CMS Africa Summit around the Web

• The Bloggers association is pleased to announce we have partnered with CMS Africa Summit and will be present at this year's conference. The conference is set to take place on Fri 7th and Sat 8th March 2014, at Strathmore University, Nairobi.
• Meet Magento will also be represented at the CMS AFRICA SUMMIT 2014.
• We're gearing up for another big year in 2014. We kicked off the festivities in January with Happiness Bars at NMX and LA Uncubed, and in March we'll be expanding our reach into conferences in Africa (CMS Africa in Nairobi, Kenya) and South America (JSConf in Montevideo, Uruguay). We look forward to engaging with users in more regions around the world!
• Christian Müller has been allocated a specific evangelism budget. Ben will check together with Christian how best to use this budget. A first opportunity would be the CMS Africa Summit 2014.
• Ben van 't Ende will be at the following events. Please stop by and come and talk to me. Drop me a line on Twitter @benvantende or send me a mail to let me know you are coming.
• CMS Africa goes to Nairobi, Kenya. CMS AFRICA, an organization which creates awareness on various open source CMSs is partnering with Kenya’s premier Business Institute of higher learning, Strathmore University, to host the CMS Africa Summit.

Nairobi hosts the first CMS Africa Summit.

CMS AFRICA, an organization which creates awareness on various open source CMSs is partnering with Kenya's premier Business Institute of higher learning, Strathmore University, to host the CMS Africa Summit.

Businesses are concerned about issues of customization, security enhancements and bugs which they say in most cases are not properly looked into by web builders. This has resulted in incomplete websites with gaping security holes that have left thousands of websites unusable or easily attacked by prowling hackers. This is a threat to e-commerce where a majority of businesses frown on investing in Open Source management systems.

Oduor Jagero, the Lead at CMS Africa says, "It's an opportunity for people involved in Open Source to meet experts and founders of these CMSs. It's also an opportunity to exchange contacts, learn from each other, and take your business to the next level".

On Open Source, OSM's Paul Orwig, the President of OSM (Open Source Matters), says, "Open source gives new and small companies access to powerful tools that allow them to compete successfully against larger companies. It (Open Source) allows all companies to increase profitability by enabling them to focus more of their resources, expertise and creativity on serving their customers better, instead of purchasing, developing or supporting more complicated underlying technologies."

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