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DevCon 2021 is happening. Save the dates; 18, 19 & 20 March 2021. After having to resort to a virtual conference this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the DevCon 2021 physical conference will be a much awaited event on the island.
The virtual Hackertoberfest event happened last night. Folks from the local tech community joined in to celebrate open source software. I joined them too and spoke about Flatpak on openSUSE.
During the closing session of the Virtual Developers Conference, last month, Jochen Kirstaetter (a.k.a JoKi) announced the creation of Jobs in Tech (JiT). Jobs in Tech is operated by Agile Media for the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community.
The Minister of Technology, Communication and Innovation (TCI), Deepak Balgobin, announced that the Cybersecurity Bill will be introduced to the National Assembly of Mauritius as parliament resumes on the 3rd of November 2020
The highlights of the summit are the Policy Discussions which took place on Thursday 17 September and the AFRINIC Board Elections that were held on the last day of the summit, i.e Friday 18 September. Electronic voting had begun two weeks ago
The Virtual Developers Conference of the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community was live streamed on YouTube on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September 2020. It connected 90 speakers from different parts of the world, not the Mauritius, with hundreds of viewers that showed interest
According to Bruneau Laurette, the initiator of the protest march, between 123,000 and 157,000 people joined the protest march on the Saturday 29 August 2020 in Port-Louis. The Mauritius Police Force anticipated a crowd of about 20,000 people and preparations were made in that sense.
Santi Bai 'Maya' Hanoomanjee, cousin of the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, was nominated as the High Commissioner of Mauritius to India shortly after Jugnauth's alliance won the general elections of 2019 by scoring 37.68% of Mauritian votes
Yesterday, we were all saddened by the news of 18 dead dolphins brought ashore by sea waves on the south-east coasts. We were also angry when we found out that the Fisheries Minister, Sudheer Maudhoo, denied any link between the deaths of the animals and the Wakashio catastrophe