@Aklapper Can you please help here, what is the usual process after filing this ticket for a mailing list. Its about 10 days since I made the request.

Hey @Aklapper we need urgent assistance to approve new accounts created on phabricator for an event today. We will appreciate if someone could approve to afford the participants a chance to explore the platform.

Day 1 successfully completed.

Thanks @D3r1ck01 for seeing this ticket through. Closing as the task has been fully completed and tested.

All tasks completed

Blog finally published here - https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/

In T168777#3656265, @Qgil wrote:

Thank you very much for the pictures!

Back to this task, I hope this blog post can be published in the Wikimedia Blog this month.

In T168777#3617042, @Qgil wrote:

Hi, do you still plan to publish this blog post?

In T169573#3403142, @Aklapper wrote:

I love this idea and I'm curious to learn how you "measure" or "judge" your Top 3.

(PS: I rephrased the task summary a bit to provide more context when only looking at the task name on the Developer-Advocacy workboard.)

Task is completed

Follow up with participants to keep contributing to MediaWiki. This is still a work in progress, however @D3r1ck01 is tasked to ensure the participants a spoon fed with tasks and (or) always are reminded of tasks the could contribute to.

Thanks to all who supported this initiative we are glad that it happened and looking forward to what ensues. Read more about how it went here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers/Report

In T168747#3377631, @Qgil wrote:

This is great! Thank you @D3r1ck01 @Flixtey and other contributors who have made this unprecedented workshop possible. And of course, thank you to all participants!

A couple of questions:

• Are there any pictures?
• Have you thought what to do to retain at least 10% of the participants at lesast during the next 12 months? It would be great to see other African volunteer developers thriving in the next months, and meeting them at Wikimania 2018!

The planning phase of the project is completely done now, and Accra is ready to host the event!

In T156153#3343901, @Qgil wrote:

In order to "build a team", one important step is to ask participants in developer events to leave their email address so we can reach out to them with new activities, online or otherwise.

Please coordinate with @Rfarrand on the best way to organize this, since she is doing this for the events we organize. Thank you!

Thanks for the creation of the list.

Am glad for the comments and suggestions on here. I think we are moving forward with the request for the mailing list, the group will be called African Wikimedia Developers. FInd the ticket for the mailing list here - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156248

Awesome to see this finally in motion