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AFRINIC

Africa Internet Summit

The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference. It is the pinnacle educational and business ICT event in Africa where key players in the Internet industry can interact with the global Internet community.

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openSUSE

openSUSE Conference 2019

The openSUSE Conference is the annual openSUSE community event that brings people from around the world together to meet and collaborate. I attended the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg, Germany, which was held at Z-Bau (House for Contemporary Culture) between 24 to 26 May.

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Mauritius

DevCon 2019 in a nutshell

The fifth edition of the Developers Conference ran from the 11th till the 1313 of April 2019 at the usual venue of Voilà Hotel & Flying Dodo. The early morning of Thursday, Shelly & I reached the hotel to lend a helping hand to the MSCC Squad (the boys & girls making DevCon happen).

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AFRINIC

AfriNIC Community Discuss - Gratitude!

Gratitude. This is the title of the email thread that started a debate over privacy & data protection within the AFRINIC community. The email was sent on the "community discuss" mailing list of AfriNIC.

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Mauritius

A talk about concurrency by Renghen

One of the sessions that I was able to shoot the whole of it during the Developers Conference 2019, is that of Renghen Pajanalingum aka Thanos. He spoke about the different techniques to attain concurrency when writing software.

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Africa

Internet shutdown in Benin

Benin's government blocked access to the internet ahead of the general elections on Sunday 28 April 2019. Initially only social networks were blocked and users turned to VPNs to be able to access services such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram.

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Mauritius

Post-DevCon Code & Coffee meetup

Yesterday, I attended the MSCC Code & Coffee meetup at Mugg & Bean. It reminded me of the good old days of being a frequent meetup attendee and all those geek talks that happened around those Mugg & Bean tables with long hours drinking coffee.

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