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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Fwd: [dot] [notify] Free and Open Source Nigeria
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-01-06 16:39:57
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0901060839g61734ccfod147ba59d4271a7f () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi all,

Well, it's incredibly cool to see him moving forward with this. To be
honest, I didn't really expect it.

Sounds like a huge move for FOSS in this part of the world, imho we
should try to support it.

It seems they take care of local food, lodging etc so we would have to
take care of our speakers travel costs etc. That shouldn't be too much
to ask, right? It is on rather short notice and I've been spending my
yearly days off like crazy but I'd be willing to go through some
trouble to help them out. And I'm sure so would others.

Grtz

Jos

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Troy Unrau <troy.unrau@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think this was really meant for the dot...
> 
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> Date: 2009/1/6
> Subject: [dot] [notify] Free and Open Source Nigeria 2009
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> The message contents are as follows:
> 
> Subject: Free and Open Source Nigeria 2009
> From: Mustapha Abubakar <mustapha@hutsoftnigeria.com>
> Date: Tuesday 06/Jan/2009, @03:49
> 
> Free and Open Source Nigeria 2009
> 
> I am glad to notify you guys that we have finally got the approval
> from Bayero University Kano
> Nigeria (http://www.buk.edu.ng/). Third most bigest and government
> owned university in
> northern Nigeria with more than 45,000 students. 70% of the attendents
> are going to be
> students from higher institutions from the northern part of the
> country,while 2% are
> government representatives,10% academicians and 17% are people that
> will come outside from
> the academic enviroments. And most of the people want to know what is
> FREE AND OPEN SOURCE. We
> are expecting more than 2000 participants from our analysis from
> within the university and
> outside the university. Now, we want to send letters of invitation to
> all KDE members and any
> other person including organisations,companies e.t.c who want to come
> and give his/her
> contributions to us during the event. We will be glad to recieve
> guests from all over the
> world,especially people with vast experiences in open source. Due to
> our little resources
> ,the commitee can only take care of our guest feeding,accomodation and
> site visits of all
> those that will come from outside the country(though we are going to
> look for a donations if we
> can get any). The programme will take place at BAYERO UNIVERSITY KANO,KANO
> STATE,NIGERIA,starting from 6th to 9th march 2009. We will like to
> release the programme of
> events by 19th january 2009.Therefore we will like to know those that
> will like to speak and
> give workshop so that we will speed up our arrangements in time. From
> our analysis so far, 90% of
> the participants are ignorants of FREE AND OPEN SOURCE IDEAS AND
> MOVEMENTS,while the
> remaining have heard about the idea but dont know it's values and
> importance. Though this is
> going to be the first free and open source conference in northern
> Nigeria with more than
> 100Million people. We willl be glad if you will forward this mail to
> all kde members and those
> that you think will have intrest in assisting in one way or the other
> (if you think will help).
> Please fell free to contact me if their is any way that you think you
> can help us in actualising
> our dream. All interested companies who wants to advertise it's open
> source products and
> services can send thier banners,pamplets,stickers,shirts or any thing
> that can sell the
> idea to our community FREE OF CHARGE so that it can be distributed or
> place in all the programme
> halls. Thanks and waiting for your response:). Mustapha Abubakar,
> Organiser Free and
> OpenSource Nigeria 2009, kano state, Nigeria. +234 80 39310295
> mustapha@hutsoftnigeria.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Troy Unrau
> Geophysics - University of Manitoba
> 
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