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December 21, 2007 • 6:28 am 0

First Ever: Nairobi Facebook Developer Garage

Now this is exciting! The following excerpt is taken from marketforchange:

The University of Nairobi’s Department of Informatics has agreed to co-host the first-ever Facebook “Developer Garage” in East Africa, in partnership with Market for Change. Facebook, a popular social utility based in Silicon Valley, will partially sponsor the event. Developer Garage Nairobi will bring together approximately 100 computer science students, faculty and local developers to discuss ways to use the Facebook Platform to build commercially viable applications and learn more about coding on the Platform.

Now aint that just cool!!! Here are some resources on the same:

Find out more here!

And the wiki here!

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