ok then if this is going to work you will need an agenda of what speakers will talk about in a clearer form so that interested speakers can start volunteering

so you might have a topic called "Design Patterns" for example and try to get someone to make a presentation about it.

Good suggestion.
Guys could you please suggest topics you can present or discuss. The maiden edition of the conference will be announced soon. Interestingly only 2 people have indicated interest so far.

You can post them here on NL or sent it via mail to "nigprogconf@yahoo.com".

Expecting your valuable inputs.

[color=#770077][/color] am interested but i don't have any programming idea, can someone like me also gain fromit

[color=#000099][/color] elomi pls did u teach I T or programming at a giveaway price or who is there who teaches it for freely

The conference should involve sharing computing techniques and advice

its a good idea my simplest advice is to just get it going on a small(er) scale, have an organising committee (though this might backfire) create a blog or website if you don't already have one, set a series of dates and locations so people can attend. the locations don't have to be elaborate, just convenient cafe', restaurant someone's house, or even office etc,

Biggest advice is just do it,

and yes I'm interested,

Can I Help you with something thats bound to be really useful?


make it an online conference and advertise it like a real live conference. Maybe we'll meet on Ymessenger or some other live platform and then get everyone to contribute and at the end we send the transcripts to everyone.

after a few successful web conferences you can proceed to organizing a live one.

hope i am not too late to join? i sign up here finally to be part of this, though am not in Nigeria now but i will be back soon, am still young in programming but believe me i have alot to contribute, sweet idea am in, am loving it already

I HOPE THIS IS NOT ANOTHER PREMIUM IDEA THAT WILL SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET. I never had the time to read all post but guys i am interested in this idea i hope we get started soon. friendehis@yahoo.com is my email just in case

elomi and all whats the latest information
about the conference now?

i'm not a programmer but will do my best if i'm
welcome to make this a reality. i lv to see pple
succeed inwith their dreams

SHALOM

Thank you guys.

Please be informed that there will be a meeting to this effect on Saturday 15th Jan. 2011.

The venue is @ No. 14 Ajao Road, Off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja.
Time 10:00am prompt.
Saturday was chosen due to the busy schedule during Mon-Fri office hours.

Kindly confirm attendance by sending a mail to nigprogconf@yahoo.com

Thank you

elomi:

Thank you guys.

Please be informed that there will be a meeting to this effect on Saturday 15th Jan. 2011.

The venue is @ No. 14 Ajao Road, Off Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja.
Time 10:00am prompt.
Saturday was chosen due to the busy schedule during Mon-Fri office hours.

Kindly confirm attendance by sending a mail to nigprogconf@yahoo.com

Thank you

how do you get admitted into the venue. is it a private resisdent or? what of intruders like people with other motives?

Wats up wit this? How did the meeting go?

^^^^
I also need to know more about that

SHALOM

please what's happened to this noble idea?

.NET

Please i also need to know what happened

SHALOM

i'm an advanced web programmer and it specialist. would be interested. keep all posted

I wud lk to c somtin lk dt in naija. 1luv

i'v always dreamed of this.So what are we waiting for?lets kick off

I think it's a good idea. This way we can get to develop something of our own and not always depend on others. We really have very smart people in Nigeria, all time wasted on the computer to scam people can finally be used on something great. I will gladly want to be involved in making this a success.

Dear friends,
We have successfully registered Software Developers Association (SDA) and secured a domain name www.sda.com.ng (nothing there yet.)

I would like to use this opportunity to thank everybody both software developers etc. for the positive and constructive feedback towards making this a reality. Without your contributions this would not have happened.


Some of the Aims & objectives(extracted from The Constitution - ARTICLE 3) are:-
1. To empower software developers to achieve their potentials through funding, training and retraining.
2. To develop and encourage software development in Nigeria through awareness creation, encourage project development and creativity.
3. To promote a digital knowledge economy through software development.
4. To eradicate poor infrastructure in Nigeria, inadequate funding, inadequate facilities and tools for software development.
5. Effective collaboration of technical know-how, availability of resources, to combat poor or low quality of products and poor sales due to any or all of the above.
etc.

Like we discussed and all agreed. It is a community project and voluntary. It would only succeed if like minds work together for common objective.

I would also like to use this medium to ask Seun to please if possible create a child forum dedicated to SDA pending when the official website comes up. This child forum would be used to deliberate and discuss issues, meeting schedules, project timelines etc. and also collaborate on developing a web portal for the association.

We would be glad to answer any questions/queries you may have.

Thank you.

elomi,

This is noble. Where do we use as the office for the SDA? Maybe we can use your office for now.

Also, are there plans to include those of us who do not reside in Lagos? e.g PortHarcourt, Abuja, etc.?
What are the requirements for membership? I think we need to convene a meeting as soon as possible to kick off this noble idea.


.NET

@.NET Thank you. If we do not start, it won't get started. We met a situation which we think is not ideal and we owe it to ourselves to either change it or leave it the way it is.

With regards to The Secretariat, it is still open. I can not say come and use my office because it might not go down well with all concerned. So first things first. First we should develop medium of communication and interaction then we discuss, agree and decide.

Secondly, membership is voluntary and open to the public preferably software developers and/or related fields including people in business, financial, legal professions.

It would be convenient to register online so I guess that's a route we might eventually take. Location is not a barrier so irrespective of where anybody is, it shouldn't pose a problem et all.

Let me know if there are any other queries/issues.

rgds

I think the next thing for us is how we're going to collaborate on designing/developing the portal for SDA

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I think the next thing for us is how we're going to collaborate on designing/developing the portal for SDA

Good one. That's a challenge. Having a collaboration platform to build a smart collaboration platform.

Any ideas? How can we build the portal effectively without having to meet physically?

Another thing is how can we spread the word to others so as to have a strong team of developers?

Everyday we keep wondering asking ourselves where our Software industry is going. Now there is an opportunity to change it and make a difference.

Guys please.

Just to chip in that developers willing to collaborate on the development of the portal can do so by indicating interest here.

Let us do this for Nigeria.

Thank you.

To spread the news around to other developers, maybe we can use word of mouth, posts on social networks, forums e.t.c. Stating the objectives of SDA.

BOLAJIAJANI thanks. Please guys let the campaign begin. see above some of the aims and objectives.

We can use this URL or use some of the excerpts from this thread.

rgds

Yeah,we should have it so that we can do some little project together.