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March 10-12, 2020
Lake Tahoe, California
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Thursday, March 12 • 11:00am - 11:30am
Open Sourcing Africa - Sander van Vugt & Santos Ver Chibenga, Living Open Source Foundation

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One of our Zambian sponsors wanted to shift to an open-source policy. Due to the scarcity of local talent, they needed to fly in consultants from Europe, for a daily rate that is equivalent to 3 local monthly salaries. After the pilot, the project was killed as it was less expensive to use proprietary software.

This talk explains how Living Open Source Foundation is educating Africans in Open Source technology with the help of Linux Foundation. This is a challenging mission, as the foundation of IT education is weak in many countries. Nevertheless, participants to the large scale events organised is huge, with more than 500 participants in Malawi.

This talk is a happy story that explains how Open Source can change local economies. At the same time this talk is calling for potential sponsors, because a lot is needed to make a sustainable change. The talk will give an overview of current projects.
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Santos Venter Chibenga

Co-Founder and Community lead, Living Open Source Foundation
Santos is a Zambia national, who started organising small scale local community events in Zambia. When Santos met Sander they decided to organise an event together, to educate local talent. The event was successful, and since the Living Open Source Foundation has spread its activity... Read More →
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Sander van Vugt

co-founder, Living Open Source Foundation
Sander van Vugt is a best selling author on Open Source related topics, as well as founder of the Living Open Source Foundation (livingopensource.net). As an author Sander teaches multiple online classes monthly, and Sander has been a speaker on major Linux conferences, including... Read More →

Thursday March 12, 2020 11:00am - 11:30am PDT
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