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| ebel | How do I go about getting ubotu or similar into #ubuntu-ke (the Kenyan LoCo team channel) | 10:40 |
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| ebel | ompaul got it to stay in #ubuntu-ie (the Irish LoCo channel), but he's not online to ask. | 10:40 |
| ebel | All there is in #ubuntu-ke is locobot, it would be nice to get some factoids | 10:41 |
| elkbuntu | ebel, what language is predominent in kenya? | 10:43 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: Swahili and English are most common, but everyone speaks english. | 10:43 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: so an ubotu in english would be fine. | 10:44 |
| elkbuntu | ok, cool. if it was a french region i would have suggested asking the french team. if you wait around, one of the bot owners will help you | 10:44 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: cool thanks. :D | 10:44 |
| ebel | Kenya is a former british colony, so it's english speaking. | 10:45 |
| elkbuntu | it's hard to keep track of which colonising countries wrecked which parts of the third world, to be honest ;) | 10:45 |
| ebel | Yep. :) | 10:46 |
| elkbuntu | i was never too good at the political geography of the worl | 10:46 |
| * ebel was in kenya for a month teaching linux | 10:46 | |
| elkbuntu | good on you :) | 10:46 |
| * ebel poking the linux people over there to get a bit of community. | 10:47 | |
| ebel | One of my lessons was about using IRC. :) | 10:47 |
| elkbuntu | someone did try early on, but the personality of the person who tried wasnt really amenable to it. came over all entitled and selfish | 10:48 |
| Myrtti | elkbuntu: brits down the nile to south africa, french all the rest save south africa and kongo and ethiopia | 10:48 |
| Myrtti | oh, and namibia too | 10:48 |
| elkbuntu | i knew sth africa was boer/dutch | 10:48 |
| Myrtti | I loved history too much in school | 10:48 |
| elkbuntu | i did modern history, but it all focussed on the bits that involved lots of bullets and stuff | 10:49 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: meh, I was in Mombasa, on the coast. My students were supposed to start using IRC more regular | 10:49 |
| ebel | Myrtti: don't forget the portugeus in mozambique | 10:50 |
| elkbuntu | ebel, yeah, this was a few years ago now. i doubt your pupils were the one i'm thinking of | 10:50 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: yep. | 10:51 |
| ebel | The people I was teaching were new to linux. | 10:51 |
| elkbuntu | but, it really doesnt inspire confidence when the message is literally "we're the *only* african team, we're poor, give us stuff" | 10:51 |
| elkbuntu | this is after there was already a few african teams not including sth africa | 10:52 |
| ebel | Aye, charity sometimes can be a bad thing. | 10:52 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: see I was with an irish charity called camara that sends second hand computers (with ubuntu) to schools in africa | 10:53 |
| ebel | We have set up a local workshop to maintain and distribute these computers, it's all staffed with local volunteers. | 10:53 |
| elkbuntu | nice. i've mentored the venezuelan team a fair bit. i suppose that's my claim to helping a poor country | 10:54 |
| ebel | they need some way to be financially independent. it would be great for us and for them if there is a bit more of a software industry/community in kenya | 10:54 |
| ebel | make the whole thing a bit more self sustaning. | 10:54 |
| ebel | elkbuntu: the venezuelan team seem very active. I always see posts on planet gnome. they are very impressive | 10:55 |
| elkbuntu | a friend of mine took a tonne of computers and stuff to a hospital in PNG and spent a few weeks building them a pretty good network, that was cool | 10:55 |
| elkbuntu | ebel, they are very enthused, yes | 10:55 |
| ebel | PNG? | 10:55 |
| elkbuntu | Papua New Guinea | 10:56 |
| elkbuntu | just north of Australia | 10:56 |
| ebel | Ah yes I know where that is. :) | 10:56 |
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| ebel | Anyone know anything about getting ubotu onto #ubuntu-ke (see above) | 16:17 |
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