Workshops and meetings on localisation, 2005-08
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During the period of activity of the IDRC-funded PanAfrican Localisation project, there were a number of workshops and other events - some connected directly or indirectly with PAL, and others not.
1. Localisation workshops
1.1 Workshops organised by the PanAfrican Localisation project
- PanAfrican Localisation workshop, Casablanca, Morocco, 2005/6/13-15
- PanAfrican Localisation workshop II, Tshwane (Centurion), South Africa, 2007/11/5-7
1.2 Other workshops funded by IDRC
- Pan African Research on L10N Workshop & Localization Blitz, 2007/2/24-27. This was organised by the Tactical Technology Collective
1.3 Note about appearance on the wiki
Each of these three workshops is organised as a separate WikiGroup section, and these three are retained for historical reference. The color theme, and in the case of Marrakech the design, differ from the rest of the wiki.
2. Other meetings on localisation in Africa
- Africa track at LISA/Cairo 2005, the conference of the Localisation Industry Standards Association held in Cairo, Egypt on 2005/12/5-8.
3. Other meetings in which localisation was a topic
- Africa Source I & II, held respectively on 2004/3/15-19 in Namibia & 2006/1/8-15 in Uganda
- Multilinguisme pour la diversité culturelle et la participation de tous dans le cyberespace, Bamako, Mali, 2005/5/6-7
4. Other events relating to localisation in Africa
- Unicode and Language Support in Francophone Africa, panel at the 27th Unicode and Internationalization Conference (IUC27), Berlin, Germany 2005/4/6
5. Events relating to open source in Africa at which localisation may have been a topic
Rencontres africaines du logiciel libre (RALL), 3e édition, Rabat (Maroc), du 22 au 29 novembre 2007 http://www.francophonie.org/3e-Rencontres-africaines-du.html#layer_jeune ; http://www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/CP_COM_15_11_07.pdf