OpenCafé

I heard of this day from AJ who decided to take part in this initiative. If you take part all you need to do is - choose 5 interesting blogs you like and write a blog entry introducing them to your readers. Here is AJ’s Blogday entry.

These days are great - it gives everyone a reason to leave the routine and do something new for a change.

There are other great days like this, there is

• Software Freedom Day (16 September)
• BarCampEarth  (August 26-28)
• OneWebDay (22 September)

… actually you can make your own day as long as you make sure you let everyone know and take part in the fun.

Thanks to Eugene’s hard work - the toaster is ready for action - new software loaded - ISOs uploaded so you are welcome to come & test it here at the cafe.

Visit Google video to see the interview.

Our cafe is almost 2 years old - which is great - we are all looking forward to many more years of the OpenCafe experience.

Our Internet cafe and training projects are generating some income so that we can run all activities - however it is still not enough for running the cafe - we also depend on financial support from outside the cafe.

There are many ways you can support the cafe’s projects - we have set up a  support page - which has some details about all the tasks you can take part in - from event management to web development, software development, graphic design and marketing amongst others.

You can also make financial donations via our support page or visit our Cafepress store for some OpenCafe merchandize.

Since Software Freedom Day and Aardklop is coming up - we need quite a lot of support from OpenCafe fans - so that these events can be a great success - so please contact us if you are ready to help us with organizing the Barcamp and exhibition or if  you are up for spending some time at the OpenCafe stand during the festival and explain festival goers all about about Linux, Wikipedia and other projects.

This week we were happy to discover the first penguin ever in an article in the local weekly paper - the Potchefstroom Herald about a local 14-year old, Schalk-Willem Kruger - the youngest ever to take part in the Computer Olympiad .

The CSSA Computer Olympiad is one of the oldest and largest competitions of its kind in the world.
The aim of the olympiad is to:
• Bring about the awareness of the potential uses of computers
• Promote and encourage the spread of computer education
• Identify, encourage and reward programming aptitude.

Click here to read Schalk-Willem’s story.