The International Space Station will be visible today to the naked eye (if clouds allow) everywhere at 7:10 pm 🛸🚀😊

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS031&roll=E&frame=65569

@GDGAddis

Registration Deadline - Monday Nov 16th, 2020 7:00 PM (ማታ 1 ሰዓት)

N.B. Any one from any region in Ethiopia can apply too.

#EthiopiaHacks

@GDGAddis

Hello Everyone! How do you rate GDG Addis and Its impact for your Journey?
anonymous poll

I am somehow satisfied 😊 – 66
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 50%

I am very satisfied 👍 – 37
👍👍👍👍 28%

I am not satisfied 👎 – 30
👍👍👍 23%

👥 133 people voted so far.

CodeNight Project showcase has started

Join Here - https://meet.google.com/isn-jgdm-vbc

🎉 The 10th version of #EthiopiaHacks is here! 🎊

The exciting #EthiopiaHacks Hackathon program is organized by U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and USAID in Collaboration with GDG Addis. #EthiopiaHacks v10.0 will be run from Nov 20 to 22 virtually and open for all tech-savvies in #Ethiopia.

👉 What?
Virtual Hackathon

👉 When?
Nov 20 - 22, 2020

👉 Where?
Virtual

👉 Eligibility
- Age between 18-25
- Being #Ethiopian in any region
- Must have internet access
- Have fundamental programming (coding) knowledge
- Not participated Before

Register now to the most competitive opportunity at 👇

https://forms.gle/Ra6zin83SDeQFQGz9

✨ WIN BIG PRIZES ✨
@GDGAddis

Hello, Here is the good opportunity to kick start your digital work career and how to find jobs online.

The session will be live on YouTube this friday Nov 20, 2020 at Morning 10 AM.

Join at 👇👇

https://youtu.be/vNxg8YqBMb8


This session provides attendees with an understanding of the latest market trends, top tips for standing out to employers, and an introduction to tools that aid the job-hunting process. Understanding the changing world of work and what employers want is crucial when searching for jobs.

@GDGAddis

Greetings

One of our community developers is doing some research regarding SMS Spam in Ethiopia.

https://forms.gle/cFT4446wpg9Csfqi9

Help us understand how we can better solve this problem.

Hello. Those of you who have applied to "Share Your Script" campaign, please use this link to join today's meeting https://meet.google.com/rup-wagf-znj. If you have not applied, you can join as well.

Live now and join 👆👆

https://meet.google.com/rup-wagf-znj

Millions of people are coming online for the first time.

Nearly 800 million people in the world struggle to read.

Understanding text in a foreign language can be difficult for those visiting a new country.

Those are just a few reasons why Google built a text-to-speech feature into Google Lens.

There are several components that make this happen - image capture, text recognition, understanding text structure, translation, text-to-speech, etc. But we are most excited about text recognition, or optical character recognition (OCR). There are many applications of OCR, and what we described above was just one of them.

We are very excited to kick off the ‘Share Your Script’ campaign - which will have a direct impact on improving OCR for handwritten text in your native language. If you would like to participate, please fill this form.
You can help millions of people access information in Amharic and other your native language.

@GDGAddis
@GDGAddis
@GDGAddis

.. #ShareYourScript

Here are the steps:
1. Sign up to participate - Don’t forget to fill the participation form (https://bit.ly/38CSpSV) and ask anyone else who would like to participate to fill it too. The campaign is live till December 19, 2020.
2. Keep contributing images of handwritten text - You can upload pictures of handwritten text that you already have, or can write new content by following the broad guidelines that we shared for each format (passage, list, notes). The more diverse styles that you can get, the better it is for OCR models to learn!
3. Label your images - When you upload images on Image Capture, do label them properly-
3.1. Passage (minimum 3-6 sentences): script, amharic, passage / ስክሪፕት, አማርኛ, ምንባብ
3.2. List (eg. grocery lists, to-do lists): script, amharic, list / ስክሪፕት, አማርኛ, ዝርዝር
3.2. Notes (eg. educational notes): script, amharic, notes / ስክሪፕት, አማርኛ, ማስታወሻዎች
4. Prioritize quality and privacy - As always, the quality of your contributions is very important. Please contribute images that are not blurred and have a significant amount of meaningful text. Make sure that no sensitive or personally identifiable information is captured in the images.

Feel free to share this form (https://bit.ly/38CSpSV) with anyone else who you think might be interested in participating - Please make sure that you ask them to mention your name in the ‘Other’ field of the last question in the form. We will have a *special surprise* for those who can bring the most number of new participants to the campaign.

Thanks,
Google Crowdsource Team

A quick summary!