https://open.enockseth.co/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Enock Seth Nyamador https://open.enockseth.co/papermod-cover.png https://open.enockseth.co/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 24 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/switch-default-browser-i3wm/ Sun, 24 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/switch-default-browser-i3wm/ i3wm is by far my most used Window Manager (WM), who cares about Desktop Environments (DEs) :). On DEs such as XFCE, KDE, GNOME, LXDE, etc it is always by a click at a button. It’s not the job of a WM do same since it’s not a DE. Hence after a few web searches. The solution below worked for me. Since I manage my login, WM and DE choice with . https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-bolgatanga/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:20:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-bolgatanga/ Travelling by road is fun and sometime not depending on the distance, time and comfort. On September 19, I left Accra heading towards Bolgatanga for the second time in my life, the first time was through our mappy and adenterous trip across Ghana. Sitting in a bus for 14 good hours on bumpy and smooth roads for the love of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and spreading it. Myself and Nii Okai represented Linux Accra in Bolga; supporting and helping bring the celebration of FOSS to Bolga and the Northern part of Ghana for the first time. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/pycon-africa-2019-ghana/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/pycon-africa-2019-ghana/ First edition of Pycon Africa took place in Accra in August 2019. I had the opportunity to talk about Python and GIS Development with my talk titled “Geo+Python: A Shallow Dive into GIS Development”. This basically a quick introduction to GIS for Python developers and also highlighting Open Source Geospatial tools and packages that can be used by PyDevs in their projects. The presention consisted mostly: Introduction to GIS; Data types, projections, etc OSGeo: QGIS, GDAL, GeoNode, etc OpenStreetMap; the free and colloborative map of the world Some geospatial libraries Find my slides here https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-2019-ghana/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 23:29:44 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-2019-ghana/ Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business - in short, everywhere! – Software Freedom Day. SFD celebrations in Accra, Ghana over the past 15 years have been organized by Linux Accra. AITI-KACE and ISOC Ghana Chapter are supporting this year to bring SFD to Bolgatanga and Sunyani too. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/traveling-ghana-open-source-way/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/traveling-ghana-open-source-way/ We travelled across Ghana the Open Source creating open data and street-level images on OpenStreetMap and Mapillary https://open.enockseth.co/posts/art-feminism-wikimedia-ghana/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/art-feminism-wikimedia-ghana/ Arts and Feminism Wikipedia Session with Wikimedia Ghana in Accra 2019 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/sotm-africa-2019-logo-contest/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:20:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/sotm-africa-2019-logo-contest/ Design State of the Map Africa 2019 logo https://open.enockseth.co/posts/2018-in-review/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:37:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/2018-in-review/ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Laozi 2018 has been a great, open and year of communities of practise for me. As I sit here in my grandmothers house in Aflao where I was born. I have been away for long, as my mum always do on every New Year’s Eve we go to church at St. Benedictus RC Church, Viepe. Guess what happened when I called her that am home; she said hurry and come to church. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/speaking-at-republica-accra-2018/ Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/speaking-at-republica-accra-2018/ re:publica the German conference for the internet society was in Accra, Ghana and Africa https://open.enockseth.co/posts/paratransit-workshop-paris/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/paratransit-workshop-paris/ Second DigitalTransport4Africa meeting and workshop in Paris https://open.enockseth.co/posts/wikipedia-fifafrica-wikimedia-ghana/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 07:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/wikipedia-fifafrica-wikimedia-ghana/ I have been a Wikipedian and Wikimedian since 2012. And a volunteer at Wikimedia Ghana User Group since. Representing at BarCamps to community events and creating awareness about shared knowledge. Wikipedia 101: A practical Session@Enock4seth #FIFAfrica18#InternetFreedomAfrica pic.twitter.com/KiXtaG2xvo — #WAMECA2018 IS COMING!!! (@TheMFWA) September 28, 2018 I am glad to be back in action after some years of been away due to school and dedicating most of my time to [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/about) and [WikiData](https://www. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/nvday18-ghana-volunteer-program/ Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/nvday18-ghana-volunteer-program/ National Volunteer Day (NVDay) taking place during Founders Day and around September 21 since 2013 to promote and encourage volunteerism among Ghanaians. This year NVDay was once again successful with 53 activities registered and many other activities. Personally volunteering has taught and helped me in several ways I never imagined. All I was happy with is making impact and seeing my works benefit and put smiles into peoples hearts. Preceding NVDay 18; I was privileged to talk about volunteerism and the Ghana Volunteer Program with Ato on Kwese TV. