For the latest agenda and notes from the sessions please visit our wiki.

Africa Source II agenda was developed for the following primary target audiences:

• NGO IT practitioners working with educational institutions, resource and community centres, rights based NGOs and health information organisations
• IT developers, advocates and implementors
• people interested in the localization of software

Source events agenda and approach to learning:

The final agenda of each Source event is always prepared with the participants and facilitators. It is worth underlining that our method of learning and training has a very dynamic and participatory character and the agenda is developed day by day.

The style of the workshops is based on the concept of facilitation; facilitate as in "to make it easier" and of skill share (that everybody attending has something to offer and teach others - that is why the selection process is so rigorous). We are trying to avoid traditional conference presentation or lecture-heavy sessions, and instead invite facilitators to lead practical learning and encourage discussion and exchange. We make sure that all participants will enjoy opportunities to speak and listen to their peers, contributing their ideas and expertise, speaking up when they have problems, working with others, learning in small groups and getting hands-on experience. Many participants during the time of the workshop are encouraged to play a facilitators role. Sessions are focused on results and collaboration; participants hopefully leave each workshop with both new knowledge and new acquaintances with whom they can continue the dialogue.

Agenda for Africa Source II

As described above the content of Africa Source II was developed around the needs of the primary target audiences; educational institutions, resource and community centres, rights based NGOs and health information organisations. The agenda borrowed from the successes of previous Source events whilst addressing the specific needs of the Africa Source II participants. It was shaped in consultation with the advisory group and the events main partners. The three main themes covered in the event tracks were:

• migration and adoption for NGOs;
• migration and adoption for education and resource centres;
• information handling and advocacy.

Participants of the migration and adoption for NGOs track left Africa Source II with the practical skills to set up a small NGO office entirely using free and open source solutions. They learned techniques for migrating an organisation to open source, from installation, through to troubleshooting and servicing and maintenance.

Participants of the migration and adoption for education and resource centres track focussed primarily on options and techniques for setting up and managing FOSS labs (community centres and schools), they covered subjects such as wireless, voice over IP, thin-clients and dedicated distributions.

Participants of the information handling and advocacy track looked at a variety of open publishing and communicationstools as well as the creative use of other hardware such as mobile phones and PDAs.

Other topics, covered during the afternoon sessions, presented participants with a variety of choices. These included a wide variety of introductory practical sessions such as localisation or the use of GIS as well as more conceptual sessions on 'FLOSSophy' topics, such as the role of IPRand the Creative Commons Project.

Draft overview of the agenda:

For the current agenda please visit our wiki.

There are also notes from the morning sessions.