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http://makerfaireafrica.com/

When: August 14-16, 2009 (note: l10n work week takes 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''*Educate and instruct on how to leverage Mozilla platform and web platform *Create localization opportunities * Sent involvement ideas to organizersHave Mozilla be a visible supporter of this new non-profit, waiting for feedback on what kind of audience will be attending.all open-source conference

<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 *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)

<br> ''Mozilla Attendees''* Your name here

*If you are interested in attending please check out our page for both Mozilla community members and employees.  ''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