with all due respect, shall we have a LUG meeting organised first? that seems to be a challenge already, if simon, kyle or myself dont do it.
On Wednesday 21 March 2012 12:31:01 Brian Ssennoga wrote: > Friends, > > IDLELO5 is in its 3rd day (#idlelo5), and since i have been here, am > intrigued by the fact that Uganda has never hosted IDLELO! > > Its held every 2 years, and the bid for IDLELO 6 is now between South > Africa and Kenya. So i am already scratching my head on what we can do to > host IDLELO7 in Kampala. > > We will need alot of things, and a whole lot of money. We would need to > pull every single connection we have, to pull off one of the biggest and > best IDLELOs that the African continent has ever see. > > Now i suppose some of you are wondering, what is IDLELO? Please visit > http://idlelo.net > > The thing for me is, what would IDLELO present to Uganda? What would a > major FOSS conference present to University Students, SMEs and generally > the Ugandan Community? How about Government? Yesterday we were talking > about Kenya's Open Data Portal, and who knows, we can use this opportunity > to have government showcase this... > > Whereas the work is ALOT, for now the question i would want to ask is this: > Can we mobilize the FOSS Community in Uganda well enough to work as a team, > to host IDLELO? Can we mobilize our resources well enough to get Government > to back hosting (or atleast Supporting) of this event? > > Can we please have a response on this? 2016 is 4 years from now, but in 2 > years, we will need to have prepared a strong bid to host IDLELO 7, and > that homework starts NOW. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. www.mountbatten.net tel: +256 758 801749 twitter: @batje _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list 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 mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
