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Guido Sohne, a software developer from Ghana...   Message List  
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In cyberspace, I used to come across Guido Sohne's name so often that
I used to wonder who this guy was! Only after he died, in such an
untimely manner, did I check up and learn more. If you didn't
personally know Guido, like me, here are some links:

Guido Sohne (Ghana)
Guido is a Free Software hacker in Accra, Ghana. Guido Sohne has
fifteen years of development experience, mostly from the self taught
perspective of the exploring hacker. He is able to work with Java,
Perl, Python, C, C++, PHP, Scheme and shell scripts to varying degrees
of effectiveness. Working almost exclusively with free software, he
has a broad knowledge of projects techniques and code bases that will
aid integration of disparate technologies. http://sohne.net/index.html
http://www.ryze.com/go/wgsohne
http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource/participants

Guido on FLickr
Some nice personal photos too
And great visual tourism of central Accra.
http://flickr.com/photos/wgsohne

GS's impressive cv
http://sohne.net/files/CV.pdf

Guido, politics, race, etc
http://200milesup.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/25/801763-hunting-guido-sohne

Ethan Zuckerman on Guido
"The point I found most interesting was Guido's argument that most
African developers are so busy struggling to make ends meet - in an
environment where tech equipment costs 2-4x what it does in Europe and
the US, where technical books are almost nonexistent, where there are
no credit cards to purchase from Amazon - that they don't have time to
share, building code for public consumption."
(Won't agree here. That's no alibi for us in Asia-Africa-LatAm not
sharing! --FN)
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2004/06/13/guido-sohne-at-wos3/

2008/5/12 Eric Osiakwan <eric@...>:


> Well, it means we have to double our efforts on all fronts.
> Tribute is @
http://www.myzongo.com/2008/05/07/a-tribute-to-brother-guido-you-
> have-a-memorial-in-time/

--
Frederick FN Noronha * Independent Journalist
http://fn.goa-india.org * Phone +91-832-2409490
Cell +91-9970157402 (sometimes out of range)
http://www.youtube.com/user/fredericknoronha



Mon May 12, 2008 5:46 pm

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In cyberspace, I used to come across Guido Sohne's name so often that I used to wonder who this guy was! Only after he died, in such an untimely manner, did I...
Frederick "FN" Noronha
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May 14, 2008
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Wow - what a great loss to all of us, and a shock. Like you I have always felt like I have known Guido without actually knowing him personally. So...
Tobias Eigen
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May 14, 2008
2:29 pm

Ah - here is a useful article with more information about Guido, found via flickr, but as is always the case in such sad stories the information is still...
Tobias Eigen
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May 14, 2008
2:30 pm

And one last followup before I go to bed - If someone comes across a good Africa-oriented appreciation/retrospective of Guido's impact on Africa, please let me...
Tobias Eigen
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May 14, 2008
2:30 pm

Dear Tobias, I will be writing this retrospective and will post it to you as soon as it is completed. It is difficult to write because while Guido was driven...
Dorothy K. Gordon
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May 16, 2008
1:17 am

Dear Dorothy, Thank you for taking the initiative to write a retrospective - I am getting the sense that Guido's memory (for all of us) would benefit from a...
Tobias Eigen
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May 16, 2008
3:13 pm

I met Guido in Accra at one of the sessions organized by the Kofi Annan Centre and he clearly stood out in the crowd of otherwise accomplished folks with...
Satish Jha
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May 14, 2008
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