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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 but [...]