Africa
Join this group if you are installing, maintaining, or otherwise involved with at least 1 Drupal installation used by Africans within Africa. We want to keep our discussions locally relevant.
If you are from South Africa, please join the South Africa group at http://groups.drupal.org/south-africa.
For all the rest, feel free to join this group until there's enough community (say 10 members) in your region--enough to split off.
Meanwhile, welcome! We (www.suuch.com) are based in Accra, Ghana!
www.itbusinessafrica.com and www.rateoga.com
These are two new African projects that I am about to sign off . The first is self-descriptive and it is the online edition of a magazine named IT Business in Africa which is meant to be a meeting hub for CEOs, CIOs and all ICT professionals in Africa . The second is a public appraisal website for Nigerian leaders.
Showcase African Sites (GHOP 2007-2008)
Hello,
I am a GHOP participant who completed Drupal Issue 75
I have selected two of the top sites and posted them on http://groups.drupal.org/node/6878 and posted the small thumbnails here, as per the GHOP issue.
Other sites I discovered and posted include: Liberdadi, Birdman, Suuch Solutions, Butronix, and FHSST. For links to these sites please see the showcase sites page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/6878.
Below is my report (For your convenience it's also attatched in the following formats: .doc, .odt, and .pdf)
REQUESTING INPUT DRUPAL IN AFRICA
Hello All,
PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO READ THIS
I am a high school student in American participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007 (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and am working on a task for Drupal. The task is to research how Drupal is used in Africa to demonstrate that Drupal is used worldwide.
I am posting this to you either because you are an Africa group, have an African Drupal site, or have been using Drupal for a while and are knowledgeable (or all of the above).
Cape Verdean Site built with Drupal
Liberdadi.com is an internet project based on the Cape Verdean Island Santiago which is built with Drupal.
We successfully upgraded to Drupal 5.1 yesterday.
Liberdadi.com is multilingual and will be the first cape verdean website with creole interface and content.
We would like to translate everything into portuguese creole and then contribute the .po files to enable other cape verdean projects to set up a site in creole (which is in fact the national language).
Next steps are:
- Translation to creole (ongoing)
- Enhance the site with social network features
- Build a creole wiki
Liberdadi.com is a project of Delta Cultura Cabo Verde and we encourage our computer- and internet students to use Liberdadi.com to publish their stories and blogs. As soon as we generate enough content we will publish a wall newspaper in creole to contribute informations to the people which dont have internet access.
Any feedback and participation is welcome!
Looking for Ghana-based PHP devs
We (Suuch Solutions) are always looking for Drupal talent in the Accra area. If you've got some PHP skills and are willing to learn, feel free to drop me an email.
South African project using Drupal
Hi
Just a quick note to say that the Free High School Science Texts (http://www.fhsst.org) project is using Drupal - based in South Africa and writing free textbooks. We wrote our own module which I would like to neaten up and give back but time is the issue right now.
Mark
