Yesterday Reinier, Simon and I made the track to attend Barcamp Uganda which, for clarification sake we had no part in organizing. It’s a bit confusing for some people because only two weeks ago, the three of us did help organize and launch Campala2008 (a.k.a Barcamp Kampala). I’ll admit, I was excited to [...]

Just this morning it was announced that Google headquarters in Silicon Valley in the United States will sponsor and host Barcamp Africa on October 11, 2008. This is big news, because Mountain View isn’t only a Google campus, it’s the Google worldwide center of operations!
This is an incredible sign of support for Africa and [...]

Day 2 went just as planned. Code was shared, tips were given and presentations filled the day as the first ever Barcamp in Uganda came to a close. This was the day specifically targeting developers and programmers and it worked. There were presentations on JQuery, Subversion, DNS Vulnerabilities, Social Protocols for Web Apps, [...]

Day 1 was nothing short of spectacular. Despite a two hour downpour that shut down the city and cut the power twice, the attendees ranged from 50 to 75 in number and all contributed to a healthy discussion about technology in Kampala, Uganda and throughout East Africa. The realtime liveblog on Twitter drew [...]

After the successes of Barcamp Nairobi I’ve decided to help organize a Barcamp in Uganda called Campala scheduled for August 29, 2008. What makes a Barcamp different from a normal conference?

Collaborative Organization (instead of a Board)
Barcamps are free
They offer an open forum for presenting. There are no ‘featured speakers’, the attendees determine the [...]

Campala is a barcamp event taking place in Kampala, Uganda on August 31, 2008. We’re currently looking for people who’d like to participate. If you’re interested or if you’d like to recommend someone contact us at j.gosier@appfrica.org. For those of you unfamiliar with Barcamp, they are ad-hoc gatherings born from the desire [...]