Dear All,<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Keats</b> <<a href="mailto:dkeats@uwc.ac.za">dkeats@uwc.ac.za</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>It would be nice for an African initiative to support the growth of an<br>African software ecosystem. So far most of our support is from outside
<br>Africa. It seems that trust for African solutions might be higher in<br>other parts of the world than it is in our own neighbourhood. This is<br>something that we have to break.<br>d</blockquote>
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<div>Let us see with the hosting institution what is possible to do. And I think that this go beyond the AfREN list only. Institutions represented in our community may find Chisimba an excellent tool for communication and sharing. I strongly recommend to test it.
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<div>As Aminu did, I would also suggest that everyone who can, join the effort being done by the AVOIR network. It's a exemplary collaborative action that has produced an excellent tool. There is still a lot to do, and there is place for everybody (coding, debugging, localisation, documentation, etc.). See
<a href="http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/">http://avoir.uwc.ac.za</a> for more details.</div>
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<div>B.</div>
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