The event schedule is ready now. You can check to get a glimpse of the amazing sessions we would be having and enroll in sessions you will be interested in. You can add sessions to your Sched Enroll in sessions before it exceeds limit by clicking the radio button beside the talk session card like so:. Workshops are now published on the schedule, kindly register now for your preferred workshop session as each workshop has limited space.
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Please lookout for a final email from us tomorrow with a unique QRcode. Come along with this email as you'll be checked in with the QRcode. Areeb was a fighter for free speech, privacy, justice and democracy. He did not do it with big words, sometimes he shared his views online, but mostly he tried to change the world more through his actions and work in the open source and free software community.
The memes and cartoons he shared often had a sarcastic touch and I believe this gave him strength to continue despite a lot of injustices that happened in his home country India and around him. But, this was the humor of Areeb. He was not as geeky as he might have appeared to some. Only today I saw his post of his computer set up last month with a lot of colorful blinking lights. He liked to learn about the world, watch and read about science, nature and humanity.
Besides all the scientific and political literature he also liked a book with a love story — though with a love story with a challenge — and he also liked all the Harry Potter books. Our tastes of music were not so different, but we will never have the chance to enjoy them together now. Traveling was difficult for him as he had to deal with corrupt and bureaucratic administration to even get travel documents.
When he was finally getting a passport the pandemic made it impossible for us to meet again in Singapore. I am grateful that I had the chance to meet Areeb in Hyderabad and Delhi and spent time with him. Last year we organized the OpenTechSummit India as a small event in Delhi and discussed our plans for the future.
Areeb was too young to leave us. For many years we were working with different people and great developers in the community, but to find Areeb with such a strong dedication and understanding of technology and logic — this was a once-in-a-lifetime lucky chance. Areeb wanted to go further and built an example of a technology project and company that is doing good. He wanted to prove that his and our ideas to create a free, respecting and sharing world is possible. Areeb, you are leaving a huge gap.
We will miss you forever. Thank you very much to all speakers and participants. You find the video of the live stream of day 2 here. We start after lunch with:. In the Lifelong Learning Institute we are running onsite workshops about Python, Git and data science. You can participate remotely in the dedicated virtual video room.
How can you access the video rooms? On the left a side-panel opens. You will see the different video channels of the event listed here as well as the event chat that is open for participants around the clock. We have prepared a video guide to get you started. You can access the online schedule of the day here. Mitch Altman Workshop 3h. Each day has a different focus. The main topics of the second day are open hardware, open science, lightning talks, Python and web development.
At PM we will also have an online exhibition tour with interviews of exhibitors. We are very happy you are joining the event! The main topics of the first day are robotics, open hardware, Pocket Science Lab, Python, web development, and digital sovereignty.
You will see the different video channels of the event listed here as well as the event chat room that is open for participants already. The summit will spread out over the week of March and will run on our open source virtual event platform eventyay. And you can get together with developers and contributors from Free and Open Source projects, makerspaces, developer clubs and university IT groups. At summit hubs across Asia we are connecting to participants online and locally.
Apart from company partners you can meet communities, students and developers from Asia and around the world in our virtual exhibition. Flipping burgers to flipping switches: A tech guy's journey. Why Crate. My open source internship during a pandemic.
How open source makes me a better manager. Project Mtuha is still in the early stages. We urgently need more funding to employ some African developers to work on it.
At the moment it is moving, but moving slowly. I write regular articles and blog posts promoting our work. I speak to all the faith organizations who run hospitals in East Africa. Africa has a huge amount of talent and my dream is to harness this talent and recruit a network of independent consultants throughout Africa who can sell services around the project, keeping the money in Africa.
The software comes to them free. They don't pay licenses to multi-nationals, but instead just charge for their own skills. This will bring the huge benefits of the software to African organizations. The three biggest challenges are money, money, and money! We are constantly held back by lack of resources. Project Mtuha would be complete by now if we could employ local developers to build the system. For more information on this project please contact Tim Schofield at tim weberpafrica. Originally posted on Crushplate.
Reposted with permission. Hopefully I can use some of the softwares you mentioned on this page for some of my ideal projects in the future. I hope so you can help us when we as k for your help. Can you describe what makes the case of the ERP in Africa so unique that we need to go for our customized ERP and why we can't use matured systems such as openerp, erpnext, vtiger and the like and contribute to those efforts instead.
Ofc you are more than welcome to develop your own, but please know that it requires a tremendous amount of experience to get an ERP developed and ready for market, and if there is anything I feel lacks in Africa it is experienced, agile, versatile and dependable developers. I don't really understand the statement that "Africa has a huge amount of talent" and feels like something good willing NGO workers keep on pushing but echoes empty when you sit and manage an IT company where I day to day face the knowledge limitation.
Maybe I have gone all wrong and haven't managed to locate those talents, if that's the case I am open to hear some ideas from you.
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