Thanks for visiting our brand new blog. This is the main resource for news about the Village Diary project, a free and open source (FOSS) software platform designed and built in Cameroon. We plan to use this blog as a way of providing updates on our progress as our team begins work on the project. Along the way, we hope to keep you informed about changes, additions, challenges, events, people, fundraising, deployments and more.

If this is your first visit to our blog and you’re wondering what the Village Diary is all about, stop by our website to learn about our mission, goals, and the story that led to the project’s inception. You can also find some summary information about how it works, or dig into the details of the software requirements over at the developer’s wiki. If you have any news, images or information that you think would be relevant to our project, feel free to get in touch with us with our contact page.

A note about the design: the Village Diary logo and WordPress theme were crafted by veteran designer Michael Beveridge. He’s been in the business of website design and development since the early 90’s, so we knew we were in capable hands. A big requirement was that the design be lightweight enough to enable it to load quickly over the slow connections common to much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

We’ve affectionately dubbed the theme “fufu corn” after a traditional dish from Cameroon’s north west province. We hope you like it. Comments are welcome.