The African Hour

African Hour, what is it ?

The African Hour is an initiative aimed at uniting members of the African community through regular virtual office hours. The purpose of these sessions includes:

• Sharing updates, challenges, and highlights of community activities.
• Allowing members to ask questions and provide feedback.
• Collaborating on various topics related to the community.

Future African Hour Participation: To stay informed about future African Hour events, individuals can sign up and receive notifications through the community's delivery service, CuriosityEditor

• Global message delivery/Targets/The African Hour

Current organizing committee members

• Jack
• Anthere
• Samuel
• Meriem
• Uzoma

List of African Hours

Next African Hour : June 10th 2018

Please join us in The African Hour!

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• Date:
  • Sunday, June 10th, 2018
• Time:
  • 15:00 GMT (16:00 Lagos, 18:00 Amman)
• Language:
• Location:
  • The African Hour hangout
• Location:
  • Youtube Channel
• Notes
  • The African Hour pad
• Agenda
  • Wiki Indaba follow up - what are some of the action items that came out of Tunis that the African community needs help with?
  • Wikimania - what can we do to help?
  • Creation of new communities - what can we do to help Benin, Chad, Tanzania, Uganda, Libya?
  • WikiProject called “The AfroCine Project” - Sam Oye (Nigeria)
  • Anthere - the launch of Wiki Loves Women in Uganda and Tanzania. What is planned globally ?
  • Movement Strategy: Working Groups

• Attendees

1. Blossom Ozurumba
2. Anthere (talk)
3. MassiveEartha (talk) 20:52, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
4. T Cells (talk) 20:57, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
5. Justice Okai-Allotey --Owula kpakpo (talk) 21:56, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
6. WJifar (WMF) (talk) 22:13, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
7. Kaizenify (talk) 23:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
8. Reda Kerbouche (talk) 06:01, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
9. Erina Mukuta
10. Abdallahbigboy (talk)
11. Uzoma Ozurumba
12. Felix Nartey
13. Sam/Jamie Tubers
14. Geoffrey Kateregga
15. Boubacarr Coly
16. —M@sssly^✉ 15:01, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
17. Deborah Jacobs

Gereon K. Couldn't get in, because Google Hangouts only has a capicty of 25 - and this capacity was reached. --Gereon K. (talk) 15:42, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Next next African Hour : probably August 2018

• Agenda
• Follow-up from the Wiki Indaba event in Tunis.
• Discussions on supporting communities in countries such as Benin, Chad, Tanzania, Uganda, and Libya.
• Updates on the AfroCine Project by Sam Oye (Nigeria).
• Discussion on the Wiki Loves Women initiative in Uganda and Tanzania.
• Strategy session on working groups for the movement.

Related links

• Global Reach/Office Hours (a former version of the African Hour)