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Chisimba is pleased to announce the launch of our podcast.   The aim of the podcast is to bring together the Chisimba and South African FOSS communities by sharing our stories, insights, challenges, ideas and opinions.  We hope to talk to people who use Chisimba, develop Chisimba, spread awareness around Chisimba and learn from Chisimba.

Our community includes FET lecturers and students, UWC and the Free Software Innovation Unit (FSIU) staff and students, FOSS developers and users, and public and private sector stakeholders as well as civil society.

Chisimba can also be regarded as the ‘offspring’ of the AVOIR network, so we are proud to include this network as being part of our Chisimba community.

The launch episode of the Chisimba podcast includes interviews with Sunday Adewumi and Enver Ravat who are the AVOIR chairperson and co-ordinator respectively.  Sunday shares with us his knowledge on, and objectives for, the AVOIR network and Enver talks about AVOIR’s coverage in Africa and beyond and also tells us about some of the ground-breaking African FOSS initiatives that we should be looking out for.

Mbombo Maleka from the Department of Communication shares the reasons why his department supports the Chisimba initiative and also talks about government’s FOSS policy and the inroads that have been made to date.

Charl van Niekerk and James Scoble are both developers who have worked on Chisimba (and its forerunner, KEWL) and have developed more than software … they’ve developed an affinity for the Chisimba initiative and its burgeoning community.  Both Charl and James talk about their involvement in the project.

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