| grantbow | hello ebel | 10:30 |
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| ebel | hello grantbow | 10:30 |
| grantbow | Can you make it to the Ubuntu Hour this thursday in Nairobi? | 10:30 |
| grantbow | I just emailed the list today. | 10:31 |
| ebel | Ah, I'm afraid not, I'm quite a distance away.... in Ireland. ☺ | 10:32 |
| ebel | Good to see there's some activity going on. | 10:32 |
| ebel | I was in Kenya in 2008 teaching ubuntu/linux, so I've added #ubuntu-ke to my IRC autojoin. ☺ | 10:33 |
| grantbow | cool! I'm in Nairobi for another two months from the San Francisco area of California. | 10:34 |
| ebel | cool. | 10:37 |
| ebel | I was in mombasa area. never spent much time in nairobi | 10:37 |
| ebel | I was involved with an irish charity (camara) that sends 2nd hand computers to schools in africa. they put linux on them of course. | 10:38 |
| ebel | http://camara.ie/web/ | 10:38 |
| ebel | They have a hub/workshop in Kenya, but in Mombasa AFAIR | 10:38 |
| ebel | There might camara people/schools/local volunteers in nairobi, if you wanna get in touch | 10:39 |
| grantbow | interesting! In SF I work with a computer recycler http://mcrc.org that provides hardware for our Linux in schools nonprofit http://partimus.org | 10:39 |
| * ebel spent a month showing teaching local volunteers in mombasa how to use linux and ubuntu and stuff | 10:39 | |
| grantbow | I would love to get in touch with folks in Kenya. | 10:39 |
| grantbow | Maybe I can help give them a refresher course :-) | 10:40 |
| grantbow | or learn from them by now | 10:40 |
| grantbow | ;-) | 10:40 |
| ebel | Yeah. | 10:41 |
| ebel | http://kenya.camara.ie/ | 10:41 |
| ebel | ping someone there | 10:42 |
| grantbow | OK! Thanks. ebel, are you familiar with http://loveshackkenya.ie and Karen Ward who is also staying at http://Dreamfish.com like I am? | 10:50 |
| ebel | no... | 10:59 |
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