March Meetup?

[Benson Muite]

Is there interest in a March meetup? Either in person or online.

Benson

[Cornelius]

Hi Benson, 

Yes, we do have a plan to meet on 7th. Paul was checking on options to see if it's possible to have another place for meet up. I hope he can reply today for more info.

Best, 
Cornelius

[Benson Muite]

Are there any preferences from people who would
like to attend? Starting a bit earlier would be better for me.

Are there technical things people want to try out or demonstrate?

An interesting Linux use case:
https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/

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[paul mayero]

Hi Fellow Nairobi LUGers!

Yes, we are meeting on the 7th of March at Marble Arch Hotel on Lagos Rd, Off Tom Mboya Street  from 3 to 6 pm.

The Agenda will be as follows:

- Introduction - 30 minutes

- How to learn and contribute to Opensource Projects: Contributing to Mozilla by Cornelius Emase - 45 minutes

- Self-hosting series: How to host your website on an android phone by Paul Mayero - 45 minutes

- Technical topic from the audience - 30 minutes

- Tea and Networking - 30 minutes

See you there!

Thank you Cornelius for making these amazing posters! 

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[Benson Muite]

Is there a cost or expected price? Nairobi LUG has generally tried to be economical.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2026, at 9:05 PM, paul mayero wrote:
> Hi Fellow Nairobi LUGers!
>

> Yes, we are meeting on the 7th of March at Marble Arch Hotel on *Lagos Rd,
> Off Tom Mboya Street* from 3 to 6 pm.

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[Munyoki Kilyungi]

"Benson Muite" <benson...@emailplus.org>
aliandika:

> Are there any preferences from people who would
> like to attend? Starting a bit earlier would be better for me.
>
> Are there technical things people want to try out or demonstrate?
>
> An interesting Linux use case:
> https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/
>

This is very cool. Sounds similar (?) in principle
to what tunapanda institute⁰ do. Maybe one of
these days you guys can go check them out?

⁰ https://www.apc.org/en/users/tunapanda-institute

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[Munyoki Kilyungi]

paul mayero <pmma...@gmail.com> aliandika:

> Hi Fellow Nairobi LUGers!
>

> Yes, we are meeting on the 7th of March at Marble Arch Hotel on *Lagos Rd,

> Off Tom Mboya Street* from 3 to 6 pm.
>

Doubt I can make it, because work/life and
location :(

> The Agenda will be as follows:
> - Introduction - 30 minutes
> - How to learn and contribute to Opensource Projects: Contributing to
> Mozilla by Cornelius Emase - 45 minutes

Here's a link - related to contributing to FOSS -
from the FSF newsletter that is worth viewing:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[...]
In this presentation on a practical use of software freedom, GNU/Linux
sysadmin Romeo S. explores how to delve into a codebase written in a
language that you have never used to make the changes that you want.
From the very basic installation of software to becoming familiar with
the codebase and its language, Romeo takes viewers all the way through
making changes to a program. For those that missed the original talk
at LibrePlanet 2024 (or want to rewatch it), you can now view the
recording of this informative lecture on MediaGoblin.

* <https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-praxis-removing-limitations/>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> - Self-hosting series: How to host your website on an android phone by Paul
> Mayero - 45 minutes

I'm curious. With termux, you essentially can do
this, and much more. So with self-hosting, do you
view locally on the local network? Or is the goal
to expose the website to the internet, assuming
you don't have a VPS (which allows SSH remote
port-forwarding). Regardless. No spoilers! But
after the meeting, this seems to me like a good
blog article.

> - Technical topic from the audience - 30 minutes

Can't make it for this month's meet-up. But in
more positive news, I joined the GNU guile
(besides Emacs and Python) teams for upstream
guix:

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6827#issuecomment-11142983

There's a GCD in place (still in it's discussion
phase) that talks about how guix teams work:

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/11/files

Eventually, that's something I'd like to one day
talk about :)

> - Tea and Networking - 30 minutes
>
> See you there!
>
> Thank you Cornelius for making these amazing posters!

+1 @Cornelius 👍

[D M]

I am interested in a meetup. I have seen the posters. 

On Tue, 3 Mar 2026, 11:37 Benson Muite, <benson...@emailplus.org> wrote:

Is there interest in a March meetup? Either in person or online.

Benson

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[paul mayero]

>  Is there a cost or expected price? Nairobi LUG has generally tried to be economical.

No cost is expected. @Benson Muite . Your presence is the gift!

> I am interested in a meetup. I have seen the posters. 

@deka...@gmail.com Definitely come. 

> Doubt I can make it, because work/life and
location :(

Ooh No Bonface! That's  terrible. No worries. It is very understandable. Looking forward to seeing you in April.

