OpenCafe's Pan African initiatives

To start off this blog - let me explain some of the people we work with within the African continent and the initiatives we have started to make sure we keep in touch with FOSS and open content news on the continent.

The reason for us to take part in Pan African projects is simple. Open source and open content projects have generally no borders - immediately when we started off using open source software - we got in touch with programmers from all over the world through the Internet.

OpenCafe in general - as it says in our slogan - building open communities - puts a special emphasis on getting to know and work with people from various cultures - in the cafe itself you find people from all over - many of them coming from African countries like Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana or Angola. In other words one of OpenCafe's aims is to start African discussions around development, open source software and open content with anyone interested in getting in touch with us.

Currently we work with Kevin (Kenya) and Abimbola (Nigeria) and Cymba (Zimbabwe) as part of our ArtMarketOnline project.

Click here to see our Pan African pages which also includes a page on Software Freedom Day 2005 events on the continent and a list of African LUGs.

Tectonic on the state of African free software

Click here to read Alastair 's thoughts on FOSS in Africa - during his visit to Nairobi to attend Idlelo 2 February.

Heather's post on whether Creative Commons is relevant in Africa

Heather Ford is the director of Creative Commons South Africa - she wrote this entry back in 2004 before the launch of CCSA (May 2005). Click here to read what she says on the above topic!

Welcome to our PanAfrican Blog!

We thought it was important to have a space for all PanAfrican OpenCafe projects, and all interesting FOSS and open content info we discover.

Enjoy!