## page was renamed from 2014/SouthAfrica/Pretoria = 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 == {{https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WqIqr6z9YPk/U-UMNncSdII/AAAAAAAA-J8/GKnzVMXwSiM/w1171-h878-no/TheStationLounge.jpg|alt less than 50m walk|width="700"}} * Where: Station Lounge, Pretoria Gautrain Station * When: Saturday, 20 September 2014 * Times: 10:00 - 14:00 * Free of charge, Space limited * Facebook event: [[https://www.facebook.com/events/733653976670192/|CLICK HERE]] * Google+ Event: [[https://plus.google.com/events/c6vcflr0ucsepo8576pf08nlek0|CLICK HERE]] == Volunteers == * For 2 Breakaway hack rooms * Geeks that can explain technologies like Centos / GIT / Openstack / Ubuntu / Docker / Raspberry Pi / Hardware Hacking * Speakers .... limited slots. == Orgs helping us == * <> [[http://econsultant.co.za/|eConsultant]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://fedoraproject.org/|Fedora]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://www.house4hack.co.za|House4Hack]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://www.jumpingbean.co.za/|Jumping Bean]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://linuxwarehouse.co.za/|LinuxWarehouse]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://www.lsd.co.za/|LSD]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://www.obsidian.co.za/|Obsidian]] (confirmed) * <> [[http://www.mongodb.org/|MongoDB]] (Not-Yet) * <> [[http://www.redhat.com/|RedHat]] (confirmed) * <> [[https://www.suse.com/|Suse]] (confirmed) == HackRooms == * Hardware - Jozi-JUG and House4Hack * available == Speakers to be voted on by you the public == * Please note this list is growing ... we'll accept submissions till Monday 1 September 2014 * Voting Starts Tuesday 2 September 2014 until Friday 5 September ||||||||||'''SPEAKERS'''|| || || Name ||Contact || Topic|| Description|| ||{{attachment:Albert.jpg}} || Albert Nel || http://www.lsd.co.za || Graphics in the open source world || Nowadays anyone can create eye popping graphics, whether it be animated or stills, vectors or raster, 2 or 3D. Gone are the days that one needs to either pay for expensive software packages... or be a little pirate. With open source packages like GIMP, Inkscape and Blender, just about everyone can now join in.|| ||{{attachment:Bennie.jpg}} || Bennie Kahler-Venter|| http://www.abrocha.co.za|| ELK - Log Analysis || Do amazing things with Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana|| ||{{attachment:Guillaume.jpg}}|| Guillaume Belrose || http://kafecho.blogspot.com|| 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.|| ||{{attachment:Johann.jpg}}|| Johann Els || http://www.suse.com || OpenSUSE Build Service || coming soon|| ||{{attachment:Ross.jpg}}|| Ross Addis || http://www.redhat.com || Open Hybrid Cloud || coming soon|| ||{{attachment:StefanL.jpg}}|| Stefan Lesicnik || http://www.lsd.co.za || OpenShift|| Coming soon|| ||{{attachment:Stephan.jpg}}|| Stephan Buys || coming soon || Platform launch || coming soon|| ||{{attachment:Tim.jpg}}|| Tim Haak || [[https://twitter.com/tim_haak|@tim_haak]] || Docker || Intro to docker what it is and why you may want to use it|| ||{{attachment:Tshepo.jpg}}|| Tshepo Moabi|| coming soon || Vision of the end user || A talk about computing from the perspective of someone who cares for nothing, except the experienced derived from using a desktop computer. He is not a geek or a developer, he's just a regular end user... nothing more. Tshepo Moabi has become tired of the inefficiencies of the many systems that exist. He wants a system that makes it very quick and easy for him to access anything from his computer. A system that exists solely to make computing easier, either for someone new to the world of clicking and typing or for someone who has enjoyed a long, prosperous journey through the many user interfaces that exist. Tshepo has spent endless time downloading and customizing, and many more hours, just to save a few microseconds of navigation while using the desktop computer. The self proclaimed 'regular end user', talks about his vision for the future. This is a vision of the most efficient OS in the world, it also is the easiest UI to learn.|| ||{{attachment:WalterL.jpg}}|| Walter Leibrandt || [[https://twitter.com/wasbeer|@wasbeer]] || Securing yourself with Free Software || What you can do to protect yourself|| ||TBC Alan.jpg|| Alan McKinnon|| coming soon || Building a Business using Open Source Software|| The pitfalls and the shining stars|| == Contact == * Tweet me : @kmf * Facebook : http://facebook.com/karlfischer * G+ : http://google.com/+KarlFischer ---- CategoryTeam2014