'Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. Created for a mainstream audience, the show features a hyperkinetic presenter and interviews and showcases from both the South African and world open-source/free software scene. As the official Go Open website explains: "The program will showcase success stories, interviews with the top local and international pioneers, and the latest products and news from the open source world."
The creators of 'Go Open' (http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/) have very
kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.
[EPISODE 3]
Lead Story: Mark Shuttleworth
Mark was born and raised in South Africa, and studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town. He went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and internet privacy, developed using Open Source software. He sold Thawte to the American company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. In April 2002 Mark became the first African in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station.
Mark maintains that 'If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world'.
With this in mind he and his Foundation have invested in projects such as TuxLabs, HIP2B2, The School Tool Project (to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence) and The Ubuntu Project, a community project with participation from many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd.
Open Source Means Business: Gail Reid / TuXlabs
Some 80 previously-disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape are now benefiting from the Shuttleworth Foundation’s TuXlab programme.
Big Gun: Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a Partner at the Tribal Knowledge Group, with 15 years of Internet engineering, consulting and project management experience. His work on Apache
What is hot: Freedom Toaster
Geek of the Week: Neil Blakey-Milner
NEIL BLAKEY-MILNER – a strong advocate of open source with a passion for FreeBSD.'Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. Created for a mainstream a...all »'Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. Created for a mainstream audience, the show features a hyperkinetic presenter and interviews and showcases from both the South African and world open-source/free software scene. As the official Go Open website explains: "The program will showcase success stories, interviews with the top local and international pioneers, and the latest products and news from the open source world."
The creators of 'Go Open' (http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/) have very
kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.
[EPISODE 3]
Lead Story: Mark Shuttleworth
Mark was born and raised in South Africa, and studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town. He went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and internet privacy, developed using Open Source software. He sold Thawte to the American company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. In April 2002 Mark became the first African in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station.
Mark maintains that 'If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances, we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world'.
With this in mind he and his Foundation have invested in projects such as TuxLabs, HIP2B2, The School Tool Project (to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence) and The Ubuntu Project, a community project with participation from many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd.
Open Source Means Business: Gail Reid / TuXlabs
Some 80 previously-disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape are now benefiting from the Shuttleworth Foundation’s TuXlab programme.
Big Gun: Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Dirk-Willem van Gulik is a Partner at the Tribal Knowledge Group, with 15 years of Internet engineering, consulting and project management experience. His work on Apache
What is hot: Freedom Toaster
Geek of the Week: Neil Blakey-Milner
NEIL BLAKEY-MILNER – a strong advocate of open source with a passion for FreeBSD.«
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