OpenDay with Audacity

This has been a quiet open day with just a few people browsing and spending time downloading software & bruning Linux CDs with the toaster.

We also went to see how our NgomaVuma artists perform at the shopping mall.

Once back in the cafe - we spent time jamming to swahili songs and experimented with Audacity.

Open downloads blog

We have decided to start a blog and introduce the sites that we use daily to download open content materials from.

We call it our Open downloads blog and you can find it here.

Since we download content regularly - by now the OpenCafe has gathered a lot of great open content works from the Internet - included in our download collection you will find music, books, training materials, radio shows, TV programs. We also have printed copies of a few of them.

Our Freedom Toaster has the Gutenberg CD as well - and hopefully soon the toaster will have other great material as well.

If you are not sure how to upload your materials to these online databases - contact us for more info - or if you have found an interesting open content work on the NET and would like to share it with us - send us a mail.

OpenCafe Presentation

We have prepared a detailed presentation in preparation for the Open Source Impact conference (19-21 April, Sandton Hilton Hotel).

If interested in a detailed description of all OpenCafe tools, concepts, projects and events we build our initiative on - click here to visit the OpenCafe site to download the PDF version.

Exciting project for ArtMarketOnline

Great news for our art project, ArtMarketOnline.

Local percussion group, Ngoma Vuma Afrika is joining the team - to learn computer skills and web design skills.

Click here to read more.