[Discuss] Some followup from our Jan. Install Fest

[David Frey]

It's good to see that more of Africa is getting online.  I get a lot of
intriguing business proposals from people in Nigeria.  Hopefully
Mozambique will be no different.

David


On 10/3/2006, "Brian Burger" <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:

>Folks who made it to the Install Fest back in late Jan/06 might remember the
>African guy who came in with the older desktop PC; he was the only one to
>actually go to the trouble of bringing a desktop to the Fest.
>
>He was working with one of the missionary groups, and doing training to set
>up email-over-shortwave stations in very remote sections of Africa. They had
>been using Windows, but were switching to Linux-based tools, hence his
>appearance at our Fest.
>
>I gave him my email address, and forgot about the whole thing - until last
>week, when I got the following email from the guy (Nzola), sent via one of
>his Linux-powered shortwave/email setups deep in rural Mozambique.
>
>Brian.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: KAPASENI at zfds.chirpnet.net <KAPASENI at zfds.chirpnet.net>
>Date: 26 Sep 2006 11:01:00 -0000
>Subject: Greetings from Kapaseni
>To: Nzola Swasisa <nzola1 at yahoo.ca>, Carol Kerr <c-kerr at shaw.ca>,
>davidc at cfh.ca, blackcrow at shaw.ca, mukahanana at shaw.ca, colinadams at hotmail.com,
>fredc at quale.com, wayne at queale.com, lorene.anger at waradoo.fr,
>blurdesign at gmail.com, brent at pinetreeline.org, ketinkoba at yahoo.ca,
>divkwanda at hotmail.com, annaikmackay at hotmail.com, sgragina at shaw.ca,
>gamesetgo at shaw.ca, kapasseni at yahoo.ca, diversity at shaw.ca, cfoley at shaw.ca,
>office at lambrick.com, warren.dixon at ca.schneider-electric.com,
>gaspal at yahoo.com
>
>Hello Friends!
>
>PLEASE, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ADDRESS. I AM LEAVING THIS VILLAGE TODAY.
>RESPOND TO ME TO nzola1 at yahoo.ca
>
>I am very excited today to write to you this email because it originates
>from a remote village called Kapaseni, situated in the Northern Mozambique.
>We panned to install 2 Radio Email stations in Mozambique and they are all
>done, so I thought it was good to send you this email to say that we have
>successfully accomplished our system installations in Mozambique. Rob left
>Mozambique last Sunday for Zambia after the first install in Sena and I
>remained and traveled to Kapaseni to do the last install. It was a 3 hours
>trip on a bike from Sena to Kapaseni because there are no vehicles on that
>road. When I arrived in Kapasseni I had a soar back. I rested for an hour
>than I started installation. It took me 8 hours though I had many helpers. I
>installed a 12 m pole with 6 guy wires, antenna, solar panel, the radio,
>battery and the computer. Today is my second night here in Kapaseni. I am
>being fed with Nshima (corn flour), beans and chicken. I plan to go back to
>Sena this afternoon "another 3 hours trip when I finish training the
>operators here. In Sena I will do more training for one or two days before I
>proceed for back to Ndola, in Zambia to train Radio Email Server
>Administrators before and work on the Server computer before I return to
>Victoria, Canada on October 31, 2006.
>This email is comes to you via the radio wave, about 900 km away from the
>server and finds the internet.
>Thank you very much for your financial, ideas and advise support and we will
>keep in touch. I have a lot of video pictures to show you.
>
>PLEASE, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ADDRESS. I AM LEAVING THIS VILLAGE TODAY.
>RESPOND TO ME TO nzola1 at yahoo.ca
>
>Bye for now,
>Nzola.
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