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[chox] Fwd: Liboke ya Congo presented at Fikin in Kinshasa

für die die wissen wollen was mit den Afrika-Projekten weitergeht:

Die RULE website ist auch sehr interessant

Franz

----- Original Message -----

		Freitag, 23. Juli 2004 09:27:44 Uhr
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From:		"Ingo Lantschner" <ingo.lists vum.at>
Subject:	Liboke ya Congo presented at Fikin in Kinshasa
To:		Franz Nahrada


These days Bino na Biso (BnB) presents the RULE-based "Liboke ya Congo"
(LyC) on Fikin, the most important trade show in Kinshasa/DRC. "Liboke ya
Congo" translates to something like "Box of Congo". This system is a Red
Hat 9 based operating system, installed using "Slinky" from The
RULE-Project, and therefore running on even outdated PCs with todays speed
and the most up to date applications like Abiword 2, OpenOffice 1.1, the
latest Acrobat Reader or Webbrowsers like Opera 7.5 and Firefox. "Liboke
ya Congo" includes a set of Lingala-localized applications. Most of the
work of translation and research has been done by BnB-staff in Kinshasa.

The "Liboke ya Congo" will help to bring IT-knowledge and better means of
communication to many people in DRC and its neighbour-countries. Also it
can be seen as an important step in building up a self-sustainable,
localized IT-culture.

Contactperson Kinshasa: Leon LUEMBA, libokeyacongo yahoo.fr
Contactperson Vienna: Ingo LANTSCHNER, ingo vum.at


Further Information:
--------------------

Screen-"shot" of the first LyC:
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/img/Photo_Leon_012.jpg

This text:
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/lyc.html

Bino na Biso, the Lingala expression for "You and We" is an intercultural,
humanist cooperative based in Kinshasa/DRC. See also
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/index.html

Lingala (ISO-code ln) is a language spoken alongside the Congoriver. It
derives from Bobangi and has in-cooperated parts from Kikongo, Swaheli and
French. Today it is getting more an more important because of the many
famous musicians from Kongo.

DRC is the abbreviation for "Democratic Republic of Congo", the former
"Zaire"; ISO-code CD

The RULE-Project, an open source-initiative on functional recycling of
PC-hardware;
see also http://www.rule-project.org



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