| By Gavin Chait,
on 16 April 2007
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 On Thursday, 19th April, Jimmy Wales - of Wikimedia fame - will be in South Africa to present at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Says Professor Derek Keats of UWC, "A lot of people still seem to be afraid that it’s not sustainable, or that there isn’t enough support for Free and Open Source products. But one of the things we’re aiming to show with the Expo is that there are several very successful open source models out there. All it takes is a very small shift in thinking ... " I have been invited to interview Jimmy on Thursday on behalf of the Cape Argus where I am a business writer. My questions will focus on the long-term sustainability of the open-source movement and the ways in which it can be used by developing nations to leap a generation or two ahead. If you would like to suggest questions of your own for Jimmy Wales please be sure to post them in the comments section.
UWC are quite excited about their speaker list: "Creative Commons founder Prof Lawrence Lessig, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation and CTO of Collab.net Brian Behlendorf, Free and Open Source Software Entrepreneur and instructor in Computing Systems at MIT Philip Greenspun ..." amongst others, and I would recommend that anyone who can get there goes. See also: From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
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