August Meetup: Call for speakers

[paul mayero]

Hello good people,

Its almost the first Saturday of a new month again. Is there anyone interested in presenting anything they have built, learnt or think is interesting with regards to Free, Libre and Open-Source Software?

Thanks, 
Paul

[Benson Muite]

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

Jambo,

Last meetup we had a Koha[0] user and administrator, it would be great to
learn more about this. I can check on having the meetup at a library,
for example Maktaba Kuu, KNLS Buruburu or Kibera community library.
Many of these have an entrance fee of about 30/= per day.

Uraia trust[1] have a machine readable copy of the Kenyan constitution
in Kiswahili. Have an xml version[2], maybe there would be interest in
using a machine learning model on it? A fully open model is available
from Swiss AI[3]. Can check if there is a library willing to host a meeting
if there is interest.

There were interesting presentations on mapping backbone fibre,
community networks at the Gaia Session of IETF 126[4]. One of the
participants[5] noted that many people use old computers with Windows 7 or
Windows 10, but could use GNU/Linux. Maybe it is worth meeting at a
school or teacher training institution to demonstrate some free software.
Maybe MKU might be interested in trying some free software, would be
happy to introduce Inkscape if they could install it in one of the
computer labs, but one can also boot GNU/Linux from a flash drive. Many
universities often have a GNU/Linux lab for students to use - at least
for computer forensics using Kali GNU/Linux or similar. GNU/Linux for
students outside computer science, for example in multimedia is rare.


> Thanks,
> Paul

Benson

0) https://koha-community.org/
1) https://uraia.or.ke/
2) https://codeberg.org/bkmgit/Katiba-Kenya-2010
3) https://www.apertus-ai.org/
4) https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/agenda?show=gaia#agenda-day-2026-07-23
5) https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-126-gaia
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