> Can't make it for this month's meet-up.  But in
> more positive news, I joined the GNU guile
> (besides Emacs and Python) teams for upstream
> guix:

   > https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6827#issuecomment-11142983

Congratulations @bonface...@gmail.com ! 

> There's a GCD in place (still in it's discussion
> phase) that talks about how guix teams work:

   > https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/11/files

> Eventually, that's something I'd like to one day
> talk about :)

That sounds like a great topic @bonface...@gmail.com ! We can definitely organize an online meetup in the course of the month for you to talk about it.

Would you be up for it?

> I'm curious.  With termux, you essentially can do
> this, and much more.  So with self-hosting, do you
> view locally on the local network?  Or is the goal
> to expose the website to the internet, assuming
> you don't have a VPS (which allows SSH remote
> port-forwarding).  Regardless.  No spoilers!  But
> after the meeting, this seems to me like a good
> blog article.

Definitely. No spoilers, come and see how it is done. You can definitely wait for the blog post.

> In this presentation on a practical use of software freedom, GNU/Linux
> sysadmin Romeo S. explores how to delve into a codebase written in a
> language that you have never used to make the changes that you want.
> From the very basic installation of software to becoming familiar with
> the codebase and its language, Romeo takes viewers all the way through
> making changes to a program. For those that missed the original talk
> at LibrePlanet 2024 (or want to rewatch it), you can now view the
> recording of this informative lecture on MediaGoblin.

 >*  <https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-praxis-removing-limitations/>

This is very informative! Thanks for this link.

We are planning to have such sessions to enable people to contribute to other FLOSS projects and @Cornelius is the first one. No one should miss it.

> This is very cool.  Sounds similar (?) in principle
> to what tunapanda institute⁰ do.  Maybe one of
> these days you guys can go check them out?

> ⁰ https://www.apc.org/en/users/tunapanda-institute

This is cool. I didn't know that Tunapanda got featured on APC's list. We'll reach out to them ASAP. What do you think? @Cornelius and @Benson Muite ?

> Are there any preferences from people who would
> like to attend?  Starting a bit earlier would be better for me.

@Benson We plan on starting at 3. 

> Are there technical things people want to try out or demonstrate?

If anyone is interested in sharing something technical, we can definitely organize lightning talks.
If there won't be enough time, we can hold online meetings for them to get their stuff out.

> An interesting Linux use case:
> https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/ 

This is very interesting. I think we should definitely compile a list of such institutes and organizations to visit and have chats with.

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[Benson Muite]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, at 9:19 PM, paul mayero wrote:
>> Is there a cost or expected price? Nairobi LUG has generally tried to be
> economical.
>

> No cost is expected. @Benson Muite <benson...@emailplus.org> . Your
> presence is the gift!
>

For long term sustainable community driven projects, one needs transparency about
the funding model for venue and refreshments if any. See:

https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/master/content/funding-the-nairobi-gnu-linux-users-group.md

>> I am interested in a meetup. I have seen the posters.
>
> @deka...@gmail.com Definitely come.
>
>> Doubt I can make it, because work/life and
> location :(
>
> Ooh No Bonface! That's terrible. No worries. It is very understandable.
> Looking forward to seeing you in April.
>
>> Can't make it for this month's meet-up. But in
>> more positive news, I joined the GNU guile
>> (besides Emacs and Python) teams for upstream
>> guix:
>
> > https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6827#issuecomment-11142983
>

> Congratulations @bonface...@gmail.com <bonface...@gmail.com> !

>
>> There's a GCD in place (still in it's discussion
>> phase) that talks about how guix teams work:
>
> > https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/11/files
>
>> Eventually, that's something I'd like to one day
>> talk about :)
>
> That sounds like a great topic @bonface...@gmail.com

> <bonface...@gmail.com> ! We can definitely organize an online meetup in

> the course of the month for you to talk about it.
> Would you be up for it?
>
>
>> I'm curious. With termux, you essentially can do
>> this, and much more. So with self-hosting, do you
>> view locally on the local network? Or is the goal
>> to expose the website to the internet, assuming
>> you don't have a VPS (which allows SSH remote
>> port-forwarding). Regardless. No spoilers! But
>> after the meeting, this seems to me like a good
>> blog article.
>
> Definitely. No spoilers, come and see how it is done. You can definitely
> wait for the blog post.
>
>
>> In this presentation on a practical use of software freedom, GNU/Linux
>> sysadmin Romeo S. explores how to delve into a codebase written in a
>> language that you have never used to make the changes that you want.
>> From the very basic installation of software to becoming familiar with
>> the codebase and its language, Romeo takes viewers all the way through
>> making changes to a program. For those that missed the original talk
>> at LibrePlanet 2024 (or want to rewatch it), you can now view the
>> recording of this informative lecture on MediaGoblin.
>
> >* <
> https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-praxis-removing-limitations/
>>
>
> This is very informative! Thanks for this link.
>
> We are planning to have such sessions to enable people to contribute to

