FOSSFA AGM, new council, constitution

27 Feb 2006

I'm not sure there's an icon I can put on my web site (or if I was sane at the time), but I'm now a FOSSFA council member. The AGM was held on the first official night of the conference, and in between much tension, the FOSSFA constitution was ratified, and the council elected. Tectonic had coverage.

My aim is to represent open source developers in Africa (aided by Guido Sohne as developers-first, and a few people who don't wear their developer hats primarily at the moment) and to ensure proper process in terms of transparency and good governance.

1 old-style comments

  1. Fouad Riaz Bajwa — March 05, 2006 at 04:37 PM.

    Hi Neil, I was there with you and am a proud member as well though from the other side of the world :) but the FOSS Community is not restricted by nations, cultures, religion, race etc..... I am really happy things will be smooth at FOSSFA after the institution of the constitution and the council members :)
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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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