Event:Maker Faire Africa

http://makerfaireafrica.com/

When: August 14-16, 2009 (note: l10n work week takes place Aug 3 - 7 in Berlin)

Description: "Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. This event is free to the general public."

Facility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana-India_Kofi_Annan_Centre_for_Excellence_in_ICT

Goals

• Educate and instruct on how to leverage Mozilla platform and web platform
• Create localization opportunities
• Have Mozilla be a visible supporter of this new non-profit, all open-source conference

Status

• Sent involvement ideas to organizers, waiting for feedback on what kind of audience will be attending.

Outstanding Needs/To-Dos

• Determine who is able to attend
• Connect with local contributors
• Determine activities
  • Booth/table?
  • Hacking event?
  • Localization training -- Mozilla can show quite easily how to build a language pack add-on and then upload it to AMO for people to use. The session can be done most likely in 1 hour, but could be extended to a longer session if necessary.
• What technical resources will be available at the event? (connectivity, power, etc)

Promoting event:

Mozilla Attendees

• Axel Hecht will be going
• If you are interested in attending please check out our page for both Mozilla community members and employees.

Contacts

• Mark Grimes, event organizer/sponsor, Ned.com (via Dietrich)
• Raymond Etornam Agbeame, incoming QA intern from Ghana, might know local mozilla contributors interested in participating?
• Taku Joey, contributor in Harare, contacted to see if interested in attending (via Alix)
• Jay said he'd contact our campus reps in Ghana ( Kwamena Appiah-Kubi )
• Kasahorow
  • http://kasahorow.org/all/project
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9978