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Summary of what happened in day 1 and all activities done during the event; * @Flixtey did a presentation on an overview of the Wikimedia movement and volunteer opportunities. * Participants learned about Phabricator, Git/Github, Technical Areas in the Wikimedia movement, Introduction to IRC and made known of the programming languages used to build MediaWiki. * We created an IRC channel for developers in Africa (#wiki-dev-africa) where all developers in Africa will come together and collaborate on projects. ** The IRC channel was registered and will be used for follow up and subsequent trainings. * Participants during the event joined and introduced themselves in the #wikimedia-dev channel. * Many participants were interested in hacking mediawiki core and contributing in building APIs and very few on building mobile apps. * Participants have started dropping their emails on an etherpad here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Devs_Ghana. @Rfarrand this is for you :). The list will keep building as they put in their emails. * Pictures taken will be uploaded to commons and the link will be put there. * A one on one talk with the participants after the event goes by; ** Participants mentioned they learnt a lot of new skills and tools that they never knew anything about. ** The event is exciting and willing to get more people to contribute to the movement etc.. ** After day 2 (tomorrow), a one-on-one discussion (short interview) will be done to the participants (if not all, some), and feedbacks will be jotted down and shared. *As at today, we have 98 members in the African Wikimedia Developers mailing list. All in all, Day 1 was very successful as we did more than we we planned for (all the prerequisites - phabricator, git/github, discussion on technical areas, irc, overview of wikimedia projects etc...) and will focus on hacking on MediaWiki itself and building extensions.

Summary of what happened in day 1 and all activities done during the event; * @Flixtey did a presentation on an overview of the Wikimedia movement and volunteer opportunities. * Participants learned about Phabricator, Git/Github, Technical Areas in the Wikimedia movement, Introduction to IRC and made known of the programming languages used to build MediaWiki. * We created an IRC channel for developers in Africa (#wiki-dev-africa) where all developers in Africa will come together and collaborate on projects. ** The IRC channel was registered and will be used for follow up and subsequent trainings. * Participants during the event joined and introduced themselves in the #wikimedia-dev channel. * Many participants were interested in hacking mediawiki core and contributing in building APIs and very few on building mobile apps. * Participants have started dropping their emails on an etherpad here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Devs_Ghana. @Rfarrand this is for you :). The list will keep building as they put in their emails. * Pictures taken will be uploaded to commons and the link will be put there. * A one on one talk with the participants after the event goes by; ** Participants mentioned they learnt a lot of new skills and tools that they never knew anything about. ** The event is exciting and willing to get more people to contribute to the movement etc.. ** After day 2 (tomorrow), a one-on-one discussion (short interview) will be done to the participants (if not all, some), and feedbacks will be jotted down and shared. * As at today, we have 98 members in the African Wikimedia Developers mailing list. All in all, Day 1 was very successful as we did more than we we planned for (all the prerequisites - phabricator, git/github, discussion on technical areas, irc, overview of wikimedia projects etc...) and will focus on hacking on MediaWiki itself and building extensions.

Summary of what happened in day 1 and all activities done during the event; * @Flixtey did a presentation on an overview of the Wikimedia movement and volunteer opportunities. * Participants learned about Phabricator, Git/Github, Technical Areas in the Wikimedia movement, Introduction to IRC and made known of the programming languages used to build MediaWiki. * We created an IRC channel for developers in Africa (#wiki-dev-africa) where all developers in Africa will come together and collaborate on projects. ** The IRC channel was registered and will be used for follow up and subsequent trainings. * Participants during the event joined and introduced themselves in the #wikimedia-dev channel. * Many participants were interested in hacking mediawiki core and contributing in building APIs and very few on building mobile apps. * Participants have started dropping their emails on an etherpad here: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Devs_Ghana. @Rfarrand this is for you :). The list will keep building as they put in their emails. * Pictures taken will be uploaded to commons and the link will be put there. * A one on one talk with the participants after the event goes by; ** Participants mentioned they learnt a lot of new skills and tools that they never knew anything about. ** The event is exciting and willing to get more people to contribute to the movement etc.. ** After day 2 (tomorrow), a one-on-one discussion (short interview) will be done to the participants (if not all, some), and feedbacks will be jotted down and shared. * As at today, we have 98 members in the African Wikimedia Developers mailing list. All in all, Day 1 was very successful as we did more than we we planned for (all the prerequisites - phabricator, git/github, discussion on technical areas, irc, overview of wikimedia projects etc...) and will focus on hacking on MediaWiki itself and building extensions.