> other FLOSS projects and @Cornelius <corneliu...@gmail.com> is the

> first one. No one should miss it.
>
>
>
>> This is very cool. Sounds similar (?) in principle
>> to what tunapanda institute⁰ do. Maybe one of
>> these days you guys can go check them out?
>
>> ⁰ https://www.apc.org/en/users/tunapanda-institute
>
> This is cool. I didn't know that Tunapanda got featured on APC's list.
> We'll reach out to them ASAP. What do you think? @Cornelius

> <corneliu...@gmail.com> and @Benson Muite <benson...@emailplus.org>

> ?
>
>> Are there any preferences from people who would
>> like to attend? Starting a bit earlier would be better for me.
>
> @Benson We plan on starting at 3.
>
>> Are there technical things people want to try out or demonstrate?
>
>
> If anyone is interested in sharing something technical, we can definitely
> organize lightning talks.
> If there won't be enough time, we can hold online meetings for them to get
> their stuff out.
>

It can be helpful to have a call for presentations.

>
>
>> An interesting Linux use case:
>> https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/
> <https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/>
>
> This is very interesting. I think we should definitely compile a list of
> such institutes and organizations to visit and have chats with.
>

> <https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/>

Given these will likely be where many local FOSS contributions come from, it would
be good to get more such people involved.

https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries

[paul mayero]

> For long term sustainable community driven projects, one needs transparency about
> the funding model for venue and refreshments if any. See:

> https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/master/content/funding-the-nairobi-gnu-linux-users-group.md 

> https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries  

That's very true. Thanks for linking to that post. Thanks for bringing up the topic of sustainability.
It is true that sustainability is important.

To engage with more and better stakeholders we do need to show that we are professional.

Can we talk about it on the 7th then we can update everyone about it?

> Given these will likely be where many local FOSS contributions come from, it would
> be good to get more such people involved.

@Benson Muite would you be willing to lead this?

[Antsy Lehn]

Hi everyone, new NairobiLUG member here.

Interested in the March meetup, though kindly clarify on costs (again) ... (eg. entry)

Thank you.

[Cornelius]

Hi, karibu sana. Entry is free. It would be great to see you!

[Munyoki Kilyungi]

"Benson Muite" <benson...@emailplus.org>
aliandika:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, at 9:19 PM, paul mayero wrote:
>>> Is there a cost or expected price? Nairobi LUG has generally tried to be
>> economical.
>>
>> No cost is expected. @Benson Muite <benson...@emailplus.org> . Your
>> presence is the gift!
>>
>
> For long term sustainable community driven projects, one needs transparency about
> the funding model for venue and refreshments if any. See:
>
> https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/master/content/funding-the-nairobi-gnu-linux-users-group.md
>

In terms of transparency, I like how GNU Guix run things:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/donate/

And they completed one of their funding drives:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/result-of-sustain-and-strengthen-fundraising/

For now, once I crack the 2FA with the NairobiLUG
gmail account, steps I can think of:

- Agree on a admin of said gmail account. Clarity
who want to take up the role of admin'ing things
after community consensus; not as some badge of
honor vibes, but as a badge of
responsibility/ownership.

- Open a libera account. Maybe m-pesa/bank. With
the latter, I don't know how that would work.

- Track everything in a public (h)ledger account
or something similar that's FOSS. Should people
want their names private, use anonymous
identities. Do regular a/c stuff in a repo.
Commits can track contribs, for free. Just
enforce commit style.

- For funding drives, communicate progress in form
of a blog post like demo'd above.

- For money usage, agree on what we want and how
to spend that money. And with money usage, blog
about it.

Now all this stuff could be made easier if their
is a proved FOSS non-profit Kenyan org. Does one
exist?

[...]

>>> Are there technical things people want to try out or demonstrate?
>>
>>
>> If anyone is interested in sharing something technical, we can definitely
>> organize lightning talks.
>> If there won't be enough time, we can hold online meetings for them to get
>> their stuff out.
>>
>
> It can be helpful to have a call for presentations.
>

Abit too soon since the hang-out is this weekend.
But we can try. Maybe in future, if presentations
is something we can get people to do, perhaps
agree to have a 2 week window for making these
CfPs?

