Software Freedom Day Pretoria, South Africa

SPEAKERS

Name

Contact

Topic

Description

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.

Bennie Kahler-Venter

http://www.abrocha.co.za

ELK - Log Analysis

Do amazing things with Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana

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.

Johann Els

http://www.suse.com

OpenSUSE Build Service

coming soon

Ross Addis

http://www.redhat.com

Open Hybrid Cloud

coming soon

Stefan Lesicnik

http://www.lsd.co.za

OpenShift

Coming soon

Stephan Buys

http://www.panoptix.co.za

Platform launch

coming soon

Tim Haak

@tim_haak

Docker

Intro to docker what it is and why you may want to use it

Tshepo Moabi

https://plus.google.com/+TshepoMoabi

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.

Walter Leibbrandt

@wasbeer

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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Alan McKinnon

coming soon

Building a Business using Open Source Software

The pitfalls and the shining stars

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Mark Clarke

The Internet of Things

http://www.cyberconnect.co.za

Overview of the internet of things, how open source is powering the next wave of innovation that is empowering individuals and how you can get involved.

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Mark Clarke

Map Reduce with Bash

http://www.jumpingbean.co.za

How one Univesity's Nuclear Research Department is using simple bash scripting to do Monte-Carlo analysis.