{"id":110264,"date":"2014-09-19T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110264"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:53:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T10:53:34","slug":"software-freedom-day-this-weekend-sa-event-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/110264-software-freedom-day-this-weekend-sa-event-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Software Freedom Day this weekend: SA event details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The local event will be held in Pretoria this year, with organisers selecting the Station Lounge right across from the Pretoria Gautrain station.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.softwarefreedomday.org\/2014\/SouthAfrica\/Pretoria\/SFD\" target=\"_blank\">Software Freedom Day wiki<\/a> and you can confirm your attendance of the event on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/c6vcflr0ucsepo8576pf08nlek0\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/733653976670192\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is summarised in the table below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #002440; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<td>Timeline<\/td>\n<td>Topic<\/td>\n<td>Presenter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9:00<\/td>\n<td>Registration and grabbing coffee<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:00<\/td>\n<td>Opening &amp; OpenSUSE Build Service<\/td>\n<td>Johann Els<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:15<\/td>\n<td>Docker<\/td>\n<td>Tim Haak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:30<\/td>\n<td>OpenShift<\/td>\n<td>Stefan Lesicnik<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:45<\/td>\n<td>Open Hybrid Cloud<\/td>\n<td>Ross Addis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:00<\/td>\n<td>Protecting your Privacy with Free Software<\/td>\n<td>Walter Leibbrand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:15<\/td>\n<td>Break<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:30<\/td>\n<td>The Battle for Open Access<\/td>\n<td>Leti Kleyn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:45<\/td>\n<td>Be Sensible, Use Ansible<\/td>\n<td>Guillaume Belrose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:00<\/td>\n<td>ELK &#8211; Log Analysis<\/td>\n<td>Bennie Kahler-Venter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:15<\/td>\n<td>Building a Business using Open Source Software<\/td>\n<td>Alan McKinnon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:30<\/td>\n<td>Lunch<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13:30<\/td>\n<td>Map Reduce with Bash<\/td>\n<td>Mark Clarke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13:45<\/td>\n<td>ownCloud Your own Cloud 9<\/td>\n<td>Karl Fischer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>Close<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0&#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software freedom news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/107874-forget-net-neutrality-ispa.html\"><strong>Forget net neutrality: ISPA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/96927-china-says-call-for-internet-freedom-is-naive.html\"><strong>China says call for Internet freedom is naive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/91309-us-spying-harms-cloud-computing-internet-freedom-wikipedia.html\"><strong>US spying harms cloud computing, Internet freedom: Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/61062-internet-freedom-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Internet freedom in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/47872-web-freedom-threatened-says-google-founder.html\"><strong>Web freedom threatened says Google founder<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Software Freedom Day this weekend, and there is an event on for geeks in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,20983],"class_list":["post-110264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-software-freedom-day-sfd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110270,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110264\/revisions\/110270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}