{"id":264349,"date":"2018-06-14T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=264349"},"modified":"2018-06-14T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:04:12","slug":"south-african-linux-and-postgres-conferences-planned-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/264349-south-african-linux-and-postgres-conferences-planned-for-october.html","title":{"rendered":"South African Linux and Postgres conferences planned for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African open source, Linux, and Postgres community will be treated to two conferences in October &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxconf.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LinuxConf<\/strong><\/a> on 8 October and <a href=\"https:\/\/postgresconf.org\/conferences\/SouthAfrica2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PostgresConf<\/strong><\/a> on 9 October.<\/p>\n<p>LinuxConf is a one-day conference in Johannesburg aimed at the Linux and open source community.<\/p>\n<p>Topics covered at LinuxConf will include Linux Kernel and OS, Linux distributions, virtualisation, system administration, open source applications, networking, and development environments.<\/p>\n<p>PostgresConf is aimed at the database administration and developer community, where they will exchange ideas and learn about the features and upcoming trends within PostgreSQL.<\/p>\n<p>Both conferences take place at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre, which is located close to OR Tambo airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe call for papers is open for both conferences and tickets are available for LinuxConf, with the ticket sales for PostgresConf opening soon,\u201d said conference organiser Malcolm McLean.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/256421-linux-4-17-development-underway.html\">Linux 4.17 development underway<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call for papers for the first LinuxConf and the second PostgresConf is open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144463,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[51607,51609],"class_list":["post-264349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linuxconf","tag-postgresconf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264349"}],"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=264349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264351,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264349\/revisions\/264351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}