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SANGONeT launches new PRODDER directory of Southern African NGOs using Drupal and CiviCRM
Donald Lobo from CiviCRM directed me today to a new version of the very handy Prodder Directory of Southern African NGOs, which SANGONeT launched yesterday at http://beta.prodder.org.za.
This is exciting news for me since we at Kabissa also are using Drupal and CiviCRM as the backbone of our own online community website for African civil society. I like the look and feel of the new Prodder site and am pleased that CiviCRM is finding broader use in Africa.
Browsing the site, I was also intrigued to see that a print version of the Prodder Directory is available. What a terrific resource! I have floated tihs idea in the past for Kabissa: wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to offer a print edition of the Kabissa Member Directory, on an annual basis and also in custom print runs for specific purposes - eg in support of national, regional or sectoral networks, or to distribute at conferences.
SANGONeT official press release follows.
Report back on the African Conference on Free and Open Source Software and Digital Commons
The conference took place in Dakar between the 16th and 20th March and was organised by IDLELO.
Some of the main events were:
The Digital Doorway project made use of FOSS and Open Content
IDLELO3: InWent launches multiyear open source training program in Africa
We are beginning to see a trickle of press releases, photos and outcomes from the IDLELO 3 conference taking place this week in Dakar (program in ODT format). I was encouraged by this big training program on open source software announced by the German InWent capacity building organization. I've been seeing alot of interesting InWent activities in Africa recently including with the One Laptop Per Child program.
Understanding Drupal
Many people ask us all the time about Drupal, the platform used to develop Kabissa 2.0.
Our friends at Lullabot have announced The Lullabot Learning Series available on DVD. I have not yet seen the DVD but the short trailer video on their website is very useful in explaining quickly some of the most important benefits of Drupal.
Open Source Software
Free Software and Open Source tools you can download or use online to help with information graphics.
OpenOffice is an office productivity suite. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and drawing program. OpenOffice also works with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office and open formats such as .odt. OpenOffice runs on Linux and Windows and on Mac OS X under X11.
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3rd African Conference on Free and Open Source Software and Digital Commons
From the website at http://www.idlelo.org
OpenOffice.org: The Free and Open Source Office Suite
OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite with the same (and in some ways more) functionality as most of MS Office. Open office includes a wordprocessor, spreadsheet and presentation package all of which will read and write MS Office file formats, and has a native file format that is an open standard. This protects data integrity and access forever. Learn about how you can use OpenOffice.org today in your organization.












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