In this episode of open tech exchange i rant on about:

• Nintendo 3DS coolness,
• Unity pains,
• Google +,
• Java 7 - Join the Jozi Jug!
• Centos 6 and Scientific Linux

In this short episode of OTE I caht about:

• Natty Narwhale,
• Google IO
• Android@Home
• Android Open Accessories Kit
• Thunderbird to replace Evolution in Ubuntu?

In this episode I chat about FOSS groupware solutions, the much touted Exchange killers and give my views on the latest one we have tested. I also chat about the Androud Africa Tour and the Google IO Extended event for Jozi.

• SOGo home page,
• Zimbra home page,
• Open XChange home page,
• Scaix home page,
• Jozi Jug Tech Group,
• Google IO Extended
• Google Android Africa Tour

In this episode:

• Making money from open source- Ubuntu with Banshee, Redhat with code "obfuscation" and Google Honeycomb lcokdown
• OpenWRT router firmware, Coova replaces Chilispot, FreeRadius and JRadius, WPA Enterprise not working in netowork manager since 2009!,
• Why virtualisation suxs on Ubuntu, running Lucid as a quest,  Xen and upstart problems and bug report here

In this episode:

• How to get past Local Only ADSL in a pinch,
• Tips on Android keyboard 
• IPV6- Afrinic,
• ICT@Innovation - building foss capacity in Africa

In this episode:

This episode is hosted by Mark and covers:

 

• Review of the Amazon Kindle.
• Android versus Oracle,
• Wikileaks
• Microsoft loves Drupal,

In this episdode we chat about

• Tablets
  • Motorola Xoom, the Xoom runs Android
  • Samsung Galaxy Tablet,
  • Gigabyte Netbook with 3g support - this is what I will probably end up buying while waiting for the tablets to come down in price
• Android.
  • Ginger bread,
  • Honeycom announcement for CES,
  • How to contribute to Android
• Piracy 
  • Microsoft's claims piracy costs jobs and urges governement to crack down!,
• Download Helper Mozilla Addon- 80 million downloads can't be wrong!
• Ubuntu
  • Mark's blog on wayland/unity
  • Wayland and
  • Unity UI

In this episode I chat to Erik from the Ushahidi project and iHub in Kenya, Nairobi. The interview covers Ushahidi, iHub, differences between South Africa and Kenya and developments in Africa.

 

Bonface Witaba is one of the founders of the Centre for Youth Empowerment and Leadership, a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering youth through ICT to achieve Kenya 's Vision 2030 and Global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this podcast he talks about the challenges facing the youth in Kenya and how open source is helping achieve the organisations objetives.

In this episode we talk to George and Petra about ict@innovation a capacity building programme which supports small and medium ICT FOSS enterprises in Africa and aims to encourage the growth of African ICT industries based on FOSS. George and Petra work for Inwent, a non-profit organisation sponsored by the German Federal government, who have partnered with FOSSFA to deliver the capacity building exercise in Africa.

The programme conists of three pillars:

 

• Pillar A - Aims to grow the understanding of FOSS in Africa and develop African business models around FOSS,
• Pillar B - Aims to build skills and capacity in Linux administratration  and,
• Pillar C - Aims to build capacity and skills in developing software and applicaitons in Africa

Pillar Bs train-the-trainer programme is aimed at  certifying students in the  Linux Professional Institute Certificaiton so that they will be empowered to roll out training programmes in their own countries. Currently the training for East Africa is in progress. Programmes for Southern Africa, Central Africa and West Africa. Open Source advocates who are in keen to participtate in these programmes should look out for the call for participants on the FOSSFA and ICT@innovation web sites.

Mark & I chat about recent events in Open Source such as Oracle changing the landscape by launching its Android suit against Google, putting a price tag on Open Office (Star Office relabelled) Apple's move to deprecate Java.  I also discussed Enable Viacam. an open source program which allows disabled users to control the mouse by using head movements. Includes on screen keyboard as well.

