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Linux-Announce Digest #478
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Thu Jul 17 14:13:05 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #478, Volume #4 Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:13:02 EDT
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FOSSFA-backed event in Africa... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FOSSFA-backed event in Africa...
Date: 17 Jul 2003 17:25:11 GMT
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> From: Silvia Caicedo <scaicedo@bellanet.org>
> To: "Bellanet Information Dissemination List"
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>
>
> The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for
> Africa (FOSSFA), the African Virtual Open Initiatives
> and Resources (AVOIR) project at the
> University of the Western Cape and the United
> Nations Economic Commission
> for Africa (ECA) invite you to participate in this
> seminal event to be held in Capetown from 12th to 16th
> January 2004.
>
> The conference will address the challenges and
> opportunities of thecreation and use of free / open
> source software and open content and their
> development potential for Africa. The conference
> has both strategic and practical objectives, bringing
> together participants from government,
> education, business and civil society together with
> the developer community. The purpose of this
> conference is to:
>
> 1. Review progress on implementation of open source
> and open content in Africa
> 2. Create opportunities for peer-to-peer networking
> and learning among Africans participating in open
> source and open content initiatives
> 3. Lay the groundwork for collaborative creation of
> open source software
> in Africa
> 4. Expose Open Source companies and products to a
> variety of participants
>
> The conference will operate through a number of
> plenary sessions led by world leaders in the area of
> open source and open content, parallel
> sessions with contributed papers and posters
> addressing specific themes,breakaway sessions for for
> networking, a mini trade fair, and a hackathon
> that will run in parallel with the conference
> beginning two days before the conference starts.
>
> The conference themes are;
>
> 1. Open Source and Open Content in Government
>
> 2. Open Source and Open Content in Health
>
> 3. Open Source and Open Content in Education
>
> 4. Open Source Methodologies and Tools
>
> The hackathon will be run in parallel to the
> conference, and will produce a useable piece of open
> source software as a demonstration of the power of
> open source.
>
> For more information please visit the conference
> website @ http://idlelo.uwc.ac.za
>
> If you are working on any open source project
> please register your project@
> http://www.fossfa.org/database/
>
> With kind regards,
> Bildad Kagai
> Coordinator
> Free Software and open Source Foundation for Africa
> (FOSSFA)
> P. O. Box 919 Nairobi 00100 Kenya
> Suite B2, Tetu Apartments, State House Avenue
> Email. fossfa@fossfa.org
> URL. www.fossfa.org
> Tel. 254 20 272 8332
> Fax. 254 20 272 6965
> Cell. 254 722 379 409
>
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