Cross Roads

Proposal on the establishment of Work Spaces Introduction Walk casually into any cafe in Kampala or most our our cities for that matter, and the chances are, the conversations you hear will be about business or politics. At the center of many of this meetings, a well prepared meal often serves to calm the nerves to release the openness necessary for trade to take place. Look around these places and you will find someone fidgeting with a mobile device or urgently typing away on a notebook computer. Put all these things together and you have a recipe for a good business idea. The Idea The presence of wireless hotspots is not new nor is the idea of allowing guests access to the facilities for brief meetings. What we suggest is the creation of strategic business spaces in every cafe or restaurant to make business more accessible. As the name suggest and the three images, the spaces would merge already existing ideas to help put in place an idea that is r...

This is the Second Mozilla Uganda Community event that i was able to attend. This time around the event was held at Hivecolab on Kanjokya Rd. to highlight Firefox flicks competition (created to focus on the Firefox Operating System). We watched some of the submissions from the community in Uganda  as well as others from all over the world. It seems to me that the entrants made the use of three options. Animation, the use of Actors or a Combination of all two. The ones that crabbed my attention and that seemed to have captured the crowd were entries with which made good use of humor. I learnt that the system runs on CSS2, HTML 5 and Java Script. Was also glad to meet a team that has done some work before on the localization of the Firefox Browser. Maybe the lesson that i have come away with is the value that must be placed on user communities. These are groups that run on passion for software alone and that are often un-defiled by standard practice. Software juggernaut...