] <r054l13>	 You can point your idea as well via email. feel free to
[17:52:01] <opentechno>	 r054l13: please, introduce yourself?
[17:53:10] <bam_>	 is there anything elseM
[17:53:13] <bam_>	 else?
[17:55:27] <opentechno>	 bam_: no
[17:55:33] <r054l13>	 opentechno: I am an active volunteer contributor just like you and a member of the AWMD core team also a member of the Code of conduct comittee(CoC)
[17:55:54] <bam_>	 nice to have discussed with you. Do well and don't hesitate to ask for help or propose something on the mailing list
[17:56:14] <r054l13>	 In case you may be wandering, I am Rosalie, from Cameroon
[17:57:35] <opentechno>	 r054l13: cool
[17:57:48] <opentechno>	 bye bye
[17:57:58] <bam_>	 bye. enjoy your evening
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