Open Source

Remmy Nweke WINS African FOSS Reporter’s Award

By codezed at 25 May, 2010, 4:34 pm

Senior Reporter and Head of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) desk at Champion Newspapers Limited, Lagos-Nigeria has bagged the first-ever African Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Reporter’s award. Recieving the award which was the first of its kind by the Free and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) and Digital Commons,Remmy said that there was need for Journalists [...]

Linux Fund and FOSSFA to Join Forces to Promote Open Source Software in Africa

By brenda at 27 December, 2009, 5:10 am

Linux Fund and the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) have pledged to work together to promote Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Africa. In a Press Release, Linux Fund and the Free Software and Open Source Foundation of Africa (FOSSFA) have signed a landmark agreement to promote Free Software and [...]

Regional FLOSS Workshops

By codezed at 2 October, 2009, 8:43 am

The Community Education Computer Society (CECS), an ICT training NGO established in 1985 in South Africa, will be conducting 2-day workshops on free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in 5 Southern African countries. COUNTRIES AND WORKSHOP DATES The workshops will be conducted as follows: Maseru, Lesotho (20 & 21 August 2009) Blantyre, Malawi (1 & [...]

FOSS Business Models

By codezed at 16 February, 2009, 8:31 pm

My name is Geraldine and I am part of the ict@innovation management team and my colleague Petra Hagemann recommended I get in touch with you – I would like to ask for your assistance and expertise in the following matter: In preparation of our regional trainings on FOSS Business Models we are still in search [...]

Open Source Background Bookmarks

By christian at 2 November, 2005, 4:46 pm

This page contains links to useful background information on Open Source. Please contribute! I suggest however that no links to Open Source Projects are put here; I intend to start another page with useful Open Source Software. Otherwise this page would become a bit overloaded. Portals http://www.oreilly.de/opensource http://opensource.mit.edu http://wizards-of-os.org Overview 10 myths – O’Reilly’s Article [...]