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Archive for October, 2005

King Babar wins Yfm competition

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

It was announced on Friday that King Babar a.k.a. Nathan Redpath won the remixing competition with his track, ‘Gassed Up‘. His remix used samples from Zskilz and Askari - all from the ccmixterSA website. The site is really looking great after a bit of a slow start. Almost 20 artists are busy remixing as we […]

Call for applications: Africa Source II

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Africa Source II will be an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with and within NGOs on the continent. It will take place in one of the most beautiful parts of the Kalangala Island on Victoria Lake during the beginning of January 2006.
Africa Source II will focus on […]

Open Business Model launches at the Tate Britain, London

Friday, October 14th, 2005

OpenBusiness.cc was launched at the Tate Gallery, Britain on 8 October 2005. It is a platform for sharing innovative Open Business ideas - entrepreneurial ideas which are built around openness, free services and free access.
Open business is designed to help the little guys along on their journey, to spread their ideas while creating […]

FOSS Road, Tajikistan

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

I’m in Tajikistan this week helping to facilitate the FOSS Road: Central Asian camp on free software migration at the request of our friends at Tacticaltech. Read my blog for daily updates.

Open Business Model project launches at the Tate

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Kerryn McKay and I are helping to launch the Open Business Model Project at the Tate Britain on Saturday (8 Oct). The Tate is hosting a conference called ‘Open Congress: Creativity and the Public Domain‘ with speakers such as Cory Doctorow speaking about how open source-inspired methods can transform arts and its institutions. The Commons-sense […]