You've found the wiki for Africa Source 2 that took place in Uganda, Africa from 8 to 15 of January 2006. This wiki was used to plan and dynamically record the agenda and event proceedings. It also contains a lot of feedback from participants, reports of the event, blog entries and more.

If you are new to wikis, there is a start with this page containing information and links. Check it out and let us know of questions.

FROM THE EVENT

Blog from the event - by Frederick Noronha. You can also check the entries below on the local-area network. For a wider range of writing on the topic of non-profits and FLOSS, see the FOSS4US blog.

• Dwayne's grandmum is a 100, uses Firefox. Buy that?
• A train of sorts... running across three tracks
• No can do
• Vignettes from Kalangala
• Marrying tech, devlopment: your date with speed-geeking
• eRider view: non-profits need a link to the developer community
• Gadgets. a handy tool in the world of wikis... and more
• Keeping track of your documents... with a little help from South Africa
• Engineer-activist shows radio can take on unusual roles
• Can gnu and tux help the doc? ICTs and health, tantalising and unmet promise
• Africa's gift: six million CDs of Free Software
• Voices, from Kalangala
• Free as in freedom: in Syria, FLOSS flights an embargo
• Call to geeks and techies: can you help the visually challenged?
• Advocating, training... the East African road to FLOSS
• These chix mean business: righting the gender imbalance in FLOSS in Africa
• Getting started in localisation, some tips you could use
• Film-maker hunts for an unusual technology film... in Africa
• APC, looking at ICT challenges old and new
• Without support and training, NGOs can flounder over FLOSS: Rudi von Staden

News you can use

Over 1200 photos have been contributed to the collective creative energies of the team. The number has since grown. Check the complete list on your CDs set, if you were a participant at Africa Source II. Contributors include Simos, Hapee de Groot, Alen Stanley, Michal Mach, and FN. If your name has been wrongly excluded, please add it. If you've got unnecessary credit, please delete your name!

Notes on the programme

Notes from the morning sessions (includes all other sessions as well)

Agenda (latest timetable always here): The agenda for Africa Source II is being developed by the organizers and participants. Please see the Agenda Overview for a summary of what will be covered at the event.

Structurally, the agenda was divided into three dimensions:

Morning Tracks covered three main learning areas for participants. Each participant selected a track and followed that learning path for each day of the event

Afternoon Sessions offered elective and inter-disciplinary workshops on a range of topics. Participants were free to explore different sessions each afternoon.

Special Events, such as The Bazaar, Skillshare Sessions and Evening Program sought to entertain, inform and amaze, allowing participants to interact in fresh and exciting ways.

Morning Tracks

• Migration for Education and Resource Centers
• Migration for Non Profit Sector
• Information Handling and Advocacy

Afternoon Sessions

• Afternoon Sessions Overview

Afternoon Thematic Tracks

• Alternative Access Track
• Localisation Track

Special Events

• The Bazaar
• Skillshare Sessions
• Screwdriver Sessions
• Evening Program

People

• Participants (bios)
• ParticipantsAccordingToTracks
• Who was here according to URLs
  
• Facilitators
• Organisers
• Guests

Event Logistics

• Venue
• FAQ
• Funders
• Resources
• NGOinabox Africa Source 2 edition

Kool kamper...

Say a good word about a camper whose contribution to Africa Source you appreciate.

• Goodwill, thanks for your guitar, and your music.
• Simos, what we would have done without your wiki skills... and patience!
  
• Manaal, the belly-dancing kept all fit
• Gunner, right on
• Marek, your face muscles do say something
  

Infotrack by the beach

[A poem by the info track. Copylefted for sharing by all. Sung to a Rap beat. Contact Goodwill for details ;-)]

Today in the info track
We learned about a whole wack
Of Alaa's success in Egypt by the sea
The blogs, and SMS that held the key

To bringing the world's attention
And forcing the world's media to make mention
Of democracy and civil rights
Alaa's campaigning got attention to their plight.

Later, we heard about wikis from Arun
For intranet's research until about noon

The girls won "Simon says" that day
And Bcky stretched us out like balls of clay
Finally we heard from Simos about graphics

Even though there was no internet traffic
What a great day at the beach
We're really starting to find our niche.