@Wanjau, I'd like you to do me one favour and go into discussion. In a few years time hopefully, KE will have its own Tech City or Areas and I'd like you as a FOSSist to take your MediaWiki and establish a tech software company that will be based in e.g Konza. The MediaWiki will say be an export item that your tech company offers. MediaWiki is downloadable by anyone across the world on the FOSS basis, right? I know Open Source rocks, so how would you offer MediaWiki to the world? Rgds. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:38 AM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Wanjau, for someone as yourself who was new to Open Source this morning sure seems to know Open Source well. :-)
Anyway, I still hope that you will move away from Operating Systems and onto your preferred FOSS frame works etc. But that is your decision. Am glad you are enjoying the FOSS motto, well done. However, my conviction is that core software development suited to localization for either use or export will not come from both proprietary or FOSS vendors. Its what we create that will matter, but you already know this. BTW and IMHO, creating the local Ubuntu is not about it being a swahili version but what skills we can gain out of it. These skills can be applied across the board on many other application developments.
All I will always see is the 2 major hurdles that local software companies have to deal with. Proprietary and FOSS. :-)
Rgds.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com>wrote:
Before we start making an open source version of Ubuntu in Swahili that shall suit us as a country, like Brazil did,We must start somewhere.
Is anyone on this list aware that a group of volunteers from Mozilla-Kenya of which am a member is localizing Firefox into Swahili? On Twitter @mozillakenya <https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%40mozillakenya>
MediaWiki is another open source software on which all Wikimedia projects run. Wikipedia being one of them had 7,636,788,561 page views in January only. Like someone mentioned earlier on this list adopt what you think shall best solve your problem. You can view more Wikimedia Stats here<http://stats.wikimedia.org/>.
Guys/Chicks who build open source products are driven by passion though money must come in but not the primary, because as we cannot eat virtual fruits that we can simulate on our laptops.
It is not about marketing or competition, it is about what you deem fit to use and up to purpose. Take for instance, the recent stats that showed Chrome was doing better was doing better than Firefox. The Mozilla foundation clearly stated that was a good result, since it shows the web is getting better and thats a plus for them since thats their mission.
Why did Facebook decide to open source its own version of PHP, alias HIPHOP Php?.....
Open source rocks and rocks are free.
//Stephen