Other Idlelo coverage
27 Feb
Both Tectonic and Heather Ford covered Rishab Ghosh's presentation on the first day of Idlelo on FOSS development, developers, and their motivation based on a number of studies. Tectonic also has a story on Mark Shuttleworth's talk at Idlelo, focused on the telecommunications aspect.
I'm not sure there's an icon I can put on my web site (or if I was sane at the time), but I'm now a FOSSFA council member. The AGM was held on the first official night of the conference, and in between much tension, the FOSSFA constitution was ratified, and the council elected. Tectonic had coverage.
My conference roommate, Alastair Otter, has written a piece on the state of African free software for his magazine, Tectonic, based on the Idlelo experience (including Microsoft's partipation and platform). (He's mostly convinced me to write a piece on KnowledgeTree too.)
Idlelo 2: The trip there
27 Feb
Perhaps falsely, I consider myself to be reasonably able to avoid emotion overtaking logical thought. My trip to Nairobi, however, made The Incredible Hulk seem a calm and collected individual.
Off to Kenya
22 Feb
I'm about to leave home for the airport, on my way to Kenya for Idlelo 2, organised by Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa, and where the secretariat for the foundation will be transferred to the Meraka Institute.
Woo, only two weeks to go. The release candidate release was the smoothest so far - our time-estimation and scoping seem to be improving. Besides the feature adding and bug fixing, Brad found a great icon set that now pervades the KnowledgeTree experience (and also made some graphics for the Windows Installer, which looks quite cool, if you can get over that whole Windows thing). To get an idea of how busy we've been, inside's a look at the issues closed for 3.0b4 and 3.0rc1.
Like Ian, I noticed Google News added a South African Edition sometime yesterday or so. I've also discovered that Google News seems to support having the same section repeated on the personalised news, so I now have 18 stories from South Africa on the left, and World (U.K.), Business (South African Edition), and some other stuff on the right.