And let me add Arjan de Jager and the IICD (iicd.org) for supporting
the FOSS movement in East Africa. They believed early on, as one of
the few development organisations, that FOSS has the potential to
change the ICT Landscape and were willing to put their funds there.
Both of us have moved on (Arjan is now advising the Dutch government
and I am continuing the FOSS struggle in Papua New Guinea) but we have
have tried to bundle our experiences in a small book: "FOSS for
Development - Exploring expectations, achievements and the future".
It has been published under the CC license and can be found on:
Arxiv (http://arxiv.org/) and E-LIS (http://eprints.rclis.org/) open
access repositories.
Direct download: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0808/0808.3717.pdf
Commercial/printed version on:
http://www.polimetrica.com/?p=productsMore&iProduct=76&sName=free-and-open-source-software-for-development-(victor-van-reijswoud-arjan-de-jager)
Victor
On Nov 13, 2008, at 22:27, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
i realized too late how much we owe Victor van Reijswoud and James
Wire .
Simon and myself are just rookies compared to them. Humbly we stand
in the
shadows of forseight they cast over us.
rgds,
Reinier Battenberg
Director
Mountbatten Ltd.
+256 782 801 749
www.mountbatten.net
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On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:18:46 Patons wrote:
We must thank Mount Batten, Etech and everyone for doing their part
in
sharing FOSS.
I was kind of hoping East African Center for Open Source Software
(EACOSS)
would spear head the trend from their website and related
activities within
Uganda at least. Not much word from there though!
#ocira
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM, joachim Gwoke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Patrick,
You have made an interesting observation. FOSS should be 'shared'
along
the same lines or better, it is really odd that windows gets
'shared'
more than FOSS here.
Kind of reminds me of a discussion I had sometime back with
some pals
regarding very popular global hit songs.
Its not because of the acclaimed global sales but because
of the how much is
"shared"
windows seems to have the high "shared" rate than
FREE Software. How can we
share FOSS more easily and induce other to want to shared
too?
# ocira
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