Also, regarding government adoption: What is the stance of the Ugandan government regarding open source? Has your lobbying been successful?
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Simon Vass <[email protected]> wrote: > No we don't have a physical location. But we have many 'friends' who host > us. > > One idea for OPTA could be to have a 'home' somewhere. Probably with > someone like COSS if they would have us. > > > > Simon Vass > Managing Director > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > email: [email protected] > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benjamin Tayehanpour" <[email protected]> > To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 23 March, 2012 12:59:46 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] Random Friday Thought! > > > A release party for the new Ubuntu LTS sounds like a great idea. Count me > in! Work permitting, of course. > > (One thing I've wanted to ask for some time now: Does the Uganda LUG > actually have a physical location somewhere?) > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Simon Vass < [email protected] > wrote: > > > Wow, no takers to such an obvious throw down? > > Come on some one must have the time to organise a little old meeting? > > Even a virtual one? > > Seems we have several topics we could discuss. > > OPTA - As some of you are aware a small group of us last year got together > with the idea of forming a professional association with open > source/data/hardware/beer goals and ideals. It how ever died due to a lack > of interest on the part of the formation committee, as such would there be > people on the list willing to take this idea forward? > > Would it help us to do something like > http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/03/23/icelandic-government-moves-towards-open-source/ > > Hardware/Software Hackathon - Brian has proposed a few times problems for > us to solve, I don't know how far he got with any of those or if he needs > more help? > > Gaming:- Anyone tried downloading the Doom3 SDK and getting it to run on > Linux? > > Party planning:- A new version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is due on April 26th. > Should we plan a party like we did two years ago! Managed to get on TV and > everything! > > Another party planning:- In October we celebrate 10Years. Sounds like a > jolly good excuse to throw a party to me. So who's bringing the maraca's? > > Software Freedom Day 2012:- This will be coming up soon. What should we do? > > IDELO 7:- Brian just talking crazy! Or could we really get something like > this organised? What would it take? > > Well those were just a few ideas off the top of my head. > > > Simon Vass > Managing Director > E-Tech Uganda Ltd > > http://www.etech.ug > Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 > email: [email protected] > skype: e-techservicedesk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reinier Battenberg" < [email protected] > > To: "Uganda Linux User Group" < [email protected] > > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 7:08:31 PM > Subject: Re: [LUG] IDLELO 7, in Uganda > > > 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). 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