I heard in the past year more interest in an African ApacheCon. However
the suggested venue was somewhere closer to Europe, like Morocco. I
suspect this is still too far away from the South African crowd, right?
Best,
Hadrian
On 10/16/2015 06:03 PM, Wyngaard, Jane R (398M-Affiliate) wrote:
Hi All,
I attended Apache Con Europe (big data and core) two weeks ago and a couple of
us were floating the idea of getting an ApacheCon Africa to happen. We were
talking South Africa specifically given our origins but in general the
continent’s awake to tech and open source and S. Africa’s just one part.
The essence of our discussions distilled down to - make a monetary business
case for it and it could happen - so I just wanted to stick this out there so
the idea could maybe start to evolve…
Reasons for it to happen:
- There are a bunch of apache committers in S. Africa but honestly it’s super
expensive for us to get to any ApacheCon elsewhere (flip side - it’s cheap to
come to us)
- It’s a stunning venue!
- S. Africa’s the gateway to Africa in so much as importing tech is concerned
(Nigeria and others aren’t waiting for the world but are just inventing their
own<http://fossfa.net/> (Free software and open source foundation for Africa) :)
- There are big tech projects happening and more coming: i.e things to get
involved in / things to expose to ASF
Eg: The Square Kilometer Array telescope <http://www.ska.ac.za/meerkat/> or HPC
community<http://www.chpcconf.co.za/> , or Space
science<http://www.sansa.org.za/earthobservation/services> and engineering community or
energy community or business
- And just for kicks – apparently we know how to use water powered rockets best
(yesterday’s
slashdot<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/08/1639243/university-of-cape-town-team-breaks-world-water-rocketry-record>)
Honestly, I’m sure others know more and better reasons than me too. Obviously
we're biased – it would benefit the S. Africa software community more than
anything else - but also think it’d be a win for ASF community!
Jane
Other links:
OpenSource software and small businesses conference
2016<http://www.waset.org/conference/2016/01/johannesburg/ICOSSSB>
Banking<http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/financial/2015/07/16/nedbank-rolls-out-sas-first-big-data-service>
openOffice supporting African
Languages<http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-282/computing/open-office-now-avai/en>
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Jane Wyngaard, Ph.D
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Instrument software and science data systems Section (398)
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