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[Miles <msdomdonner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: (WAS : dev peeps needed) :: A Free software for Cybercafes 
using Linux distributions
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:52:07 +0200
From: Mélodie <meets@xxxxxx>
To: Miles <msdomdonner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hello,

After a few years learning to remaster PCLinuxOS, I, Mélodie (melodie), 
came back to the
Ubuntu community and started to remix Ubuntu.

My aim is to make systems easy while super snappy for all, and my 
favorite combo is
Openbox with openbox-menu and obsession, along with appropriate 
configuration files.

Back in 2012 when I started to learn howto remix Ubuntu, I stumbled upon 
an idea related
to the very nice Cybercoffee application Mkahawa, which was a fork of a 
previous
application, Cafe Con Leche : why not remix Ubuntu to create a Mkahawa 
Ubuntu version
with Openbox ? So I did that. It was fun, it was working, I tested at 
home. I could not
test more. ^^

https://sourceforge.net/p/mkahawa/wiki/Home/

“mkahawa is a swahili word for Cafe. mkahawa builds on the small but 
fast Cafe Con Leche
(CCL) - the light, but ultra-fast C++ Internet Cafe Management Software 
for Linux and
Windows. This is but a continuation of CCL development in just another 
form.”

I was looking at what goes on at Mkahawa lately, and not much it seems: 
the dev who has
taken over seems to not bring more work in it lately.
https://sourceforge.net/p/mkahawa/code/HEAD/tree/

It won't compile in Ubuntu Trusty. My fear is that this very nicely 
working program
(server and client) which once compiled, are really easy to install and 
use, will be lost.


This is why, knowing that cybercafes in some countries in Africa could 
still have the use
for good programs meant to handle the time of the customers and running 
in GNU/Linux
boxes, I thought I would say a word about it to Miles (aka Kilos) for 
him to pass on the
message to the Ubuntu Africa communities : this program needs devs, 
testers, users, and
generally speaking a community around it!

Here are the places to go, for all information:
http://mkahawa.sourceforge.net
https://sourceforge.net/p/mkahawa/discussion/955736/thread/981abb29/

Some archives of the program compiled for Ubuntu Precise can be found here
http://phillw.net/isos/bento-ubuntu-remix/misc/BentoVillageProject/Mkahawa/

If opened as root in the console in the root ( / ) of the distribution, 
it will be
installed and ready to use.

My best regards,
Mélodie



On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:13:17 +0200
Miles <msdomdonner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> Has anyone got the time to take on this app and compile it for 14.04 and
> 16.04
> It seems the project is dying so new blood is needed to revive it and
> keep it going.
> http://mkahawa.sourceforge.net
> https://sourceforge.net/p/mkahawa/discussion/955736/thread/981abb29/
> The packages for precise can be found here
>
> http://phillw.net/isos/bento-ubuntu-remix/misc/BentoVillageProject/Mkahawa/
> Thank you
> Miles


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JM <meets@xxxxxx>