>>
>>
>>> An interesting Linux use case:
>>> https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/
>> <https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/>
>>
>> This is very interesting. I think we should definitely compile a list of
>> such institutes and organizations to visit and have chats with.
>>
>> <https://kenyakidscan.org/computer-centers/>
>
> Given these will likely be where many local FOSS contributions come from, it would
> be good to get more such people involved.
>
> https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries
>

Arf, the now too common situation:
« We cannot do anything, but we cannot do nothing. »

[Munyoki Kilyungi]

Antsy Lehn <ants...@gmail.com> aliandika:

> Hi everyone, new NairobiLUG member here.
>
> Interested in the March meetup, though kindly clarify on costs (again) ...
> (eg. entry)

From what I grok, general idea is that folk will
be hanging out at some cafe/joint - at one point
that's what we used to do waaaay back. And just
nerd about everything tech.

[paul mayero]

> From what I grok, general idea is that  

> folk will

> be hanging out at some cafe/joint - at 

> one point

> that's what we used to do waaaay 

> back. And just

> nerd about everything tech

That's true. The real question is, will you be there this Saturday?

@Antsy Lehn?

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[Antsy Lehn]

Yes I'll be attending, looking forward to it

[Benson Muite]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, at 9:54 PM, paul mayero wrote:
>> For long term sustainable community driven projects, one needs
> transparency about
>> the funding model for venue and refreshments if any. See:
>
>>
> https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/master/content/funding-the-nairobi-gnu-linux-users-group.md

> <https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/blob/master/content/funding-the-nairobi-gnu-linux-users-group.md>
>
>>
> https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries

> <https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries>
>
>
> That's very true. Thanks for linking to that post. Thanks for bringing up
> the topic of sustainability.
> It is true that sustainability is important.
>
> To engage with more and better stakeholders we do need to show that we are
> professional.
>
> Can we talk about it on the 7th then we can update everyone about it?

Not sure all stakeholders will be there, such as Munyoki. In person discussions
are good, but for inclusivity, not the best for decisions.

>
>> Given these will likely be where many local FOSS contributions come from,
> it would
>> be good to get more such people involved.
>

> @Benson Muite <benson...@emailplus.org> would you be willing to lead
> this?

Not sure if we need a leader. Maybe we could add a page to the website with
a list of places where people use FOSS operating systems? Identifying places
where we could introduce FOSS or contributing to FOSS and then having a meeting
there is helpful.

Had previously registered the domain lug.or.ke with the idea that other places
could use a sub domain, e.g. nairobi.lug.or.ke, utawala.lug.or.ke etc.

[Evans Ikua]

Good Morning good people.

I will be happy to attend this as my first meeting at NaiLUG. Given a chance I can speak briefly about the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project that is being implemented by ITU and the National OSPO that we are helping the Ministry of ICT to implement (and opportunities for participation).

Best regards and I hope that I will make it.

Evans

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[paul mayero]

> Good Morning good people.

> I will be happy to attend this as my first meeting at NaiLUG. Given a chance I can speak briefly about the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project that is being implemented by ITU and the National OSPO that we are helping the Ministry of ICT to > implement (and opportunities for participation).

> Best regards and I hope that I will make it.

> Evans

You are most welcome Evans!

We hope to see you tomorrow :)

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[paul mayero]

> Not sure all stakeholders will be there, such as Munyoki.  In person discussions
> are good, but for inclusivity, not the best for decisions.

That's true. I think we should do it on a separate thread to ensure everyone can follow the conversation easily.

> Not sure if we need a leader.  Maybe we could add a page to the website with
> a list of places where people use FOSS operating systems?  Identifying places
> where we could introduce FOSS or contributing to FOSS and then having a meeting
> there is helpful.

This is a great idea. I'll have opened an issue on Github already, here it is: https://github.com/nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke/issues/221

> Had previously registered the domain lug.or.ke with the idea that other places
> could use a sub domain, e.g. nairobi.lug.or.ke, utawala.lug.or.ke etc.

+1 . It can also work with the current domain. The subdomains won't be as cool as when having lug.or.ke only :) 

[Munyoki Kilyungi]

Evans Ikua <ikua....@gmail.com> aliandika:

> Good Morning good people.
> I will be happy to attend this as my first meeting at NaiLUG. Given a
> chance I can speak briefly about the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project
> that is being implemented by ITU and the National OSPO that we are helping
> the Ministry of ICT to implement (and opportunities for participation).
>

This sounds cool. Could you say more about it?
Feel free to put it in writing if you want to.
That would make for a very interesting LUG blog,
yeah?

Is this project, and all how it's done in the
public domain?

[Evans Ikua]

Sounds good! I'll do a small blog and share here as well.

Kind Regards,
Evans Ikua,
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[D M]

I'm there. Where exactly are people?

On Tue, 3 Mar 2026, 11:37 Benson Muite, <benson...@emailplus.org> wrote:

Is there interest in a March meetup? Either in person or online.

Benson

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