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saturday 18.8.2007

LINUX USER GROUP (LUG) BAMENDA, NWP CAMEROON

AUGUST 11- 2007, TIME: 1.00PM TO 5.00PM

LINUX USER GROUP BAMENDA MEETING OF 18 AUGUST 2007 AT OCOSO BAMENDA

LINUX USERS GROUP BAMENDA REPORT OF THE MEETING OF 18TH OF AUGUST 2007

The opinions and the name of one person constantly appearing on the reports was not the best and that opinions of other members should also be considered.

The idea of sending opinions by email to lugbamenda@immerda.ch was said to be not the best forum for communication for the group because somebody can delete a mail sent by another person. It was also said that anybody can go into the email account with the password and write anything maybe insulting a person or just write nonsense to destabilize the group. Members said the group must be very careful with mails in lugbamenda@immerda.ch

Mr Micheal Fotang said chating using skypte on Wednesdays was not the best since skypte is not installed on most cyber cafe in town. Mr Fotang said he will creat a forum in yahoo for the group before next meeting which will be more secure and easy to use.

The issue of membership cards was also raised and questions were asked who is going to pay for the cost, Mr Chi David promised to shoulder the expenses for these cards and he promised to produce the first 10 membership cards and also the membership forms which will be issued to some members on the SFD ceremony. Mr Chi promise to make draft copies of the invitations/letters of appeal for SFD.

The plan of action for the SFD was also examine members agreed on the estimated cost for this event to cost about 150,000frs and the contribution of 2,000frs or above by each member for this day and the latest date for contributions to be made was the 30th of August 2007. Miss Rose Awa Lum was chosen to collect the money and Sayah Frida was also selected to collect the money for the HTML course and members who will take the full HTML course gave their names.

Miss Chanceline gave a complete and detail report about the material from Yaounde and members suggested that the group should not focus too much on material but on building the members through training and capacity building. Chanceline also made mention of the amounts of money that was contributed by some members for the transportation of these material. These members were a) Mr Ndong Isaac b) Miss Chanceline c) Mr Chi David d) Mr Fotang Micheal. Other members are still to make their own contributions toward the transportation of this material. It was agreed that concerning material the group will follow strictly the instructions of Mr Michel. Some emails sent by Mr Michel were circulated for members to read. Mr Maurice Beukam and Mr Micheal Fotang concluded that Mr Michel is actually afraid because of his bad experience that he had in Cameroon with material and he will not like that something happens again like that.

On other matters, Mr Michel called and talked to a few members of the group during the meeting and Mr Beukam Maurice gave a very brief lesson on HTML on how to insert color and save a home page. Immediately after this lesson one member of the group successfully created his homepage and open it with a browser. Chanceline reported after the phone call from Mr Michel that he suggested that some other members of the group should also plan to teach courses in the group on subjects that they master very well eg Typing etc.

Mr Chi drew a diagram on the blackboard demonstrating how Lug grow and expand and finally become LOCO TEAMS. He said if the Lug in Bamenda becomes stable, then the group should plant other groups at divisional levels, sub -division level and then move to another provinces until the whole country is covered. This will enable the groups to have provincial conferences and national confrences. Mr Chi said this is his dream about the Lug Bamenda.

BELOW WERE THE OPINIONS AND COMMENTS OF SOME MEMBERS OF THE GROUP DURING THE MEETING.

1. FLORENCE BIH(Medical Laboratory Technician) email; bihflorence 2003@ yahoo.com Tel; 237 7748-56-71 wrote............ I am happy to join the Linux group but a little bit scared in the moment because i do not know computing. But with the help of the members in the group, I think I will know it better. I have attended 02 meetings in the group.
2. CHI DAVID .A(Information Technology Manager) email; chidavidafu @ yahoo.co.uk Tel; 237 7791-48-78 wrote:- I appreciate the creation of a LUG in BAMENDA. This group is really helping me to learn new things for example,i created my first home page today because of our coming together and sharing knowledge. It is a good thing to work together. There is also a lot of fun in the group. The information below is what I put on my first homepage which is true about my village.
3. I was born in Awing village in the North West Province of Cameroon, our main food is called ''Achu'' it is made up of pounded cocoyam and served with yellow or black soup, it is eaten together with any cooked animal skin called ''NGUPNYAM'' presently there is a new concept about this meal that when you eat ''Achu'' that has slept for two or three days you become very dull and foolish especially if you are a student undergoing studies, some parents have testify this to be true. But the truth is that ''Achu'' that has been kept for three or more days seems to taste better even the soup. I have attended 11 meetings in the LUG Bamenda and will receive my permanent membership card on the SFD. I am very happy to be one of the pioneer members. Bamenda LUG is for me just to learn to see things in a change and changing for the better world. As a teacher I have notice some weakness amongst the members and try to solve it by offering a course on BUILD AND MAINTAIN WEB PAGES WITH HTML. This will also help the members to have an idea of coding , code, source code , open source and can be an introduction to Linux O.S
4. I am looking on ways to improve on my computer knowledge and acquire university distance degree. I have attended 8 meetings. Thanks for all who are supporting the LUG MAURICE BEUKAM K. Tel=(237)99580464 HOD computer science G.T.H.S bkmaurice@yahoo.fr Technicien Superieure en Electronique.
5. I am happy to join Linux Users Group of BAMENDA. I am teacher in GTHS BAMENDA and I wish to increase my knowledge in what ever will be given in LUG BAMENDA. My wish is to see this group going as far as possible and being concious hardworker. I have attended 5 meetings. Thanks very much TEFOIT SIMON Tel=77754226 GTHS BAMENDA smtefoit@yahoo.fr.
6. I am UNITY MENGWI from my own point of view the prospect of the group will be realised by the grace of GOD most members are trying to see that they contact others even at home to know their reason of late, absentism and so .most members are reliable and according to me if we continue in this mode, we will achieve our goals in a short term. I have attended 7 meetings. UNITY MENGWI email=unitymengwi@yahoo.com(female).
7. I am KIMBI CELESTINE BAMENDA CAMEROON I am just from my first meeting with the Linux group . Infact I am excited to receive my first code on HTML and to design headings, and background with code also I have realised how easy it is to open and save web page which are not coded. Email=celesangu@yahoo.com Tel=(237)77181438.
8. I am AWA ROSE LUM still a new member and attending meetings for the 3rd time. I really appreciate the effort of those who thought it wise to creat such a group in BAMENDA because it will go a long way to enlighten us the female . I stay at metta quarters in MAKON BAMENDA AND MY PHONE NUMBER IS (237 )77023252. I will be creating an email address very soon.(female)
9. I am SAYAH FRIDA.I stay at Ndamukong Street Nkwen Bamenda I come from Gom village in Nwa sub division .my Tel no;75553385. my opinion about the group is that we should work more harder and we open a cyber cafe where we can install our Linux programs. I have attended 9 meetings.(female)
10. TIFANG PETER I appreciate the open spirit of the group as any new structure, there must be little hurdles which are gradually disappearing . The potential are high and we shall expand this philosophy to other towns in Cameroon. I have atteded 7 meetings. Email:ocoso2000@yahoo.com, Tel:77578703.
11. 10) I am NGAINKU CHANCELINE, i am a native of BABANKI TUNGOH I stay at Sisia Quarter Nkwen Bamenda ,i will like to appreciate all the people who want AFRICANS -CAMEROONIANS to be enlightened as far as technology is concern and i am very happy to see that solidarity and openness which is the goal of the group to exist amongst the members. I have attended 11 meetings email:n_chanceline@yahoo.com Tel:(237)75726207 (female).