Reports from Spain... and Namibia

From: Frederick Noronha (FN) (fred_at_bytesforall.org)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:45:29 CST

These reports are from my collagues, who were involved in putting
together the *FLOSS and the Developing Countries* 2003 report in Finland.
Below is Niranjan Rajani (Helsinki) followed by Nico Coetzee in
Johanesburg. I'm penning these lines from a hot and getting-humid Goa on
the west coast of India. The person yet to 'wake up' is Cesar Brod, from
the deep south of Brazil.
If anyone wants to get in touch with these guys, contact me for their
email addresses. And, while on the subject, why not launch an
international GNU/Linux news agency... as seen from the field? Any
takers? FN 

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Good to hear from you Nico.
It seems we are again waking up a little bit from our sleeps.
First to wake was Fred :-), then Cesar, Nico and finally I am also 
getting out of slumber ;-) (let me go to sleep again).
Nico, Say hello to all FLOSSers in Namibia.
I was in Malaga Spain two weeks ago. It was the OSWC 
<http://www.opensourceworldconference.com>. organized by the Government 
of Andalusia. They have their own distribution of Linux called 
GuadaLinex. It was very heartning to see that they expected a couple of 
hundred participants, but in the last three days before the conference 
about 1500-2000 students registered and appeared, wiht lots of females. 
The conference was opened by the Crown Prince, and addressed by former 
Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.
How is it in other places?
regards
niranjan
Nico Coetzee said on 2004-03-11 16:13:
> Mmmm... things are hapening fast these days :)
> 
> I'm in Namibia next week on the "Africa Source: African Free and Open Source 
> Software Developers Meeting" (http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource).
> 
> I'm presenting on Clusters, Security and Project management. Other topics 
> include cheap/recycled PC's, OSS Project Management in Africa and tons of 
> other stuff. In Africa we are really pulling together, and it seems the 
> various governments are starting to notice.
> 
> You might also be interested in this: 
> http://itfirms.co.za/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19
> 
> Cheers
 
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