OSSSA is born
Today (Monday, October 6, 2014) is the start of Open Source Software for South Africa, or OSSSA for short, a group campaigning for the increased uptake of open source software in South Africa. Please...
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German town of Gummersbach migrates to Linux
The German town of Gummersbach (population 50000+) reported that this summer they successfully migrated all 300 of their PCs to Linux and LibreOffice, away from the unnamed proprietary operating system...
View ArticleOSSSA discussion forums online
I’ve just installed the bbPress WordPress plugin. This means we now have public discussion forums that can be reached by clicking on the “Forums” item in the menu up above. To post on the forum, you...
View ArticleThe OSSSA Master Plan (2014-10-08 version)
The initial response to this effort has been super encouraging, thank you very much all for subscribing, following and for advertising! In this short post, I wanted to sketch out our concrete plans for...
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Welcome TechCentral readers!
Dear TechCentral readers, welcome to Open Source Software for South Africa! Regardt van der Berg has written a great summary of OSSSA and its goals over at TechCentral: New platform for open source in...
View ArticleCall for Information: Do you or does your organization work with open source...
Summary: OSSSA (Open Source Software for South Africa) seeks to become the authoritative portal for all Free Software/Open Source Software (OSS) activity in South Africa. If you provide OSS-related...
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Cape Town Open Data Portal now live! Unfortunately with Microsoft file...
The Cape Town Open Data Portal is now live. There are currently already 29 datasets online, ranging from the approved budgets for the past two years to the locations of district and community parks....
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