Since we are preparing our own “unconference” during Software Freedom Day – have a look at a video of Barcamp San Francisco to get into the Barcamp mood.
Click here to see the video.
Archive for July, 2006
What is Barcamp? – The video
July 27, 2006
Software Freedom Day program on the new OpenCafe Wiki
July 27, 2006Hi everyone, we set up a wiki to plan our upcoming events.
This September we are organizing our third Software Freedom Day (16 September) – we plan to create a Barcampish atmosphere – with presentations, exhibition, music workshop and more…
We also take part in the local Aardklop festival (26-30 September) click to visit the official festival site. During the festival we will have a gazebo on the festival grounds – where we will be selling our ArtMarketOnline artists’ works – jewelry, paintings, books, CDs – and we also spend time distributing open source / open content CDs.
During the festival we plan to go again to spend a jazzy afternoon listening to the cool sounds of Hugh Masekela and Mafikizolo and many other jazz greats at the Medumo Jazz Fountain – if you are interested to come with us – please mail us.
We also plan to celebrate OpenCafe day on 21 October – so we are in for some goood eventful 2 months.
Have a look at the wiki and make sure you add your ideas – comments – suggestions to the event pages – if you are interested in taking part in planning and organizing the events – please contact us as soon as possible – so that we can get together and come up with some exciting things to do/give away/play/write etc:-) during SFD & Aardklop.
Become an OpenICDL trainer
July 27, 2006The Geek Freedom Leauge is inviting all their geeks to become OpenICDL trainers.
All you need to do is : join the league and download the training notes. While you are at it – you can also have a look at all activities, competitions and projects the leauge is busy with.
Nigeria orders first million OLPC laptops
July 27, 2006Nigeria ordered the first million of the OLPC (One laptop per child ) laptops.
These are Linux-powered laptops – that cost around $140 each. OLPC deals directly with governments in developing economies includingChina, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria and Thailand.
The open source approach in education
July 27, 2006Click to read a very informative article on FOSS in education.
55 ways to have fun with Google – a book by Phillipp Lenssen
July 4, 2006
Here is a great book I discovered on the Lessig blog.
“You probably use Google everyday, but do you know… the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before! (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)”
Click here to download the cc licensed PDF or here to buy it at Lulu.com.
