Asia Source #2
Yet another amazing day. Migration track actually got folk installing Linux on their desktops and then a Q&A session, with a user migration case study happened. Besides flaky hardware, the Linux installation process has been given a thumbs up. Later on, there was a good breakout session on how to use the Internet and mobile phones for gathering activitism, which was highly interesting (and gave me some ideas for mail marketing and signup forms).
Jeff Ooi showed up to talk about how he does grassroots stuff using the Internet, and gave us interesting knowledge about his portal usj.com.my for folks in the USJ area. Our first time meeting too; I stumbled upon Jac who’s a women’s rights person and it looks like there might be some collaboration for Net-based women’s empowering using FLOSS. A play happened, from a group called Rafiki – it was about opression in South Africa. 2-man show, I really enjoyed it.
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