On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:56, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should talk with these people. Anybody here have contacts?
Contact details for Derek Keats are on http://ics.uwc.ac.za/. Regards Morgan > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Chifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:54 AM > Subject: [BDPA-Africa] African developers release open source virtual > classroom > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > African developers release open source virtual classroom > September 16 2008 > > The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the African Virtual Open > Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) project have released version 1.0.1 > of the Chisimba/KEWL3 Realtime Virtual Classroom. > > Avoir is a a collaboration of 13 African universities specialising in > creating free software relevant to African users. > > The virtual classroom application allows presentations to be uploaded > in PowerPoint or OpenOffice format and made available online as well > as embedded in websites or blogged. > > The Realtime Tools allow the presentation to be picked up and given > live on the site, in a realtime virtual classroom setting. > > The developer on this project is David Wafula, a masters student at > UWC and a staff member of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and > Technology and a member of the AVOIR unit there. > > "Most notable in this release," says Wafula, "is the improved easy-to- > use interface, > which runs in its own window as opposed to using embedded applet used > in version 1.0.0." > > The latest release allows presenters to share desktop applications in > real time with other participants. Importing presentations into the > the application is a one-click operation. The virtual classroom > software also allows users to import graphics as well as transfer > multiple documents. > > Downloadable versions of the software will be available in Debian, > RPM, Java and Windows executable formats. The Debian version is > currently available. > > Users can test drive the software online on the demo site. > > AVOIR project leader, Derek Keats of UWC, says that this is the first > application of its kind in the world that is free software. "It > demonstrates the remarkable, world class talent that we have in > Africa and what can be achieved when we collaborate to accomplish > something." > > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3070 > > --- End forwarded message --- > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Take 2003 BDPA Survey! > http://www.feedbackasp.com/bdpa > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BDPA-Africa/ > > <*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > > <*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BDPA-Africa/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > <*> To change settings via email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > -- > Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams > fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still ahead in EC! > http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
