Getting ready for the SAOUG workshop

All is set for our second workshop on the 6th of August, but it was not an easy task. Getting cellphone companies to come and do a demonstration for us was a nightmare, I felt totally ignored because none of them bothered to respond, another one asked a series of questions transferred me from one person to another yet I dint get help. Martie managed to get Samsung to do a demonstration for us. Soon after that our luck changed, it turned out that we have another group within the CSIR that doing research on mobile technologies with a few demo phones in their lab - now we have them on board too.

We are more excited about the coming workshop because now we have more people presenting meaning less to do as it is a bigger group work. We will be presenting as iBala Consortium, more information about the CoP is available on the wiki

CoP and another workshop

After all the hard work, we are happy to announce that the group is bigger and doing bigger things. We busy preparing to facilitate another workshop on the 6th of August at the 10th Southern African Online Information Meeting on the same day we will be launching the community of practice.