BarCamp Cameroon 2009
The BarCampCameroon 2009 edition is over
We'll gather what have been done here.
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Plus d'infos et suivez nous sur / Check out the links below for more information or to follow us:
-Blog: http://barcampafrica.com/cameroon
-Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarCampCameroon ( follow us with #barcampcameroon even on Flickr)
-Identi.ca : http://identi.ca/group/barcampcameroon
-Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2167753/
-Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=130832626678
Event details - Ou et quand
When/Date - November 7th 2009
Where/Lieu - Le Meridien Hotel, Douala
Theme
The theme for this event was Digital Dreams see this page for more info: BarCampCameroon2009Theme
Program
Please visit the page BarCampCameroon2009Topics to see the sessions that ran. Please update this page with your slides and notes.
Logs
Who's blogging? / On Parle de nous
Various links about this event
Various websites, blogs were talking about the first edition of BarcampCameroon.
Headline Sponsors
RINGO
A RINGO SA, nous croyons que chacun a droit à l’accès aux technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) sans lesquelles l’épanouissement personnel et le développement économique – dans un monde de globalisation – ne sont possibles.
Cet engagement donne un sens à nos valeurs d’entreprise – qui sont simplicité, accessibilité et fair play – ainsi qu’à l’engagement professionnel de nos collaborateurs.
Notre mission est de rendre l’Internet accessible au plus grand nombre de Camerounais.
Ringo, c’est l’Internet pour TOUS !
Lien: http://www.ringo.cm
Ringo were our headline sponsors and provided logistical support, super fast wifi connectivity all day, t-shirts for every participant and all of their exceptional staff did a great job in setting up the venue.
GOOGLE
Google will be attending and sponsoring the event.
Special thanks go to Google for their support in sponsoring the venue, the sound system and for their last minute support with the venue when we were having problems the night before and on the morning of the event. Their contribution was exceptional and without them the event wouldn't have happened.
OPENSOLUTIONS Cameroun
Open Solutions Cameroun est une Société de Services en Logiciels Libres et solutions Telecom qui accompagne les entreprises et institutions dans le choix de solutions open source.
Lien : www.opensolutions-cameroun.com
Open Solutions Cameroun provided communications and logistical support for the event.
Africa 2.0
A l'origine un blog qui parle de l'Afrique Positive Africa 2.0 s'est transformé au fil des mois et des années en groupe de nouveaux médias qui intervient dans la presse, la finance et le conseil en NTIC.
Lien : www.africa2point0.com
Thanks to Africa 2.0 for putting money towards the lunch on the day.
Mobile Money Cameroon
MOBILE MONEY CAMEROON SA (2M), created in 2006, is a Cameroonian public limited company with a capital of F CFA 1 billion. The company is an outcome of the pooling of local financial institutions and companies.
2M has the endorsement of :
- MINPOSTEL for value-added telecommunication services
- ART for the required resources
- BEAC and COBAC through UNION BANK OF CAMEROON (member of the OCEANIC GROUP) for electronic currency manipulation
2M is an electronic payment system provider and to this effect, has developed in Cameroon, an electronic payment service dubbed MyMoney. The service enables everyone carry out daily financial transactions with the use of either a phone, a smartcard, a USB key, a wrist-watch, a key-holder or the internet.
Special thanks to MyMoney for coming on board so quickly the night before and helping us with some issues we were having with the venue.
Africonline
Africonline is a newly formed African Centered design and development Group. This company is an extension of a more than 10 years old American company that has well over 50 clients to date. The partnership with certain African natives, business owners and leading IT companies have resulted in a force that believes in a world where every and all Small businesses can and should have an internet presence at a minimum. Top notch technology, high production value design and slick efficient visual communication medium are all rolled into a ready-to-go out-of-the-box affordable package at just the mere cost of regular application hosting. With custom design solutions developed for easy and fast integration into the framework, AO aims at Changing the Digital Face of Africa.
"A website for all. This is what we were born to do and this is the time, so join us."
We are pleased to have Africonline as one of sponsor of this first edition of BarCamp Cameroon.
Special thanks to AfricOnline for coming on board so quickly, their money was used for media coverage and the lunch.