Jobs on Java: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/22/jobs_on_java_for_mac/

Oracle Open Office Purchase: shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f

Mkahawa Cyber Manager: www.unwiretechnologies.net/index.php

Enable Viacam: http://eviacam.sourceforge.net/eviacam.php

iHub Nairobi: http://www.ihub.co.ke/pages/register.php

Apple's Launchpad? http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

 

In this podcast Mark talks to Evans Ikua, Linux Professional Association of Kenya Chair and owner of open source business consulting firm Lanet. In this intervew Evans tells us about:

• Linux adoption in Kenya,
• Challenges faced by open source service providers in Kenya and how the LPA helps and plans to address these,
• How Kenya's progressive telecoms policy, together with increase international bandwidth availability has lead to an explosion in internet penetration and cell phone development innovation in Kenya.

Episode 26 - Interview with Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za

In this episode we talk to Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za about the importance of internationalisation/localisation of applications, the challenges faced by developers and translators and why open source is uniquely positioned to allow users to adapt applications to their language.

Dwayne provides us with insights into the translation process, how best to go about translating an application and generally inspires with his passion for language.

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange we interview Karl Fischer from the Department of Science and Technology. We chat about the use of open source in government and upcoming Software Freedom Day 2010. 

Episode 24 -  Interview with Jon Gosier CEO Appfrica & TED Fellow

 

In this episode Darlene interviews TED fellow Jon Gosier about Swift River, Apps 4 Africa, Hive Colab. Great to chat with an innovator who is making a difference.

A further writeup and links can be found at http://opentechexchange.org 

Episode 23 - Ross Addiss Chats About Linux User Groups, Impi Linux and the Future of Linux

In this episode Mark interviews Ross Addiss from the Gauteng Linux User Group. We get some interesting insights into the Linux skill shortage in South Africa and Impi Linux 

Episode 22 -Crisis Commons, Dell, GMail and Other Opinions

In this episode Darlene and I chat about Crisis Commons, the dangers of cloud computing and the behaviour of corporates.

Episode 21 - Interview with ThePenguinTrail.org Organisers Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen

In this episode we chat to the woman behind the Penguin Trail initiative, a Cape-To-Cairo road trip to help promote open source in Africa.

In this episode we talk to Alastair Otter, founder and editor of Tectonic, the only ZA news site dedicated to issues relating to open source in South Africa and Africa. Alastair trained as a journalist and started Tectonic 5 years ago. A year ago the site went on hiatus and now its back for which the open source community is grateful.

In the interview we chat about the challenges facing open source in South Africa and Africa and what can be done to improve open source penetration in the continent.

Episode 19 - E-Waste in South America.

In this episode of open tech exchange Darlene interviews  Jhoanna Rosales about her new, first of its kind, e-waste initiative in Ecuador.  Based on Jhoannes back ground as an environmental engineer, she identified the pressing need for this type of business.  

Episode 18 - 16 March 2010

In this episode of OTE, Darlene and I discuss

• patents and the Free Software Foundation's Patent Absurdity video.
• the humble indie bundle experiment,
• challenges in open source deployments in Kenya,
• Ubuntu hate,
• the calamari project - Squid Log Analysis Application

Episode 17 - Sexism in Open Source

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange Darlene interviews Bruce Byfield abour sexism in open source. Bruce recently gave a presentation on sexism in open souce at COSSFEST 2010. 

Episode 16 - 21 March 2010 - Novell Developments, What Happened to our Rights?, Interview with Jacob Odame from One Village Foundation

 

Information is Power and Power Corrupts

• Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (RICA) - South Africa,
• Financial Intelligence Centre - SA Monitoring of your bank account 

 

One Village Foundation

 

• The One Village Foundation Non-Profit Organisation
• One village For-Profit Arm - to be launched 1 April 2010

In this episode recorded on the 14 March 2010 Darlene and Mark chat about the Novell sale, their experience using Ubuntu One and MS and Apple patents.

