Episode 23 - Ross Addiss Chats About Linux User Groups, Impi Linux and the Future of Linux

In this episode Mark interviews Ross Addiss from the Gauteng Linux User Group. We get some interesting insights into the Linux skill shortage in South Africa and Impi Linux 

Episode 22 -Crisis Commons, Dell, GMail and Other Opinions

In this episode Darlene and I chat about Crisis Commons, the dangers of cloud computing and the behaviour of corporates.

Episode 21 - Interview with ThePenguinTrail.org Organisers Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen

In this episode we chat to the woman behind the Penguin Trail initiative, a Cape-To-Cairo road trip to help promote open source in Africa.

In this episode we talk to Alastair Otter, founder and editor of Tectonic, the only ZA news site dedicated to issues relating to open source in South Africa and Africa. Alastair trained as a journalist and started Tectonic 5 years ago. A year ago the site went on hiatus and now its back for which the open source community is grateful.

In the interview we chat about the challenges facing open source in South Africa and Africa and what can be done to improve open source penetration in the continent.

Episode 19 - E-Waste in South America.

In this episode of open tech exchange Darlene interviews  Jhoanna Rosales about her new, first of its kind, e-waste initiative in Ecuador.  Based on Jhoannes back ground as an environmental engineer, she identified the pressing need for this type of business.  

Episode 18 - 16 March 2010

In this episode of OTE, Darlene and I discuss

• patents and the Free Software Foundation's Patent Absurdity video.
• the humble indie bundle experiment,
• challenges in open source deployments in Kenya,
• Ubuntu hate,
• the calamari project - Squid Log Analysis Application

Episode 17 - Sexism in Open Source

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange Darlene interviews Bruce Byfield abour sexism in open source. Bruce recently gave a presentation on sexism in open souce at COSSFEST 2010.