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-18-accra-ghana/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/software-freedom-day-18-accra-ghana/ SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business - in short, everywhere! – Software Freedom Day In Accra SFD have been organised by the Linux Accra Users Group for more than 5 years. Mr. Asante one the founding and very supportive members’ of Linux Accra started the day with a talk about why Software Freedom to open source doesn’t mean you don’t get money or less insecure software. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/zanzibar-mapbox-workshop/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/zanzibar-mapbox-workshop/ Right before FOSS4G 2018 closing ceremony I had to join the Open Cities Africa team en route Zanzibar. First time travelling from Dar es Salaam to Stone Town and you know right; ferry of course :D and it was my first ferry ride too. The purpose for travelling to Zanzibar was for a 2 day Mapbox workshop on builing web maps. Thanks to the Zanzibar Mapping Initiative (ZMI) we had great geospatial data from high definition drone images to spreadsheet data combined with yours truly OpenStreetMap for our workshop. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/linux-accra-sfd-18/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/linux-accra-sfd-18/ Ever wondered what all these Open Source and Linux stuffs are? It’s time to jail break. Software Freedom Day is a global celebration of Free and Open Source Software. Over 1000 volunteer groups in over 120 countries all around the globe will be celebrating the Software Freedom Day every year in Septermber. Software Freedom Day is aimed to educate the public and encourage the use of free and open source software. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/foss4g-2018-experience-in-summary/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:11:00 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/foss4g-2018-experience-in-summary/ FOSS4G is the annual largest global conference bringing together Open Source geospatial ethusiasts, hackers, developers and everyone together. FOSS4G 2018 took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This was my first FOSS4G as a participant and member of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC). This was my second time travelling to Dar and same venue for FOSS4G, Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre. It was a déjà vu. Meeting new, old and virtal friends Away From Keyboard (AFK). https://open.enockseth.co/posts/python-loves-geo-pycon-ghana/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:33:33 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/python-loves-geo-pycon-ghana/ Great pleasure was it for me talking about how Python loves Geo during PyCon Ghana at the University of Ghana. It was great talking "Python and GIS" today @PyconGhana featuring @QGIS @GeoNode @OSGeo @openstreetmap; @OSMGhana & @youthmappers. FOSS Communities & Networking is very important. #NaturalEarthData #GDAL #PyConGhana #GISTribe #FOSS4G cc @lusdavo @wgeary pic.twitter.com/FuVvu3soWn — Enock Seth Nyamador #NVDay18 (@Enock4seth) 11 août 2018 My talk was basically about an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), some Python libraries and it’s uses in the geospatial world https://open.enockseth.co/posts/ghost-2-jekyll/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 02:56:36 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/ghost-2-jekyll/ Hello Readers, Is been a while. Lost control of my local Ghost environment and have been lazy to work it out. Today am switching over to Jekyll. It was easy and quick to setup. Forking Indigo theme and using ghost2jekyll.py to generate jekyll posts from ghost-dev.db. Finally ~`jekyll serve` works 😀 Time to leave ghost @JeanHuit 😉 — Enock Seth Nyamador (@Enock4seth) 8 avril 2017 Goodbye Ghost it was fun using and messing aroud you. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/2015-in-review/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:28:22 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/2015-in-review/ One local proverb in Ewe states: “Even if it takes years it definitely will be called tomorrow”. December 31 is that day of the year that is farthest from January 1, it is rather the opposite between January and December. 2015 was not an easy year as well. It was rough and smooth. My 2015 was a year of getting addicted to the Open Source Way in every aspect of my life. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/openstreetmap-workshop-in-umat-tarkwa/ Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:11:12 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/openstreetmap-workshop-in-umat-tarkwa/ By now you should all know am great fun of maps, simply put and am a GIS enthusiast. OpenStreetMap is one great project and community that has nurtured that interest of mine. Am back to school after a long vacation. On Friday October 16, 2015, Myself and some students most from the Geomatics Engineering Department of the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa were very glad to have Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) board member Severin Manard with us. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/hot-activation-workshop-dar-es-salaam/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:35:15 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/hot-activation-workshop-dar-es-salaam/ I was priviledge to be part of the first Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) workshop that took place in Dar Es Salaam as part of the Africa Open Data Conference (AODC). We all know about Google Maps; right? How many have heard of OpenStreetMap? Well OpenStreetMap is a free map of the world that anyone can contribute to; just like Wikipedia of maps. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), an NGO that works to train, coordinate, and organize mapping on OpenStreetMap for humanitarian, disaster response, and economic development, has mobilized volunteers from around the world to help map since the Haiti earthquake in 2010. