If the interest is in having media publicity, Mr. Mugaba Vincent of New Vision would be of great help. I have copied this mail to him hope that he can follow the string and find out what we need.
regards Lunghabo > I second you Joseph on the approach. I believe this will go along way in > enlightening all the local Techies and would-be Techies (Sorry if I am > offending anyone by referring to them as Techies). Believe me or not but > many of our own System Admins in these organizations might not be > getting the full concept of all this and the implications. > > And more importantly the education of the decision-makers (likes of > managers, etc.) since they give the Techies the go-ahead by agreeing to > sign the cheques for the second hosting fees. > > Mark you can surely comeup with a good article spelling out the > Technical, Social, etc. and obviously the Financial sides to all this. > And New Vision seems to have some page dedicated to such articles every > so often! > > > Ronald Bogere Mitti > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Mpora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: lug_: Members/Site Access > > Hullo All, > > It's a shame that ISPs didn't jump at the exchange offer! I think > another approach would be to educate the public more, put in newspaper > articles and promote those that have joined. A list of all ISPs that > have joined up and those that haven't might help. I know this is not a > very polite approach but the truth is the customers deserve better! > > Joseph > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Mark Tinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:16 +0300 > Subject: RE: lug_: Members/Site Access > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hullo Mark, >> > >> > For a long time I have considered the possibility of mirroring the >> WOUGNET site locally and so it is with great interest that I read >> your mail below. How can we go about doing this? Currently, we are >> hosted by Kabissa.org <http://www.kabissa.org>. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Dorothy >> >> Hi Dorothy. >> >> This is quite simple really. While there have been several methods and >> techniques tabled to make mirroring dynamic and scalabale, the only >> method >> we can go with in the immediate, is to have a main page on your >> website that >> provides links to either the Ugandan-hosted copy of your site, or the >> Kabissa.org one. >> >> The links are based on IP addresses, and users in Uganda with limited >> capacity would experience faster connections to your website, as it >> would be >> accessible via the exchange. >> >> In terms of connectivity, all you need to do is host WOUGNET with one >> of the >> ISPs that are currently connected to the exchange; which are: >> >> 1. Africa Online >> 2. Wilken Afsat >> 3. UTL Online >> 4. MTN Uganda >> >> Once you acquire colo space at any of these ISPs, the WOUGNET site >> will be >> locally accessible. >> >> Regards, >> >> Mark Tinka - CCNA >> Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
