There will be paper based exams taking place in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.  All LPI exams will be offered and any interested candidates need to book in advance to be able to participate. For more info, please contact ikua at fossfa dot net.

It was great ,unforgetable day in the history of Free and Open Source Software in Tanzania, as we celebrated Software freedom Day 2012. With  VIPs  around, Participants from the media, academics, business world, lawyers, software developoers, hackers present in the venue…! some from outside the
country , Germany, Canada, Finland, Kenya, what a re-union? i met my
former schoolmate who came all the way from Arusha, Mwanza, Zanzibar,
Iringa and Mbeya to participate in the event…! its a great day…!

From September 16th till September 21st the programme team will meet in Tanzania for a week of workshops.
We have a full week ahead: Monday: Pillar C - Evaluating the Internship Programme
Tuesday - Wednesday - Evaluation Workshop
Thursday - Volunteer Community Workshop
Friday - Steering Committee Meeting

Nairobi had a series of SFD activities planned.

The first was student challenge which was organised on 31st August at Strathmore University. During this day a number of students made presentation on IT projects that they have developed or are currently working on that are based on FOSS.

A number of interesting projects were demonstrated.

ict@innovation has been running successfully for the past four years.

Look what ict@innovation has achieved so far. Today, we have
111 trainers on Business Models and 69 on certification,
Over 300 members on the FBT mailing list and more than 150 on the LPI mailing list
750 individual members and 500 FOSS-related organisations registered on the ict@innovation website

As the GIZ-funded phase of the project is coming to an end, the project management team is finding new ways to make sure that ict@innovation will continue to be managed after 2012.

SFD 2012 – Invitation to Participate

Fee : 100,000/- Tshs

Offer to students from Higher Learning Institutions (1st 5, 15% discount)

Day : Saturday 09h00 to 13hrs ; Sunday 14h30 to 18h30

Duration : 3 weeks

Day 2 of Linux Essential classe at InCo Lab in Dar es Salaam
continued
yesterday (on Sunday) with a attendance of 16/20 participants.
Topics covered were Introduction to Linux & its shell environment.
Classes will continues next week. Follow us at http://facebook.com/inkoteki

A long waited Linux Essential class has kicked-off on 30th June 2012 in Dar es Salaam with 12 out 20 students reporting. The classes will last for not more than six weeks.

Some of the participating institutions :

Institute for Finance and Management (IFM)
University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
Aptech
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)
St.Joseph College of Engineering and Technology
Institute of Information and Technology (IIT)
College of Business Education (CBE)

Trainers : Edward Mwangile, Frank Tilugulilwa & Jimmy Mbelwa

The Linux Learning Centre will be hosting its first LPI exam lab at their training centre. For further details, please get in touch.