[WSIS CS-Plenary] [WSIS THETHA] [bellanet-l] Open Source Conference, cape town (jan 2004)

[Eric Muragana]

Dates Jan 12-16, 2004
Venue The University of the Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa

The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), the
African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) project at  the
University of the Western Cape in collaboration with the United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) invite you to participate in this
seminal event.

The conference will address the challenges and opportunities of the
creation and use of free / open source software and open content and
their development potential for Africa. The conference has both strategic
and practical objectives, bringing together participants from
government, education, business and civil society together with the
developer community. The purpose of this conference is to

* Review progress on implementation of open source and open content in
Africa
* Create opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and learning among
Africans participating in open source and open content initiatives
* Lay the groundwork for collaborative creation of open source software in
Africa
* Expose Open Source companies and products to a variety of participants

The conference will operate through a number of plenary sessions given by
world leaders in the area of open source and open content, parallel
sessions with contributed papers and posters addressing specific themes,
breakaway sessions for for networking, a mini trade fair, and a
hackathon that will run in parallel with the conference beginning two days
before the conference starts.

http://fossfa.org/

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