Good morning to you, I am from South Africa and we were discussing linking up the various African countries the other night.

We use irc > freenode > #ubuntu-za and mailing list  ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com to stay in contact, and grow ubuntu in this manner. We have 2 members on the ubuntu-dev team and another python programmer who has a package in the repos. On our irc channel we are also available for online help to any linux users anywhere. We have members on other linux distributions as well, such as, archlinux,  redhat and some others. We also have members in the Netherlands Belguim the UK and other countries. please feel free to join us and maybe have a contact person on our irc channel