<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Good day Armi, This sounds exciting, wow! I'm from Windhoek, Namibia and if you do pass here please give me a shout. There's a few of us that would be happy to meet you. Kind Regards Ndapewa V. Hangula Fax: +278 666 121 93 http://pewa.livejournal.com "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss - US author and illustrator (1904 - 1991) --- On Fri, 5/21/10, Armi Korhonen <armi@thepenguintrail.org> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Armi Korhonen <armi@thepenguintrail.org> Subject: [UbuntuWomen] About The Penguin Trail project To: ubuntu-women@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 2:20 PM <div class="plainMail">Hi all! I briefly introduced our project in the #ubuntu-women IRC channel (as Ihmepupu), but I just noticed that this might be a better way of reaching people! A quick introduction to the project: ‘The Penguin Trail – Cape to Cairo’ is a project by two women, Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen, who are traveling from Cape Town to Cairo, starting January 2011, while raising awareness for free and open source software (FLOSS). The aim of the project is to: * Learn what different organizations in African countries are doing around Open Source for Development and find out what still needs to be done * Inform the general public in and outside of Africa about the possibilities of FLOSS * Inform the open source community about the needs for software projects in Africa So basically we are going to work as kind of a communication hub in between the people of Africa (whether it be the general public or different organizations or ICT4D projects), the FLOSS and COSS communities and companies and also the general public in other countries, people who are interested to follow our trip, but in the same time will be informed about the benefits of FLOSS. The project has already attracted attention, not only from FLOSS and ICT4D people, but also the mainstream media. We are also in the talks of producing our trip into a TV-series. We intend to use all the publicity for the benefit of the open source cause. Please note that our project is not Ubuntu specific, but as we are both Ubuntu users, it'll be undoubtedly a big part of our project. In addition to the points stated above, we are also interested in gathering female only groups along our journey to see if they have specific needs and interests and conduct training around the subjects of interest. I haven't had a chance to look into it yet, if there are any African Ubuntu Women LoCo teams out there. If there are, then we would certainly be interested in meeting you. If there's not, then perhaps we would be able to spread the word along our way and something might spawn from that. If you have any questions or comments, or ideas how we could help the Ubuntu Women, then please don't hesitate to contact us! The easiest way would be to send e-mail to <a ymailto="mailto:info@thepenguinrail.org" href="/mc/compose?to=info@thepenguinrail.org">info@thepenguinrail.org</a> or to me directly to <a ymailto="mailto:armi@thepenguintrail.org" href="/mc/compose?to=armi@thepenguintrail.org">armi@thepenguintrail.org</a> (I'm reading both of those e-mails, so it's just a matter of taste, which one to use). Cheers, Armi -- Ubuntu-Women mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Ubuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=Ubuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Women@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-women</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>