series of events in sub-Saharan Africa for software developers
For those that may not yet have caught the announcement on the Google Africa blog<http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2009/08/announcing-g-africa-initiative.html>, there are details on an initiative that has been launched for software developers who reside in sub-Saharan Africa. - Chris
Way cool! On Tuesday, August 11, 2009, Christopher Kiagiri <ck@google.com> wrote:
For those that may not yet have caught the announcement on the Google Africa blog <http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2009/08/announcing-g-africa-initiative.html>, there are details on an initiative that has been launched for software developers who reside in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Chris
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Interesting initiative though the data collection is a bit shallow - Silverlight is not a language - Glaring omissions like C#, VB.NET, Delphi On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mworia Wilfred Mutua <wmworia@gmail.com>wrote:
Way cool!
On Tuesday, August 11, 2009, Christopher Kiagiri <ck@google.com> wrote:
For those that may not yet have caught the announcement on the Google
Africa blog < http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2009/08/announcing-g-africa-initiative.html>, there are details on an initiative that has been launched for software developers who reside in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Chris
-- Regards,
Mworia Wilfred Mutua
Resume: http://www.visualcv.com/wmworia LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wmworia Facebook: http://facebook.com/wmworia Twitter: http://twitter.com/wmworia googletalk: wmworia Yahoo IM: wilfred.mworia
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Looks like they are targeting what is used on their platform. i know the primary languages used at google are python and c/c++ then the others follow... yada yada -- SKYPE: sobbayi US: +1 202 470 0525 KE: +254 722 627 691 Rad! wrote:
Interesting initiative though the data collection is a bit shallow
* Silverlight is not a language * Glaring omissions like C#, VB.NET <http://VB.NET>, Delphi
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mworia Wilfred Mutua <wmworia@gmail.com <mailto:wmworia@gmail.com>> wrote:
Way cool!
On Tuesday, August 11, 2009, Christopher Kiagiri <ck@google.com <mailto:ck@google.com>> wrote: > > For those that may not yet have caught the announcement on the Google Africa blog <http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2009/08/announcing-g-africa-initiative.html>, there are details on an initiative that has been launched for software developers who reside in sub-Saharan Africa. > > > > - Chris >
-- Regards,
Mworia Wilfred Mutua
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python and c/c++ can easily make calls to supported dlls (COM dlls - written using vb 6 n earlier). .net dlls i dont know n pascal is almost at par with c/c++
Sounds exciting...I'm in :-) "Excellent people exceed expectations". ________________________________ From: Christopher Kiagiri <ck@google.com> To: skunkworks@my.co.ke Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:24:11 AM Subject: [Skunkworks] series of events in sub-Saharan Africa for software developers For those that may not yet have caught the announcement on the Google Africa blog, there are details on an initiative that has been launched for software developers who reside in sub-Saharan Africa. - Chris
participants (6)
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Christopher Kiagiri -
Jacob Ayienda -
Mworia Wilfred Mutua -
Nicholas Loki -
Rad! -
Steve Obbayi