Software Freedom Day Pretoria, South Africa
Mission
- Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free and open source software.
- Our aim for SFD 2014 is to engage with and encourage computer users, local businesses, startups and other groups to use free software and promote the philosophy.
- We provide a friendly and accessible community to learn about and discuss free software.
Where
- The Station lounge is 50m from the Pretoria Gautrain Platform
- There's Wifi
3 Places to grab something to eat and drink (Vida e Caffe / McDonalds / Fish & Chips)
Who
- Probably you, you are here already. All you need to do is choose the red pill or the blue pill
Place
- Where: Station Lounge, Pretoria Gautrain Station
- When: Saturday, 20 September 2014
- Times: 9:00 - 14:00
- Free of charge, Space limited
Facebook event: CLICK HERE
Google+ Event: CLICK HERE
Getting there
by Train
by Car
Time line
Timeline |
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9:00 |
Registration and grabbing Coffee |
10:00 |
Opening & OpenSUSE Build Service |
10:15 |
Docker |
10:30 |
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10:45 |
Open Hybrid Cloud |
11:00 |
Protecting your Privacy with Free Software |
11:15 |
Break |
11:30 |
The battle for Open Access |
11:45 |
Be Sensible, Use Ansible |
12:00 |
ELK - Log Analysis |
12:15 |
Building a Business using Open Source Software |
12:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 |
Map Reduce with Bash |
13:45 |
ownCloud Your own Cloud 9 |
14:00 |
Close |
Orgs helping us
eConsultant (confirmed) - Fedora (confirmed)
- House4Hack (confirmed)
- Jumping Bean (confirmed)
- LinuxWarehouse (confirmed)
- LSD (confirmed)
- Obsidian (confirmed)
- RedHat (confirmed)
- Suse (confirmed)
HackRooms
Hardware - Jozi-JUG and House4Hack
- available
Speakers
SPEAKERS |
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Contact |
Topic |
Description |
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Alan McKinnon |
Building a Business using Open Source Software |
The pitfalls and the shining stars |
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Bennie Kahler-Venter |
ELK - Log Analysis |
Do amazing things with Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana |
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Guillaume Belrose |
Be sensible, use Ansible |
In this talk, I will give a quick overview of Ansible (http://docs.ansible.com), a radically simple open source configuration management tool with almost no learning curve. Via playbooks, Ansible allows you to easily automate the configuration of Linux (and Windows) hosts, from 1 to thousands of nodes. I will briefly touch on the core Ansible concepts and talk about / demo things you can do with it. |
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Johann Els |
OpenSUSE Build Service |
The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It makes it possible to release software for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS reference server, which we use to build our distribution, currently has over 35.000 users that are building over 200.000 packages for 22 base distributions on 6 architectures. |
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Karl Fischer |
ownCloud - Your ownCloud 9 |
Quick overview of ownCloud, Setup and Use |
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Leti Kleyn |
The battle for Open Access |
Universities around the world build institutional research repositories using open source software in an attempt to make available research and research findings that was funded by the taxpayer. International conglomerate publishers, copyright laws and other barriers hinder end-users from obtaining access to this information. What we need is the following: a way to expose the publishers for over charging on journal subscriptions (an academic kind of wikileaks), working around the loop-holes in copyright laws (finding ways to publish material in other formats), investing in open sources software that works for the purpose (65% of institutional repositories world wide run on DuraSpace but is just so-so), creating awareness about Open Access (we all want that information for free!), talking about the ethics of Open Access (why are we paying over and over for the same things?). |
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Mark Clarke |
Map Reduce with Bash |
How one Univesity's Nuclear Research Department is using simple bash scripting to do Monte-Carlo analysis. |
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Ross Addis |
Open Hybrid Cloud |
How enterprises are transforming their traditional IT infrastructure to "cloud" to achieve more flexibility, agility and innovation within their data centre, all using open source software. |
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Stefan Lesicnik |
Platform as a Service (PAAS) This lightning talk will talk cover Openshift, a PAAS solution by Red Hat. We will create a small PHP application, make some changes and push it up via git and it should work (tm) |
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Tim Haak |
Docker |
Intro to docker what it is and why you may want to use it |
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Walter Leibbrandt |
Protecting your privacy with Free Software |
In the face of constantly changing communications, increasingly pervasive monitoring and corporate interests, it has become ever more difficult to protect our digital privacy. This talk will explain why it is important to protect our privacy, how Free Software can be used to this end, and the advantages it holds over proprietary solutions. Tinfoil hats optional. |
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* The Results CLICK HERE!
Volunteers
- For 2 Breakaway hack rooms
- Geeks that can explain technologies like Centos / GIT / Openstack / Ubuntu / Docker / Raspberry Pi / Hardware Hacking
Technology Volunteers |
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Technology |
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Francis Viviers |
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Gavin McDougall |
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Jaco Stroebel |
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Johann Els |
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JP Pitout |
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Karl Fischer |
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Nico Michael |
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Richard Kolb |
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Robert Graham |
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