Event:Maker Faire Africa
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When: August 14-16, 2009
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."
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
Confirmed Activities:
Outstanding Needs/To-Dos:
- Determine who is able to attend
- Connect with local contributors
- Determine activities
- Booth/table?
- Hacking event?
- Localization training?
Promoting event:
Mozilla Attendees
- Your name here
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