[wsfii-discuss] WSFII Africa 2007 - Winneba,Ghana

Mon Dec 11 10:21:47 UTC 2006

		Hi ALL: 
Dan mentioned,
Keep in mind, that there are planning for WSFII Africa in Aug/Sep already. ;) 

Yes. This is really in the planning stages and things are moving really well here - Ghana. As of now, I can confirm the partnership of the University of Education, Winneba . The Vice Chancellor has agreed to host the event...and even host the team from Germany who plans to be here in April - Daniel, Kloschie, Fred, etc. He is totally supportive of the summit and especially the 10-day Wireless Roadshow which will manifest the completion of OVF's Winneba Open Digital Village Project;This will leave a community wireless network for the above five thousand students in Winneba mainly for Educational purposes.

In line with preparations, I also had a meeting yesterday (10th Dec, 06) with the Projects Coordinator of Wireless Ghana- www.wirelessghana.com,  Gideon Amoah and the Coordinating Team of the Winneba Linux user Group - www.wilugghana.org . We discussed amongst others partnership issues and colloaboration for the WSFII Africa 2007 and Wireless Roadshow.

Early next year -2007, OVF Team from USA will be in Ghana for futher planning for the event and the implementation of the Open Digital Village project. Truly, we have and will continue to put in all we have including our hearts to make it a truly impacting and memorable event - less talk, more action which Africa needs to leap frog.

Will keep you all in the loop as events unfold.

Welcome to Africa >Ghana > Winneba!

Best regards...

Kafui ~ www.kafui.com 

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				From: Daniel Paufler <d.paufler at fhtw-berlin.de>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:03 AM
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] WSFII Summit in Catalonia by the end of April 2.007 (27th-29th) 

Hey Ramon

>> Unfortunately, the Barcelona event now
>> interferrence with wireless community weekend in Berlin. Anyhow, would
>> be good to have both in that calendar.

> We are currently discussing in moving to July or not...
> In the meantime, I'm not sure that really conflicts. That's why I asking
> for confirmation of the contents. If Berlin focus on firmwares
> (Freifunk/Openwrt..) and routing mesh protocols such OLSR/Batman, I
> think that there is a chance to be complementary. That's what I'm trying
> to find out.
Its always good to have both kind of people around, but imho its ok if
not. The people can chosse whether they are more attraceted by tech or
social topics. We must not try everytime to do an event to be attended
by everyone. Its ok to have such an event once a year. Its a good idea
to not choose the exact dates, however.

Regards

Daniel

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Angewandte Informatik - Computer Aided Facility Managemnt
FHTW Berlin (http://www.fhtw-berlin.de)

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