Back to Saturday – day 2.5 in fact. Mustapha and I had the chance to present about KDE’s community, the project in general and ended with some demonstration of the Plasma Desktop and KDE applications. Next to some of the "basics", such as Dolphin, Konqueror and Gwenview I presented and application that I just learned to appreciate the day before. Blogilo is a great help in creating blog posts. Especially when your Internet connection is slow and shaky and the electricity can be cut off at any time. These blog posts would not have been possible without writing them offline and later making a few attempts at publishing them.
The afternoon of day two concluded with a talk about localization (by a local speaker), which started for Hausa at last year’s conference (hopefully there is more uptake of it now again).
Adriaan explained about virtualization and demonstrated the installation of Kubuntu in a virtual machine. I presented KDE Education and showed some of our program gems.
Finally day three, the final day of the conference (Sunday) was again a great day. I especially appreciated that we had even more local speakers that had the courage to step up and show how they use free software. Again the range of topics was very broad.
Mr. Tata presented GNOME very enthusiastically. Another topic by Sadeeq Gambo that was well received was how to make money with free software.
Ibrahim Dasuma from Hutsoft Nigeria Ltd presented their work with data bases and web content management systems.
Abubakar Sadeeq presented blender to the audience’s delight. This was of course a very shiny presentation, including life modeling of the microphone stand during the talk.
One topic that I found great was the announcement of the beginning of a local Python user group: PyKano will hopefully have regular meetings to foster the exchange of knowledge about this nice programming language amongst people in Kano.
Adriaan and I could almost lean back this, but we still had to work our way through a lot of questions that came up earlier. Some people needed help with specific problems, so we also tried to help by troubleshooting some notebooks.
At the end of the conference we took some more photos and Adriaan was declared the "Warrior of FOSS Nigeria". I’m the "Champion of FOSS Nigeria" now 🙂 It was great and as a special honor we receive traditional Fulani dresses.
Monday we spent in a conference is over coma state. Now we will have just a bit more time to go for sightseeing.
Update: I added the link to PyKano user group, so we hope people will find it now!