Hallo,

Introducing this month's bit magic event at the Ihub this Saturday (26th, From 2pm)

http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2011/03/bit-magic-forum/

The four presenters for this month are:

1. Michael Pedersen
A talk titled “The European demo scene – The computer as an art platform!”. He's also be demo-ing.

Abstract:
“The demo scene” is a computer subculture, particularly widespread in Europe (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene ). In essence it is doing “grafiti” with your computer - don’t worry I am not about to become “graphical” on you guys, we are still talking about pushing BITS around inside the computer....

2. Edmund Ochieng
Edmund is working on Ushahidi’s J2ME application. He is a Fedora enthusiast and previously, worked on computing clusters for computation infrastructure....

3. Makinde Adiegbo

Makinde worked in the performance team at Facebook, the team that greatly increased the download time for Facebook in late 2010. The talk on this .....

4. Ashok Hariharan
Ashok works on the Open Source Bungeni Project (www.bungeni.org) which is an open-source Parliament Information System. Other projects are Africa i-Parliaments (www.parliaments.info) and Akoma Ntoso.....

Please RSVP at http://bitmagicihub.eventbrite.com/

Bernard