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: 10:00 - 14:00
- Free of charge, Space limited
Facebook event: CLICK HERE
Google+ Event: 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
eConsultant (confirmed) - Fedora (confirmed)
- House4Hack (confirmed)
- Jumping Bean (confirmed)
- LinuxWarehouse (confirmed)
- LSD (confirmed)
- Obsidian (confirmed)
MongoDB (Not-Yet) - RedHat (confirmed)
- 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 |
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Contact |
Topic |
Description |
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Albert Nel |
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. |
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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 |
coming soon |
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Ross Addis |
Open Hybrid Cloud |
coming soon |
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Stefan Lesicnik |
Coming soon |
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Stephan Buys |
coming soon |
Platform launch |
coming soon |
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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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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. |
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Walter Leibrandt |
Securing yourself with Free Software |
What you can do to protect yourself |
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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