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Announcing first Africa Open Source Fellowship in memory of Guido Sohne
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| Launched on the eve of his birthday, the Free Software and Open Source
| Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) and the Advanced Information Technology
| Institute of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT
| (AITI-KACE), have decided to join forces with the Sohne family to establish a
| Fellowship in memory and honour of the great work that Guido accomplished. So
| I was not worried to make the 15-hour road trip to get to Accra to be part of
| the event.
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http://opensource.org/node/439
Recent:
New Kenian Open Source awards announced
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| The nominations for the first ever Kenya Open Source awards, to be held on
| the 27th May 2009, has been declared open.
|
| The awards recognise information and communication industry developers,
| system administrators and end users who have made notable contribution to
| Open Source technological advancement.
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http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=2668
Kenya hosts first Open Source Awards
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| The Linux Professional Association of Kenya and ICT Consumers Association of
| Kenya will be hosting Kenya's first Open Source Awards. The ceremony will be
| held at the Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, on 27 May 2009.
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http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/111/16/36077.html
Related:
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
|
| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
|
| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
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