We met up at the Landvetter airport in Gothenburg where we headed for our first flight. This was to be the first in a series of three flights for a total of 25 hours. All flights went well even though long. As we approached the Windhoek airport we looked out the window to see the […]
The 200 computers have now been picked up by the shipping company and are on their way to Namibia! DHL are sponsoring the shipment, big thanks to you ♥. Hopefully the computers will arrive before we do, and hopefully the customs procedure will go smoothly. Only laptops this year –> much smaller freight! See you!
The 20th of april we were at the REACT theme day called Volunteering Engineering. We held a presentation and told the attendees about what we do. REACT is a brand new organisation at Chalmers University of Technology. They know that students and companies want to aid meaningful changes in the world, so they work to […]
Today we made our third and maybe last visit at a sponsor’s office, this time at Opera Software. After a tour and a stop at the coffee and tea machines, we sat down and told Lisa Johansson at Opera all about this year’s project. Opera was eager to sponsor CESA as we are in line […]
Happy Easter to you! These Easter Eggs were given to us by Jessica Gold at Findwise this thursday at their office. Findwise will sponsor our project this year again – thank you! We sat down in one of their meeting rooms with a great view of the city, and discussed how the project is going this […]
Things are starting to get serious. One hundred computers were today delivered by Gothenburg City Västra Hisingen to our garage. This means that the project enters a more technical phase. We have started to create USB-sticks with which we can soon begin to install Offline Wikipedia and other educational software (Edubuntu) on the computers. This is the first […]
Hello friends, last week we were busy writing both exams and sponsor contracts. e-man will sponsor the CESA-project this year too, which we are very grateful for! Joel, Magnus Lindwall, Patricia and Oskar @ the e-man office in Gothenburg. After a quick tour of the office we sat down and explained how the project is […]
Today we met the awesome team managing the IT programme at Chalmers, who have been involved economically and by giving advice throughout the years. We are encouraged by the positive attitude towards our project and are happy that so many parties want to contribute. The management team shared many useful experiences and ideas, from their own […]
Hello everyone, although the past eight weeks have been quiet on the blog the work has continued. The project has taken new directions which we would like to share with you. Today we met our long-term computer donors at Gothenburg City Västra Hisingen, to discuss the need for computers this year. We are happy that […]
We have been feeling a bit like elves, testing all computers, screens and other equipment that were not sent this summer. The broken ones have been sorted out and we are beginning to install edubuntu on the rest. The garage is now cleaned up and under control. Today we had a meeting with Samuel, Head of the […]