SA Blogger going to Google SoC
April 12, 2007
South African technologist and blogger Charl van Niekerk just posted that his Joomla-related entry to Google Summer of Code has been accepted. Here you can see the project he will be working on. Having South Africans working at the bleeding edge of innovation backed by resources as large as Google’s is fantastic. I am interested to explore how many other Africans are involved.
If you know of others let me know.
Searching for a Web 2.0 community in South Africa
April 7, 2007
It was only two weeks ago that I managed to have my first face-to-face conversation with a South African who knew what web 2.0 was. In fact we even had some common vision about how it could impact South Africa. It felt wonderful and real sitting at Greens eating fishcakes and speculating about Web 2.0 Enterprise in Southern Africa. Granted, he had just spent a number of years in Europe, but still.
Since then I have been taking yet another look at the market and players in the space, and am pleasantly surprised to see that there is some movement and presence. Watch this space to hear more.
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