View source for Event:Maker Faire Africa

http://makerfaireafrica.com/ 

When: August 14-16, 2009 (note: l10n work week takes place Aug 3 - 7 in Berlin) 

Description: "Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. This event is free to the general public." 

Facility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana-India_Kofi_Annan_Centre_for_Excellence_in_ICT 

= Goals  =

*Educate and instruct on how to leverage Mozilla platform and web platform 
*Create localization opportunities 
*Have Mozilla be a visible supporter of this new non-profit, all open-source conference

= Status  =

*Sent involvement ideas to organizers, waiting for feedback on what kind of audience will be attending.

= ''<br> ''Confirmed Activities  =

= <br> Outstanding Needs/To-Dos  =

*Determine who is able to attend 
*Connect with local contributors 
*Determine activities 
**Booth/table? 
**Hacking event? 
**Localization training -- Mozilla can show quite easily how to build a language pack add-on and then upload it to AMO for people to use. The session can be done most likely in 1 hour, but could be extended to a longer session if necessary. 
*What technical resources will be available at the event? (connectivity, power, etc)

''Promoting event:'' 

= <br> Mozilla Attendees  =

*If you are interested in attending please [[Event:Maker_Faire_Africa:Attendees|check out our page for both Mozilla community members and employees]].

= <br> Contacts  =

*Mark Grimes, event organizer/sponsor, Ned.com (via Dietrich) 
*Raymond Etornam Agbeame, incoming QA intern from Ghana, might know local mozilla contributors interested in participating? 
*Taku Joey, contributor in Harare, contacted to see if interested in attending (via Alix) 
*Jay said he'd contact our campus reps in Ghana ( Kwamena Appiah-Kubi ) 
*Kasahorow 
**http://kasahorow.org/all/project 
**https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9978