We’ve safely arrived. Joseph, Ross and I have joined Mallory in Dakar for the World Social Forum.

We took the afternoon off today. A 15 minute cab ride followed by a short 5 minute boat ride took us to N’gore Island.

The Occupy Wall Street protests taking place around the world are incredibly moving.

May First/People Link collaborated with Mousa from Rwanda to teach our first workshop at the convergence center.

The way we evaluate Internet technology is changing … quickly.

Fabian, from London and Molefi from South African, arrived early monday morning - and were instrumental in our last day preparations for the IMC Africa convergence Center.

What are the biggest security threats to my laptop? Almost all the software I install is vetted and signed by a member of the Debian team.

Puppet labs’s use of the term puppetmaster is rather clever (in contrast to other un-necessarily offensive uses of “master” in the software world).

We’re slowly adjusting to daily power outages. We’ve only had one that last 24 hours… most are just 1 - 2 hours.

Navigating the openssl suite of subcommands is time consuming. Here’s my list of frequently used commands for easy reference: