[10:40] <ebel> How do I go about getting ubotu or similar into #ubuntu-ke (the Kenyan LoCo team channel)
[10:40] <ebel> ompaul got it to stay in #ubuntu-ie (the Irish LoCo channel), but he's not online to ask.
[10:41] <ebel> All there is in #ubuntu-ke is locobot, it would be nice to get some factoids
[10:43] <elkbuntu> ebel, what language is predominent in kenya?
[10:43] <ebel> elkbuntu: Swahili and English are most common, but everyone speaks english.
[10:44] <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
[10:45] <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 ;)
[10:46] <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 :)
[10:47]  * ebel poking the linux people over there to get a bit of community.
[10:47] <ebel> One of my lessons was about using IRC. :)
[10:48] <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
[10:49] <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
[10:50] <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
[10:51] <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"
[10:52] <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.
[10:53] <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.
[10:54] <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.
[10:55] <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?
[10:56] <elkbuntu> Papua New Guinea
[10:56] <elkbuntu> just north of Australia
[10:56] <ebel> Ah yes I know where that is. :)
[16:17] <ebel> Anyone know anything about getting ubotu onto #ubuntu-ke (see above)