At last Africa seems to be building on the momentum of Open Source expansion within the Fedora community. These days under the guidance of Sascha Thomas Spreitzer, we are working on expanding the reach of Fedora within the African community. What does this imply? Well first of all we will be empowering local ambassadors with the resources needed to build communities and recruit contributors who can help the project grow. For Mauritius it means that we will be getting media directly (budget has already been voted) from the Fedora Project that can be distributed to people with bandwidth constraints, organize release parties and take Fedora to another level within our local community. I am really excited with the recent developments as I have envied the other regions for a while, looking at the way the communities have been built. Watch this space as this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Message that kick-starts a new beginning for Africa:

Dear friends,

as we have come to con sense about to draw a deeper focus on the africa section of EMEA Ambassadors I kindly want to invite you to participate and contribute in a a new initiative to spread the word in africa.

Please take a look at the Wiki pages Amit Caleechurn created for us:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Africa
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EMEA/Africa/Meetings

I have also scheduled a meeting;

Topics; bootstrapping africa, media production africa

Date: Wednesday 21st april
Time: 19:00 UTC
Place: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net

Meeting Info: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Africa_Ambassadors_2010-4-21
Time and Date at your location:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=21&month=4&year=2010&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

Please all feel free to attend and help us to spread the word in the
africa region.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards,
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer

http://spreitzer.name/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sspreitzer

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