So, who is hosting the virtual meeting?
Quoting Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected]>:
> 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
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