Episode 14 - Open Tech Exchange - Wii, Accessibility, GNome Shell and Javascript

 

In this episode we chat about game consoles and which one is best for a "light" game player.

• Wii,
• PS3

 

Darlene gives us some insight into accessibility in Gnome and Mark discusses his experience with Gnome Shell and whether Javascript will be the language that allows ordinary users to develop applications. Interesting javascript links

• gjs Gnome Javascript bindings,
• Project Phobos - Server Side Javascript

 

Sorry for the poor audio quality - the SAT3 cable connecting South Africa to the rest of the world has had some "issues".

Episode 13 - Crisis Camp Calgary, Windows 7 Impressions and NoSQL

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange, Darlene and I discuss

• the success of Crisis Camp Calgary http://www.crisiscommons.org/, 
• my impression of working with Windows 7 for 20 minutes,
• Is Canonical and Ubuntu moving to the right,
• And why NoSQL won't take over the world 

 

Episode 12 - 31 Jan 2010

In this, somewhat rambling episode, we discuss:

• mdadm woes with the SS4000e Nas,
• drupal module development and "mandatory" optional modules
  •  
    •  
      • CCK,
      • Views,
      • Drush,
      • Devel
• chromium - the google browser, now in Ubuntu repositories,
• crisis commons - Crisis Commons and the  planning of Crisis Camp Calgary, and
• apple ipad and the sun oracle deal.

11 Episode of Open Tech Exchange - 24 Jan 2010

In this episode of OTE  we chat about video cards and drivers in Linux, as well as video editing applications. We also briefly chat about the open source voip platform Mobicents.

Sites of interest for the video editing applications:

• Open Shot,
• Pitivi,
• Kino, and
• Lives

The home page for the mobicents project can be found at http://www.mobicents.org/

In this episode Mark briefly describes his experience installing Linux on an embedded device, the Intel NAS SS4000e, and Darlene shares her insights on the challenges for tech and floss in education.

In this podcast Darlene and Mark chat to Luis Lopez, an independent IT consultant, former Canonical sales engineer and prominent member of the Ubuntu Colombia about Ubuntu and FLOSS in Colombia

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange Darlene and Mark chat to Marc Lepage  Uganda Country Manager from the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD),  a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for development.

Our latest OTE podcast. In this podcast Darlene and I discuss things that have been happening and new things that we have learnt.

In episode 6 of the open tech exchange podcast Darlene and Mark talk to Fred Yeboah from the Kofi Annan Institute about FLOSS in Ghana

In the 5th episode of open tech exchange, Darlene and Mark talk to Teddy Nyambe form the Open Source Zambia Initiative (http://www.opensource.org.zm/). Teddy is driving the adoption of open source in Zambia by organising the open source community in Zambia and pushing the use of open source solutions in the Zambian parliament.

In this episode Darlene Parker and Mark Clarke discuss the activity in the browser space and the mobile or cell phone market.

,In this episode Darlene and I discuss a range of topics from the take-down notice we received, to MS's kernel contribution and a brief discussion about open sources CMS systems, although this topic deserves its own podcast.

Open Source migration strategies for business

In this episode of OTE Mark and Darlene discuss the implications of Googles Chrome OS. For more information and show notes please visit http://www.opentechexchange.org.

We discuss green computing, the push to make computers more energy efficient.

In this episode Darlene Parker and I discuss Asterisk the open source VOIP/IP-PBX which is disrupting the proprietary PBX market.

In this podcast I discuss setup and use of Logical Volumes and the Logical Volume Manager as well as software RAID on Linux

In this episode I discuss open source firewall distributions. This episode was contributed to Hacker Public Radio on 10 March 2009

In this our first Open Tech Exchange podcast, I discuss my opinion  on the Mono/C# controversy and why Java is a better idea for Linux and FOSS software development and Darlene discusses FOSS applications for education