I think one of the most practical software applications would be a
kind of groupware that students especially secondary school students,
can use to collaborate on projects.
To build/adapt an existing tool and make it available for students
and mentors. Something close to Google SOC. You have projects on one
side, mentors on another side, students on the other side and
importantly, project sponsors on the other side.
So, the software brings the four sides together to do some cool things.
On 16 Apr 2008, at 09:14, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
And here are my initial ideas to that...
That is wonderfull news, I think there is a lot to do, here is a
small list
that I can think off. I hope others can contribute as well:
- Translate. There is a *lot* to translate, here is the shortlist:
- Firefox. James Wire has a set of files for Netscape, and
these could
be the
basis for a nice Luganda Firefox. (off course, the other 51 ugandan
languages
are just as important)
- Joomla. The most popular CMS around
- Big task? OpenOffice, or even a linux version.
If translating is not difficult enough, there currently is no web-
based
translation tool for Firefox. There is an old project around, but i
think it
is defunct. If the aim is to translate FF to 52 languages (and TB)
then
reviving this tool might be a nice idea.
Bookkeeping.
- There are a few very nice bookkeeping packages outthere.
They come
with the
Book of Accounts for wherever they have been written + the USA.
Defining the
standard Book of Accounts for Uganda (Requirements Capturing!) and
then
adding this BOA to say, FrontAccounting, CompBiz, TinyERP etc would
be really
helpfull.
Update OpenKiosk
- There are a gazilllion Internet Cafe's in Afrika &
Uganda, and there
is no
smooth Internet Cafe Software package around. OpenKiosk is very
promising,
but it needs some work done. If you crack this, fame will be your
reward! (If
there is someone who can mentor this, i have no clue how to develop
on linux,
i never got further than make & make install)
Who else?
reinier
>> MB
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