Open Source training on

Oct 17, 2004

The business of managing and maintaining Open Source Software in Uganda has been boosted with the launching of a Linux based training institution in Kampala.

The business of managing and maintaining Open Source Software in Uganda has been boosted with the launching of a Linux based training institution in Kampala.

Davis Weddi reports that the Eastern African Centre for Open Source Software (EACOSS) opened its doors to the public last week with a training workshop attended by University lecturers and officials from government departments and non-government organisations.

Open Source Software are free of charge programmes and applications used to run computers. They are freely available from the Internet and are also freely distributed by a community of users and software developers.

EACOSS chairman Prof. Dr. Victor van Reijswoud, said “this is the centre where we shall train people to use linux-based technology for office solutions, including setting up the free linux software on their computers.”

The centre, located at the premises of Uganda Institute for Communications and Technology, Nakawa, is providing “a one-student per connected computer” training. Reijswoud said the centre will operate as an Internet café at daytime and training centre in the evenings to accommodate the working class.

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