Software Freedom Day this weekend: SA event details
This weekend marks the annual celebration of Software Freedom Day, and South Africa will once again be participating with an event of its own on Saturday, 20 September 2014.
The local event will be held in Pretoria this year, with organisers selecting the Station Lounge right across from the Pretoria Gautrain station.
There are 11 confirmed speakers who will be participating in a series of short talks about a variety of cool things you can do with free, libre, and open source software.
More information is available on the Software Freedom Day wiki and you can confirm your attendance of the event on Google+ or Facebook.
The programme is summarised in the table below:
| Timeline | Topic | Presenter |
| 9:00 | Registration and grabbing coffee | – |
| 10:00 | Opening & OpenSUSE Build Service | Johann Els |
| 10:15 | Docker | Tim Haak |
| 10:30 | OpenShift | Stefan Lesicnik |
| 10:45 | Open Hybrid Cloud | Ross Addis |
| 11:00 | Protecting your Privacy with Free Software | Walter Leibbrand |
| 11:15 | Break | – |
| 11:30 | The Battle for Open Access | Leti Kleyn |
| 11:45 | Be Sensible, Use Ansible | Guillaume Belrose |
| 12:00 | ELK – Log Analysis | Bennie Kahler-Venter |
| 12:15 | Building a Business using Open Source Software | Alan McKinnon |
| 12:30 | Lunch | – |
| 13:30 | Map Reduce with Bash | Mark Clarke |
| 13:45 | ownCloud Your own Cloud 9 | Karl Fischer |
| 14:00 | Close | – |
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