Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 22 September, 2010 - 06:38
Last time I wrote about laying the foundations for the new Kabissa - today I'd like to tell you about some of the building blocks we are using to create the new structure.
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 20 September, 2010 - 12:01
Despite the increasing relevance of social media tools like blogs, twitter, facebook, etc, the best place to connect with people remains their email inbox. Especially in Africa, email mailing lists such as Pambazuka News, WOUGNET-L, and African Democracy Forum remain essential online platforms enabling civil society activists and practitioners to connect, inform and support one another on a daily basis. We helped start all three of those lists back when Kabissa provided traditional domain hosting services, but have since moved on to promoting social media. Now to go forward while going back: let's revisit mailing lists.
Submitted by Max on 3 September, 2010 - 19:06
"The amount of insight and perspective I've received from this forum is both immeasurable and invaluable. I cant think of any other way I would have obtained such information on international practice without leaving the country and spending thousands of hard earned dollars (taxpayers or mine)." (Tepora Afamasaga from Samoa in a contribution to the e-Forum in January 2009)
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 3 December, 2009 - 11:14
I was pleased to receive the announcement below regarding the release of the latest version of Dada Mail, a powerful listserv tool. It's free software that is fairly easy to install on a traditional server supporting the Perl programming language, and very easy to use once installed. I've always been a big fan, not least "Since Justin is an Artist, he has decided that Dada Mail is an Art Object." Check out the Dadamail Manifesto for more details about what Dada Mail can do and how it can be viewed as an art object.
We always resisted implementing Dada Mail for Kabissa because we wanted to create an integrated community platform, which we were able to do with Drupal. This doesn't mean it can't be a perfect email companion to your website.
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 15 May, 2008 - 00:49
Below is an excerpt from an email I sent to the FOSSFA discussion list in January 2006, which I encountered today during a Google search for something else altogether. The message contains some insights that I think we should return to now that we have launched the Kabissa Online Community Website - key words being TRAINING, USABILITY and EMAIL.
