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Since we are going to Chesongoch on Tuesday, we first concentrated on making the notebooks and two barebone desk computers work. Whereas the notebooks went smoothly with Ubuntu 18.04 (with a little “forcepae” as mentioned before) there was a problem with the ACER monitors which, controlled by the barebones, showed an unreadable image on the screens. We were already exchanging […]
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Today (Wednesday) is the last day in Ruaraka. Birgit & Michael will be heading to Masai Mara National Park, and when they return they’re going to spend one more night in Karen, where they will meet with Dr. Walk and his wife (who are arriving in Ruaraka on February 8th). Both classroom are now fully operational, except two computers which […]
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For many years Linux4Afrika has supported St. Scholastica Catholic School of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing in Ruaraka, Nairobi. Invited by Linux4Afrika Sr. Emily, principal of the school, was our guest for some days at the end of March. A considerable and multicoloured program had been planned for Sr. Emily by the host families Scholtz and Merkel: trips with […]
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After managing to overcome the last few technical difficulties thanks to Hans-Peter and having Stefan further initiate the sisters into the “secrets” of Libreoffice, Firefox etc. over in Karen, we were ready to set off on our way back to Ruaraka on Thursday afternoon. Sr. Christiane decided to join our travel group, and this time round we were taken right […]
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It’s Friday today. The students at St. Scholastica celebrated School Mass in the afternoon, along with the graduates who had received their final grades the day before. Which meant that our Friday Cinema (in the past we’d always brought a movie for the students to watch) which we’d planned to do in the cafeteria had to be canceled – but […]
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