+1 for Reinier On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug
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