This is a video of a short but fun random chat that I had with Michael Pedersen of Uhasibu a couple of weeks ago at the inaugural WordCamp Kenya 2011 that was held at Crayfish Camp in Naivasha. In a nutshell, we talked about the pros and cons of WordPress in Kenya and the rest of Africa as a blogging and business web site platform, as well as why we had opted to attend WordCamp Kenya 2011. Initially, I did NOT plan to post this online but it just seemed to “work” really well when I watched it (and also got Michael’s consent) so here it is! Enjoy 
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This weekend I attended the first ever WordCamp Kenya at Crayfish Camp in Naivasha. The event which is focused on all things WordPress was well attended with over 100 participants, mostly from Nairobi. I had an opportunity to interview Kelvin Jayanoris who is one of the founders behind DukaPress.
DukaPress is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress that has been developed from scratch in Kenya. DukaPress was launched in August 2010 and since then has been downloaded more than 20,000 times from WordPress. It is NOT the most popular e-commerce plugin (yet) for WordPress but it is doing really well by being adopted by businesses globally, even though it was initially developed for businesses in Kenya to deploy e-commerce on their web sites.
DukaPress was built from the ground up by Kelvin and his team to offer Kenyan businesses a localized and no frills WordPress e-commerce plugin that could be used for all sorts of payment platforms including Safaricom’s M-Pesa as well as other International platforms such PayPal. In the interview, Kelvin told me that they make money from DukaPress when their mostly International customers engage them to do simple or extensive customizations to meet their unique e-commerce needs. You can find out more about Kelvin and DukaPress in the interview below. Enjoy!
I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of WordPress 3.0. Finally, this happened last week on the 17th June 2010 and I am pleased to say that I upgraded immediately I got the news. WordPress 3.0 is the latest release of the world-leading blogging software which I happen to also use on this blog. In addition, WordPress 3.0 adds a whole new raft of features and functionalities that make it far more capable that just a great blogging software – the latest version of WordPress is now a fully fledged content management system (CMS) that is suited for any kind of web site you may want to build. It has far greater control for developers and what they can do with it – from themes, backgrounds, plug-ins, menus, etc. Best of all, one can run more than one blog or web site on a single installation! But don’t just take my word for it, for more details on whats so great about WordPress 3.o, have a look at this video below: