{"id":547837,"date":"2006-01-26T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547837-linuxworld-indaba-goes-fee-free-this-year.html"},"modified":"2006-01-26T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T06:12:45","slug":"linuxworld-indaba-goes-fee-free-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547837-linuxworld-indaba-goes-fee-free-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"LinuxWorld indaba goes fee-free this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Delegates were charged up to R2100 to attend the two-day event last year, even though developers of the Linux operating system endorse the policy of not charging for their work. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are learning from the open-source culture, and plan to open the keynote addresses to the public free of charge,\u201d said Exhibitions for Africa director Aldean Prior. Scrapping the fees should help to ignite interest in Linux and open source, and enable everyone to be a part of LinuxWorld, she said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Prior said last year\u2019s inaugural LinuxWorld SA was a huge success, especially the talks by Mark Shuttleworth and open-source expert Jon \u201cMaddog\u201d Hall. \u201cAs is the case with the first iteration of anything, there is much to be learnt from the experience.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This year there will be a keynote speech each morning and another after lunch, allowing time to browse an exhibition in between. There will also be a greater focus on training, with eight modules planned. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">LinuxWorld takes place on May 16 and 17, to coincide with technology trade show Futurex. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVENT organiser Exhibitions for Africa is taking a tip from the free to-use nature of open-source software, and is scrapping the attendance fee for its LinuxWorld conference this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547837"}],"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=547837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}