Good Morning simon, Another successful LUG meeting at Makerere and thanks to all guest speakers. We at EACOSS would like to host the March 19th meeting. For for any inquiries please get in touch with Tracy.
Cheers Allan On 20 February 2010 15:15, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Luggers > > Well again another successful LUG meeting. We kicked off with a very > interesting presentation from Jubal Harpster who gave us a talk about how > agcommons.org He discussed how they used FLOSS software, such as QGIS and > OpenStreetmaps to perform various mapping projects, and discussed there > upcoming WhereCamp 2010 to be held in Ghana. > > I then kicked off a run through of the customized Ubuntu release I have > been putting together over the last couple of weeks. I suggested that it > could evan become a release in it's own right if enough people would like to > maintain the project. The release is available with David the Systems > Administrator at the software incubator, they will happily make a copy of > the release available to anyone who would like a copy free of charge, for up > to 200 users. So get down there for your copy. I think they will also be > making a copy available on-line. > > Sam of Digital Solutions talked and demonstrated to us how he uses various > Open Source and primarily Linux based development tools. > > We finally finished with a discussion session as always, including the up > coming project to build an Ubuntu Mirror at Makarere and possibly at UCC and > UCU. Will keep you all posted on this project. > > Our thanks to all our guest speakers, Michael Niyitegeka for hosting us. > > On a personal note I am very buoyed by the growing interest in Linux and > Open Source at Makarere and we should all actively support this and other > academic institutions in there efforts. > > Well that's all from me for now, I am looking forward to our March 19th > Meeting. If anyone has suggestions for another venue I would be most > interested to here from you. > > Caio for now! > > > Simon Vass > Technical Manager > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > Email: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- East African Center for Open Source Software Plot 9 - 21 Port Bell Road Nakawa P. O. Box 26192 Kampala - Uganda Telephone +256 414 223802 Mobile +256 772 670446 "The new ICT Advisory, Innovations & Training Centre"
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