{"id":267,"date":"2005-01-28T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=267"},"modified":"2005-01-28T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T16:20:16","slug":"asia-source-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/28\/asia-source-1","title":{"rendered":"Asia Source #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the proper start of the event. At 7.30am, Gunner started playing his guitar for the morning wake up call. Showering today was a new experience &#8211; since we stay in dorm-styled areas, the toilets are sort of &#8220;public&#8221; or shared. Water was cold! Breakfast, then some ice breaker sessions which brought up some mighty interesting topics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NGOs are misguided ICT shoppers. They just decide when they get funding to go and become wired, and they don&#8217;t know their requirements and they just generally get whatever is pushed to them at the computer stores. This includes horrible operating systems.<\/li>\n<li>NGOs should try to learn from each other as they face similar situations usually; but they never do this practically as they prefer to just go it their own way.<\/li>\n<li>NGOs don&#8217;t like to pay for anything &#8211; they&#8217;d rather have everything for free, even if they were receiving funding. This isn&#8217;t a base case, but it happens often enough.<\/li>\n<li>In Uganda, any telecenters for ICT that are setup need the buy-in from men. Otherwise, the women can&#8217;t visit these public Internet access points, since their husbands think they&#8217;re going to go find other men!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Migration &#038; Adoption track started today, and we got to meet the participants for the first time; lots of interesting questions, with lots of varying technical levels. Some haven&#8217;t even used a FLOSS app while in Windows, while some are well setup and are in-between migrations, keeping logs and so on. 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