[RULE] Liboka ya Congo presented at Fikin in Kinshasa
Ingo Lantschner
ingo.lists at vum.at
Wed Jul 21 12:23:12 EEST 2004
These days Bino na Biso (BnB) presents the RULE-based "Liboke ya Congo"
(LyC) on Fikin, the most important trade show in Kinshasa/DRC. "Liboke ya
Congo" translates to something like "Box of Congo". This system is a Red
Hat 9 based operating system, installed using "Slinky" from The
RULE-Project, and therefore running on even outdated PCs with todays speed
and the most up to date applications like Abiword 2, OpenOffice 1.1, the
latest Acrobat Reader or Webbrowsers like Opera 7.5 and Firebird. "Liboke
ya Congo" includes a set of Lingala-localized applications. Most of the
work of translation and research has been done by BnB-staff in Kinshasa.
The "Liboke ya Congo" will help to bring IT-knowledge and better means of
communication to many people in DRC and its neighbour-countries. Also it
can be seen as an important step in building up a self-sustainable,
localized IT-culture.
Contactperson Kinshasa: Leon LUEMBA, libokeyacongo at yahoo.fr
Contactperson Vienna: Ingo Lantschner, ingo at vum.at
Further Information:
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Screen-"shot" of the first LyC:
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/img/Photo_Leon_012.jpg
This text:
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/lyc.html
Bino na Biso, the Lingala expression for "You and We" is an intercultural,
humanist cooperative based in Kinshasa/DRC. See also
http://members.inode.at/i.lantschner/de/index.html
Lingala (ISO-code ln) is a language spoken alongside the Congoriver. It
derives from Bobangi and has in-cooperated parts from Kikongo, Swaheli and
French. Today it is getting more an more important because of the many
famous musicians from Kongo.
DRC is the abbreviation for "Democratic Republic of Congo", the former
"Zaire"; ISO-code CD
The RULE-Project, an open source-initiative on functional recycling of
PC-hardware;
see also http://www.rule-project.org
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