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/volunteerism-at-barcamp-takoradi-2015/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:14:24 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/volunteerism-at-barcamp-takoradi-2015/ Greetings, This post has taken too long to be put together not because I decided to to so intentionally but conditions beyond my control but rest assured all is up and running. BarCamps in Ghana are free networking and mentoring events that provide people; especially youths and entrepreneurs the platform to shawcase themselves, what they’re doing and meet others of same interest. I was at BarCamp for three reasons Met old and new networks To talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects To get mentored It was great to meet new and old folks. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/national-volunteer-day-2015/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:12:14 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/national-volunteer-day-2015/ ORGANIZE OR JOIN A NATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY ACTIVITY AROUND SEPTEMBER 21ST The Ghana Volunteer Program (GVP) is a program being run by the GhanaThink Foundation, an NGO based both in Ghana and the USA. National Volunteer Day, which falls around the 21st of September each year, is our major activity. It was instituted as part of GVP in 2013. This year, the event falls within the 19th – 21st Sept 2015 time frame. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/codeforghana-opendata-hack-night/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:53:25 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/codeforghana-opendata-hack-night/ Greetings. Over the weekend (31 July - 1 August) myself and other Ghanaian OpenData enthusiasts and hackers were present at the OpenData Hackathon organized by CodeforGhana and NITA. It was great and fun but one thing I really was disappointed about was the absence of persons from NITA. I was expecting them as the hackathon was in partnership with them. I really had lot of questions for them though. It was all about OpenData and most datasets used were downloaded from Data. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/first-openstreetmap-workshop-ghana/ Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:06:25 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/first-openstreetmap-workshop-ghana/ Participants after workshop. Photographer: Sylvester On June 27, 2015, I was in Madina, Accra for and OpenStreetMap (OSM) workshop, this was the first time people in Ghana have gathered to edit and discuss OSM. This was in relation on the Accra Floods and putting Ghana on the map. Thanks to CodeforGhana for providing the platform. Maps are very important in our daily lives. Time spend on the phone asking for directions to a location can be eliminated if you know the location’s address; say; 37 Golden Hills Avenue, Tarkwa. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/volunteer-sign-up-ghana-volunteer-program-gvp/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:54:34 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/volunteer-sign-up-ghana-volunteer-program-gvp/ The GhanaThink Foundation’s Ghana Volunteer Program is a hub for volunteer activities in Ghana. It was born out of the success of the first National Volunteer Day. GVP has been able to organize four (4) successful National Volunteer Day (#NVDay) across Ghana. NVDay takes place from 21 - 23 September of every year. Currently GVP is creating a database of volunteers across Ghana. What is the purpose of this database? https://open.enockseth.co/posts/summary-of-barcamp-tema-2015/ Sun, 31 May 2015 09:51:51 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/summary-of-barcamp-tema-2015/ BarCamp Tema 2015 was a FREE networking and mentoring organized by The GhanaThink Foundation. It took place at the Tema Rotary Club Center. It was my first BarCamp for this year and my third time at BarCamp Tema. The theme for this year’s BarCamp Tema was: Create, Impact, Sustain Speed Mentoring is K at BarCamps. I was with only one mentor, you know why? Because she’s from @TigoGhana, Gifty Bingley. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/life-at-gold-hall-umat/ Thu, 21 May 2015 19:12:49 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/life-at-gold-hall-umat/ Last year I became a student of the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. As a resident student, I was assigned Gold Hall which is under the Chamber of Mines Hall as my hall of residence for Year 1. As the name sounds one might be thinking, Wow! Gold Hall! at first mention. I’ll like to use this opportunity to tell you just how it was during my stay. Walking to Gold Hall. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/why-i-choose-ghost/ Wed, 20 May 2015 15:51:13 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/why-i-choose-ghost/ Greetings, In my last post I said I’ll share with you why I decided to use Ghost looking at all the free blogging platforms around, such as Blogger, Worpress and the rest. Yes I know, I have a blog on Blogger why I used to share my ideas and thoughts. I can login and write a blog post any where thanks to Google. Since Ghost runs on Node.js, I have it set up on my laptop running Linux Mint 17. https://open.enockseth.co/posts/welcome-to-my-new-blog/ Tue, 12 May 2015 01:58:11 +0000 https://open.enockseth.co/posts/welcome-to-my-new-blog/ Hello and welcome to my new home on the Internet. This blog is powered by Ghost and on Github static pages. For 7 days now I've been trying to make 'npm start' work on Linux Mint 17.1 for #Ghost but no way. :( #nodejs is installed and running well. — Enock Seth Nyamador (@Enock4seth) May 9, 2015 After days of web searches, installs - uninstalls, getting in to dependency hell and others, I was able to successfully set up Ghost on my local machine running Linux Mint 17.