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Software Freedom Day
On the 19th of September it’s going to be software freedom day. Detailed information available at http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria, but basically those who can get together at the CSIR from 9:00 till 15:00. We’ll be handing out some CDs and hopefully some people that’s interested in the whole OSS (not only Linux) pitches up, asks a few [...]
Meeting #4: Voice-over-IP and Asterisk
Topic: Voice-over-IP and Asterisk Speaker: Jaco Kroon Date: 6 July 2009 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm). Slides: TLUG VoIP/Asterisk Audio recording: tlug-talk-4-jkroon-voip.ogg (16 MB)
ejabberd back up
After some technical difficulties it was unearthed that porting a Mnesia database (such as that used by erlang) from one machine to another is insanely difficult. I eventually gave up and as a result everybody has to re-register their accounts. Please do so under @tlug.org.za as I also took the opportunity to change the authoritative [...]
Meeting #2: Extending Python in C/C++
Speaker: Simeon Miteff Date: 4 May 2009 Our second meeting took place at the ULS offices again. Simeon talked about Extending Python in C/C++. Thanks to all who attended. Presentation: tlug_4may09.pdf Example source code: python-extension-talk_tlugtar.gz
Meeting #1: translate.org.za
Speaker: Walter Leibbrandt Walter talked about what he is working on: Translate.org.za The slides for this talk is available at: http://download.translate.org.za/presentations/TLUG_6Apr09.pdf
Server Switch
As some comments on the “sample” post indicated a number of people noted that the server is no longer the server. We’ve swapped out the server for a (hopefully) more reliable machine, with some extra RAM and HDD space. What happened to the forums was an unfortunate accident, the wiki is still available under /wiki [...]