2024 Year Recap

Ariane Djeupang — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:24:09 +0000

This is the first time I am writing a recap of a year after realizing that it's another great way to showcase my work, and also being encourage by my mentor to write on my work. This post is a look back on all the main things I did last year and a hint to what’s coming in 2025. Last year I created this posts on my blog, this year is a look back at 2024. Let’s jump to the highlights.

2024, I started a new job as a Program Assistant on the very first week of the year. The first two weeks were the introductory and trial period. Then I had to replace the Business Developer on an ongoing project, who unexpectedly left the company without any notice. I also worked a lot on customer care tasks at my company, while working on the different projects we were launching/reviving. It has been a very stressful and busy journey.

Things I'm proud of:

Having unforgettable coaching sessions with my mentor (I'll write another post on our works)
Being an IOC (International Organizing Committee) member for PyCon Africa.
Organizing Pycon Africa 2024 and DjangoCon US 2024.
Being a reviewer for PyCon US 2024, and for PyData Global 2024.
Speaking at PyLadiesCon 2024 on a panel discussion with amazing ladies from Ghana.
Being nominated as a DSF member, and the first Cameroonian to be a DSF member :).
Being nominated for the DSF Board of Directors Election.
Serving as a Staff Support for the TechWomen Cameroon Association and as a Project Assistant for the first edition of their High Impact Skills Prog ram.
Joining the Black Python Devs community, founded by Jay Miller a friend of a good friend of mine who's being an amazing mentor for me so far.

Some amazing new people the community brought to me

Back in 2023, DjangoCon Africa made me meet Dawn Wages [shout out to her!!!] who has been an amazing mentor and a good friend, very supportive when it was difficult to keep it up with our regular meeting. She would text from time to time to check up on me. Noah Alorwu the funny cool guy and very supportive.
I've also met Ruth Ikegah who has been a good friend to me, thanks to Abigail Dogbe one of my old friends the community has given me.
I had the opportunity to work with Peter Grandstaff, Thibaud Colas, Jeff Tripplet, Afi, Tim Schilling, Anna Makarudze, Mariatta, Magdaleina, Mannie Young, Michael Young, Muheue Ngazetunde, Daniele Procida, Kojo Idrissa who's a big support to the Black Community.

What's next?

Blog more about Open Source, Machine Learning and Data Science
Speak more about Machine Learning, Data Science and Open Source
Contribute to Django and CPython
Dedicate more time to contribute to the health and safety of the Django and the Python Communities
Show off our GitHub & Code contributions
Launch a mentorship program shaped for under-represented groups (Announcement coming soon!)
Mentor more folks on 1-1 mentorship sessions
Organize more conferences
Spend time with my family and friends

Forem: Ariane Djeupang

2024 Year Recap

Things I'm proud of:

Some amazing new people the community brought to me

What's next?