Ruby on Rails Presentation in Lilongwe, Malawi

There will be a presentation plus discussion on Ruby and Ruby on Rails this Sunday 1st April, 2007 at Kamuzu College of Nursing, Lilongwe Campus from 2 PM.

Mike McKay, a colleague of mine at Baobab Health Partnership, has volunteered to make the presentation after some members of ICT Association of Malawi mailing list showed interest in this programming language and its web framework.

In September last year, Oliver Gadabu, another another developer at Baobab, gave a talk on Ruby on Rails in Blantyre on Software Freedom Day organised by LinuxChix Malawi. That was probably the first public discussion of Ruby and Ruby on Rails in Malawi.

At a Medical Informatics Association of Malawi (MIAM) meeting in Lilongwe on 29th March 2007, Oliver made a presentation on Baobab's ART system which is developed using Ruby on Rails. Mike McKay followed with a brief demonstration of the system.