Hey Thanks! Good to know - I hadn¹t heard about that discussion!
Hmm, ja it¹s actually probably actually cheaper for SA people to get to Europe than Morocco but still definitely good for the continent and ASF community at large. I presume this was coming out of there being Moroccan people in ASF? - If you¹re on this list lets talk! :) I¹d support either, or even maybe Nigeria or Kenya. I suppose Morocco has the advantage of easy access for EU people but I suspect the Linux Foundation would make more money hosting in SA - just a gut instinct, could be wrong about that, but I think it would attract more local attendees than elsewhere! Others thoughts? Jane On 16/10/2015 15:11, "Hadrian Zbarcea" <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 continent¹s awake to tech and open source and S. Africa¹s >>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 evolveŠ >> >> Reasons for it to happen: >> - There are a bunch of apache committers in S. Africa but honestly >>it¹s super expensive for us to get to any ApacheCon elsewhere (flip side >>- it¹s cheap to come to us) >> - It¹s a stunning venue! >> - S. Africa¹s the gateway to Africa in so much as importing tech is >>concerned (Nigeria and others aren¹t 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 (yesterday¹s >>slashdot<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/08/1639243/university-of-ca >>pe-town-team-breaks-world-water-rocketry-record>) >> >> Honestly, I¹m sure others know more and better reasons than me too. >>Obviously we're biased it would benefit the S. 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