OpenCafePhotos

OpenCafe fire

2006-06-22T02:43:00.000-07:00

Another old tree is cut down

2006-06-21T10:02:00.000-07:00

Potchefstroom is a small town with lots of beautiful trees all over town.

All the streets are full of small old houses each with its own character.

Recently they have started to demolish more and more old houses and cut down trees to make way for new student housing areas.

Sad really sad.

The Aardklop park

2006-06-21T10:00:00.000-07:00

OpenCafe sky today

2006-06-17T07:50:00.000-07:00

And our new bench has finally arrived

2006-06-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

The fireplace

2006-06-08T03:57:00.000-07:00

Artist teaching artist

2006-06-04T09:50:00.000-07:00

Netanya's beads

2006-06-04T04:32:00.000-07:00

Filming lessons

2006-06-04T04:18:00.000-07:00

In May 2005 during the Creative Commons visit Brian Quist of Global Griot Productions was asked to film the event - later on he came back to do an interview with Netanya as well.

While he was busy preparing - he showed Adam all about the basics of filming.

Learning commons animation

2006-06-04T03:58:00.000-07:00

The Learning commons team decided to use our photo as part of their training material entitled "Copyright, copyleft and everything in between".

Creative Commons day at the cafe (May 2005)

2006-06-04T03:32:00.000-07:00

Lawrence Lessig and Heather Ford of Creative Commons visited the cafe a few days before the launch of Creative Commons South Africa.

It was a great day - we discussed a lot of topics around open content, possible use of the Freedom Toaster and ccMixter in South Africa.

The launch of ccSA was a very important day for the OpenCafe since our first ArtMarketOnline artist's book was exhibited during the event - Netanya was one of the first artists in South Africa to publish under a Creative Commons license.

New decoration for the training room

2006-06-02T07:27:00.000-07:00

( http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti/ )

Wow these guys are busy:-)

2006-06-02T07:22:00.000-07:00

Stoep life

2006-06-02T07:18:00.000-07:00

Mpho's birthday

2006-06-02T07:14:00.000-07:00

NgomaVuma Afrika

2006-06-02T07:04:00.000-07:00

Jamming on the stoep

2006-06-02T07:00:00.000-07:00

21 October 2004 - OpenCafe launch day

2006-06-02T06:52:00.000-07:00

OpenCafe sky

2006-06-01T23:14:00.000-07:00

Firedance

2006-06-01T11:19:00.000-07:00

Netanya has been the first artist we worked with - we taught her computer skills - helped her set up her own site. We are lucky to have met her - she is an unbelievably creative artist.

OpenCafe kids

2006-06-01T11:15:00.000-07:00

Playing the talking drum

2006-06-01T10:55:00.000-07:00

This has also become one of our favourite photos. Music and instruments play an important role at the cafe - we give free basic music classes, we jam together during our open days, we play guitar and violin to relax after a long day .... and most recently - we have been working together with a local percussion group - NgomaVuma Africa - who have joined our art project.

Software Freedom Day 2004

2006-06-01T10:23:00.000-07:00

This was our first official event in the new location on Dwars street - first event in the new house, first time with 15 work stations (thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation) with Mandrake Linux newly installed. It was a great day - we didn't have that many visitors but it didn't actually matter - we were just happy sitting there wondering about the future of this venture.

Welcome to the OpenCafe photoblog!

2006-06-01T10:16:00.000-07:00

We have gathered quite a lot of photos since 2001 - that is when we started working on this project. So why not tell the story using photos .... here they are :-)