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Kenya going open source?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:05:00 +0000

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/Local/Kenya-going-Open-Source-route-1852.html

Software Freedom Day

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:35:00 +0000

Software Freedom Day Symposium – KICC Sept. 14 & 15th

The Linux Professionals Association (Kenya) will be holding this Symposium on Friday and Saturday this coming week. This is the first time I know of that Kenya is marking the SFD.

Theme is Empowering all people to freely connect, create and share in a digital world that is participatory, transparent, and sustainable. (Quite a mouthful! Everyone in ICT should show up for this event. It will be worthwhile)

FOSS: Software CD’s delayed by Posta

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:52:00 +0000

I’ve been told that some 300 CD’s of Ubuntu Linux have been detained by Posta. They were donated to LPA-Kenya, the Linux Professionals Association by the Shuttleworth Foundation. I don’t understand these guys, considering that this software is totally free, (free source, free download, free postage even!). So even if duty is to be paid…. the maths is elementary.

I expect my personal consignment any time now and hope that they don’t act funny. The last time I did this, the consignment was posted to me and I had no issues collecting it. A friend of mine however was asked to pay duty of about 2000+ and of course he told them to keep the CD’s.
I already have a download of the CD’s I’m expecting; it’s just that the CD covers are soo coool…

Ubuntu Linux – version 6.06 is rated top ahead of Suse Linux and Fedora for the Desktop.

I believe the Free and Open Source Software is the way to go for Africa, and indeed the world as regards to IT based systems and applications.

piracy and open source software

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:41:00 +0000

I’m sure a good number of us have seen the ads in the local dailies over the last couple of days concerning software compliance and anti-piracy.

Seems that Micro$oft (and the other smaller software vendors) have started to pull weight..

I think it’s a good opportunity for Open Source CompaniesSoftware. Paying 40k KES for M$ Office when there is OpenOffice around is not good small and medium sized business and for the Kenyan economy.

Music and Open Source Software/Free Software

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:26:00 +0000

Just spent a few hours at my ‘kienyeji’ studios (aka computer + guitar) with Audacity and KRecord on SuSE linux 10.0

Sound quality is excellent.. i’m still to try out the more professional and feature filled Ardour.. (for me feature filled most of the time means steep learning curve)

Recording guitar to comp results in a surprisingly low amount of white noise in Linux – Windows funny enough has much more white noise..

I tell u live recording artists are simply harsh…really good at what they do.. I’m very far from what i think is perfection…

But I’m having total fun doing this..