LimbeLabs
Limbe Labs is a technology consultancy and startup incubator located in the heart of Central West Africa. Our offices are in the seaside town of Limbe in Cameroon, under the shadow of Mt. Cameroon and less than an hour away from Douala, Cameroon’s main flight hub and commercial capital.
We’re a group of technologists and entrepreneurs who share a passion for all things tech, with a special interest in African ingenuity.
Limbe Labs has three main business units focused on consulting, socially-responsible outsourcing and incubating technology startups.
site: www.limbelabs.com
Limbe Labs est une societe de conseil technologique et un incubateur de startup en Afrique centrale et de l’ouest. Situe dans la ville cotiere de Limbe au pied du Mont Cameroun et a une heure de Douala, Limbe Labs oeuvre principalement dans les activite de conseil, sous traitance “socialement responsable” et incubateur technologique pour startup.
Lien : www.limbelabs.com
Limbe Labs provided communications and logistical support for the event.
AIRFRANCE / KLM
Air France-KLM en tant que partenaire officiel offre aux participants hors du Cameroun, des réductions jusqu'à -47%* sur une large gamme tarifaire.* Soumis à conditions.
Lien : www.airfranceklm-globalmeetings.com
AirFrance-KLM provided discounts on flights.
Media Sponsors
Maneno
Maneno.org is the official blogging sponsor of BarCampAfrica and their blogging platform powers www.barcampafrica.com and our blog.
Mashable
Fondée en Juillet 2005, Mashable est le plus grand blog du monde seront tournés vers le Web 2.0 et Social Media nouvelles. Avec plus de 7 millions de pages vues par mois, Mashable est le blog le plus prolifique examen de nouveaux sites et services, la publication de nouvelles de dernière heure sur les nouveautés sur le web et en offrant les ressources sociales des médias et des guides. Mashable auditoire comprend des adopteurs précoces, sociaux passionnés de médias, des entrepreneurs, prescripteurs, des marques et des sociétés, marketing, relations publiques et agences de publicité, Web 2.0 et des journalistes amateurs de technologie.
Lien : http://mashable.com/
ReadWriteWeb France
ReadWriteWeb est un blog dédié aux technologies web qui en couvre l’actualité et se distingue par ses notes d’analyse et de prospective ainsi que par l’accent mis sur les usages dans les nouvelles technologies et leur impact sur les média et la société. Il est né en Nouvelle Zélande, fondé par Richard MacManus.
Classé parmi les 10 blogs les plus influents au monde par Technorati et Wikio, il est lu par près d’un million de visiteurs uniques chaque jour et il est publié au sein de la rubrique Technologie du New York Times.
En juin dernier, ReadWriteWeb France a été élu meilleur blog high-tech dans le magazine Challenges par un jury présidé par Nathalie Kosciusko Moriset, secrétaire d’Etat à l’Economie Numérique.
Lien : http://fr.readwriteweb.com/ ( Francais ) et http://www.readwriteweb.com/ ( Anglais )
KERAWA
Kerawa.com est un site d'annonces, permettant aux africains, d'acceder a des annonces locales, pres de chez eux, et de beneficier de la puissance de diffusion d'Internet.
Kerawa a et cree en Octobre 2007, et est present a ce jour dans pres de 20 pays africains dont le Cameroun, le Nigeria, le Senegal, la Cote d'ivoire et le Ghana.
Lien: http://www.kerawa.com
Intéresse par devenir sponsor de BarCamp Cameroun ? / Interested in Sponsoring BarCamp Cameroon ?
S'il vous plaît lisez ce message blog / Please read this blog post :
http://africamp.com/articles/cameroon/ovo1255529722/
Planners & Volunteers- Organisateurs
We have an official mailing list for those interested in getting involved in the organisation of the event, please join this group:
Participants - Inscription
Registration is now closed, however you can see the list of particpants here:
http://barcampdouala.eventbrite.com/
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag (BarCampCameroon) for content related to this event
The organisers of this barcamp held meetings on #barcamp-cm on Freenode network.
You can access it through this webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=barcamp-cm
Logos and Promotion
The following logos and banners can be used for the event.
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Large Splash White
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