Software19.09.2014

Software Freedom Day this weekend: SA event details

Software Freedom Day

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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