[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Free Software for Africa - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Jean Jordaan <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: fdl
> Other License: 
> Package: Free Software for Africa
> System name: fs-africa
> Type: 2
> 

Hi,

I have no informations about FSF affiliations in Africa.

Maybe would you start, if it does not already exists, an African FSF
Chapter?
If so, you should contact address@hidden to get informations.

For now, on Savannah we do not host coordination projects unless they
are FSF coordination related.

And you project, as described, cannot really qualify as a software
documentation project since there is no clear focus. For instance,
documenting GNU Bash is a clear focus, and should be a whole
documentation project or part of GNU Bash. But it less easy to
understand what could be documentation related to Africa only. 

If it's not possible to join the FSF, to cooperate directly with the
FSF, could you resubmit your project with examples of documentation
you plan to include?


Regards,

> 
> Description: Our project is to co-ordinate the implementation of
> Free Software as a technological alternative for Africa.
> 
> At a stretch, this could be called a Software Documentation project. 
> It is really an attempt to foster the emergence of an African Free 
> Software community, by introducing the potential users and 
> stakeholders to the tools and networks (technological and social) 
> that make Free Software a compelling alternative for Africa. Although 
> there will probably not be running code among the deliverables of this
> project, at least initially, it will benefit from Savannah 
> functionality such as mailing lists, issue tracking, and versioned 
> document repository. We would like to use the annual Highway Africa 
> conferences [1] to kick off the project. 
> [1] http://www.highwayafrica.org.za/
> 
>  - We will invite the speakers at the conference to join the
>    project, and 
> 
>  - we will assemble and document the ongoing projects showcased at
>    the conference.
> 
> This will be only a starting point; we\'ll seek out related projects
> and explore how to integrate them into the project community.
> 
> This does not exist yet but we\'re working on it.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> 
> Other Comments:
> Contacts: 
>   Jean Jordaan <address@hidden>
>   Roché Compaan <address@hidden>
> 
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Mathieu Roy
 
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