OpenCafé

Since we are preparing our own “unconference” during Software Freedom Day - have a look at a video of Barcamp San Francisco to get into the Barcamp mood.

Click here to see the video.

Hi everyone, we set up a wiki to plan our upcoming events.

This September we are organizing our third Software Freedom Day (16 September) - we plan to create a Barcampish atmosphere - with presentations, exhibition, music workshop and more…

We also take part in the local Aardklop festival (26-30 September) click to visit the official festival site. During the festival we will have a gazebo on the festival grounds - where we will be selling our ArtMarketOnline artists’ works - jewelry, paintings, books, CDs - and we also spend time distributing open source / open content CDs.

During the festival we plan to go again to spend a jazzy afternoon listening to the cool sounds of Hugh Masekela and Mafikizolo and many other jazz greats at the Medumo Jazz Fountain - if you are interested to come with us - please mail us.

We also plan to celebrate OpenCafe day on 21 October - so we are in for some goood eventful 2 months.

Have a look at the wiki and make sure you add your ideas - comments - suggestions to the event pages - if you are interested in taking part in planning and organizing the  events - please contact us as soon as possible - so that we can get together and come up with some exciting things to do/give away/play/write etc:-) during SFD & Aardklop.

The Geek Freedom Leauge is inviting all their geeks to become OpenICDL trainers.

All you need to do is : join the league and download the training notes. While you are at it - you can also have a look at all activities, competitions and projects the leauge is busy with.

Nigeria ordered the first million of the OLPC (One laptop per child ) laptops.

These are Linux-powered laptops - that cost around $140 each. OLPC deals directly with governments in developing economies includingChina, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria and Thailand.

Click to read a very informative article on FOSS in education.