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Paul Scott
Senior Developer, DSTV Online

Website | @paulscott56 | Attendee Directory Profile

I am currently employed by the University of the Western Cape as Chief Software Architect for the AVOIR network (http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/), as well as the manager of the Free Software Innovation Unit based (http://fsiu.uwc.ac.za/) at UWC (http://www.uwc.ac.za/).

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Botany, from the University of Port Elizabeth. I have many interests including Geographical Information Systems, Botany, Computer Science and Free Software. I have created and contributed to many Free Software projects and at any one time, am working on around 10 different FOSS projects collaboratively with a global community.

I have a strong interest in e-learning and teaching, using Free Software, and have contributed greatly to the AVOIR network and projects. I have a passion for coding and a passion for capacity buiding and skills transfer.

Sessions

11:35am Friday, 07/24/2009

Sex, Drugs and XMPP

Emerging Topics, Mobile, PHP, Programming, Python, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J1/J4

Paul Scott (DSTV Online)

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XMPP is a cheap, low bandwidth alternative to the web in bandwidth poor countries. This talk will show how we have used XMPP networks to address social problems like gansterism, drug abuse and HIV AIDS. Read more.

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Paul Scott Senior Developer, DSTV Online