Ten schools in one day

16 Jun

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The Schools' Linux Users' Group reached their target of installing over 210 computers using exclusively Open Source software computer labs in ten schools in the Western Cape area. The progress was monitored live on P4 104.9FM radio, broadcasting from Duneside Primary School. The Shuttleworth Foundation, as usual, organised the PCs and provided project management (and played gopher for the groups).

LCB cleanup

07 Jun

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Spent Saturday morning with the SLUG folks cleaning up their Computer Bank for the over 200 PCs that are going to be tested for the upcoming 10-schools-in-one-day event. While we were there, we managed to ship the first 20 of those PCs to the first school. Chatting to Hilton Theunissen, we figured that SLUG and The Shuttleworth Foundation will very soon have put 1000 computers running Linux into schools in the Western Cape.

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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