AFRICA ABONG LINUX

LINUX USER GROUP IN BAMENDA

1. Mr. Michel's arrival in Cameroon.
2. Limbe Linux Users Group created.
3. Bamenda University of Science and Technology welcomes Mr Michel.
4. Mr. Michel's goals and objectives in Cameroon for six months.
5. Mr Michel arrived Cameroon on Monday the 19th of November at 6.30am. Some members of the LUG Bamenda i.e Miss Chanceline, Mr Chi David and Princewill were present at the Douala International airport that morning to welcome him.
6. Mr Michel and the members of LUG Bamenda went to Limbe to examine the house which will accommodate the group in Limbe. This house was still under construction and will be completed in a week's time. Mr Michel and the team from Bamenda also visited two computer centres in Limbe i.e Baapsystems and Lukmef all located in Limbe central town. These centres were encouraged to cooperate in the setting up of the LUG in Limbe.
7. Mr. Michel and the team travel to Bamenda by night and arrive Tuesday 20th in the morning. While in Bamenda he visited the LTSP Cyber Cafe at the Baptist Centre Nwen and also went to OCOSO to examine the computers which were said to be having network problems.
8. A meeting was held at OCOSO to examine the problems of the LUGB and also to plan for the visit to Bamenda University of Science and Technology (BUST). Members of the LUGB presented some problems as follows:-

Lack of technical knowledge in networking of computers with LTSP.

• File management in Linux.
• Installation of Edubuntu and hardisk partitioning.
• How to use Live CD like Puppy, Knoppix, DYNE etc.
• Webpage creation advance technics.
• Troubleshooting of computers.
• Linux commands usage.

A visit to the Bamenda University of Science and Technology was made where the LUGB members were teaching information technology. Mr Michel gave a presentation about open source software and other issues concerning information technology. Miss Chanceline introduce the group and its activities and the Ubuntu Solidarity song was sang by members of LUGB. Mr Kamga gave a lecture on Hardware. Members of LUGB and Mr Michel met the administration of BUST and the following decisions were taken: