On 21/05/2009, Chairman itSMF Kenya <
chair@itsmfea.co.ke> wrote:
> On 20/05/2009, Evans Ikua <
ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is an open invitation to members of this forum to the inaugural Kenya
>> Open Source Awards to be held on 27th May at the Panafric Hotel, Nairobi.
>> The event will kick off at 2.30. It will be preceded by a media briefing
>> at
>> 12.30 which will also be attended by the guest oh honour.
>>
>> As earlier communicated, details are on our website,
www.lpakenya.org.
>>
>> The nominations are still ongoing. Its amazing the kind of project
>> nominations that we have received so far. One of the biggest gains that we
>> intend to make from these awards is to map the FOSS community on Kenya. We
>> hope to get a clear picture of who is involved in what project in the FOSS
>> community. Its a kind of an audit of our FOSS activity.
>>
>> We again appeal to you to nominate any individuals, projects or
>> organizations that are actively involved in Open Source so that we can
>> consider them along those that we already have. We know that there is
>> quite
>> a bit of FOSS activity going on out there but nobody knows what the other
>> is
>> doing.
>>
>> For instance, do you know of a hospital that has implemented an open
>> source
>> solution like Care2X? Or a Government Ministry that is running entirely on
>> Linux (I have heard about the Ministry of Youth Affairs but am not sure,
>> anyone with info?). Anyone who has helped an organization to fully migrate
>> to FOSS? Or an Educational institution that uses/trains a lot of Open
>> Source
>> (Like Strath)? Or anyone who has a FOSS project at Freshmeat or
>> Sourceforge
>> etc? Any Individuals who have done some innovative solutions on Open
>> Source?
>> This information will be highly appreciated and we urge you all to come
>> out
>> and support this initiative by giving this information. Please dont forget
>> that you cn also nominate yourself or your organization. Pass the word
>> around.
>>
>> The full list of the award recipients will be availed before the event
>> once
>> we complete the nomination process.
>>
>> Thank you in advance and see you all there.
>>
>> Evans Ikua,
>> LPA-Kenya
>>
>
>
> @Evans,
> You can contact me offlist for details of the on-going FOSS ERP project at
> KRA.
>
> Nick Wambugu
>
nick.wambugu@kra.go.ke
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