Tag Archives: open source

OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

November 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Kiberia, Nairobi’s million-person slum, will be mapped in November through a project initiated by OpenStreetMap and Jump Start International. OpenStreetMap’s Humanitarian team will collaborate with ...
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Setting Up a Local Development Environment in Windows

October 21, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
People Online’s internship program successfully launched today. One thing I was completely unprepared for was having to do a basic primer on development environments. ...
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Asia-Africa on Open Source (AAOS)

November 16, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This week marks the beginning of the Asia-Africa Open Source Conference in Jakarta… Indonesia and other countries in Asia and Africa are determined to strengthen their ...
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Open Source Leading African IT Industry Explosion

November 1, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Last week marked the beginning of I-week in Accra, Ghana which drew government officials, businesses owners, academia, developers and venture capitalists from all over the ...
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South African Student Wins Google Open Source Challenge

July 18, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded ...
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$50,000 for an OpenCMS Website?

June 25, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I found an article Mulo’s site about the Bank of Uganda spending $50,000 ($84 Million Shs) on a website that was powered by OpenCMS. ...
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