[loco-contacts] [Ubuntu-mu] Mention of Ubuntu at National Computer Board workshop

[Nayar Joolfoo]

Nice write-up (y)

Do you guys think the new Technology minister would pay heed to install
Ubuntu with Libreoffice in primary schools? Atleast for new schools?

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Pablo Rubianes <pablorubianes-uy at ubuntu.com
> wrote:

> Nice work Ish!
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:53 AM Ish Sookun <ish at hacklog.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I attended a workshop[1] by the National Computer Board of Mauritius
>> yesterday. The Minister of Technology, Communication and Innovation, Hon.
>> Pravind Jugnauth, opened the workshop and in his speech he mentioned the
>> way forward for Mauritius to embrace Open Source Software. He took as
>> example Ubuntu that sprouted in Africa and mentioned we should follow the
>> steps.
>>
>> It is encouraging to see a keen interest in FOSS mentioned by a Minister
>> :-)
>>
>> [1]
>> http://hacklog.in/world-telecommunication-information-society-day-2015/
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> ​Ish Sookun
>>
>> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
>> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/IshSookun ^^ Do you tweet?
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