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 2015 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

• 3 Places to grab something to eat and drink (Vida e Caffe / McDonalds / Fish & Chips)

Who

• Hackers, Hippies, Trouble makers, SysAdmins, Developers, Gurus, Padawans, All Humans, even Emacs Users

Place

• Where: Station Lounge, Pretoria Gautrain Station
• When: Saturday, 19 September 2015
• Times: 9:00 - 14:00
• Free of charge, Space limited

• Facebook event: CLICK HERE

Getting there

by Train

by Car

Google Map

== Agenda ==

• 9:15 Opening
• 9:25 Seapharo Phala - Open Source in Government
• 9:45 Dave Russell - Open Source and the Machine, Microsofts movement to more Open Software.
• 10:05 Leti Kleyn - Who is screwing with access to research you paid for?
• 10:25 Break
• 10:40 Aslam Raffee - Open Internet. The Copyright Amendment bill and Intellectual Property.

• 11:00 Shahn Van Zyl - OpenSource Assessments

• 11:20 Tim Haak - Bringing docker into your life
• 11:40 Henti Smith - Introduction to Bacula
• 12:00 Break
• 12:30 Nevar Fourie - Ethereum

• 12:50 Mark Clarke - Introduction to React a JavaScript Framework for Web Front-Ends

• 13:10 Ross Addis - Software defined Data Center
• 13:30 Closing

Contact

• Tweet me : @kmf

• Facebook : http://facebook.com/karlfischer

• G+ : http://google.com/+KarlFischer

URL to share with Friends

• http://sfd.org.za

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