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Software Freedom Day

jkroon — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:36:21 +0000

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 questions – makes people feel al warm and fuzzy being able to answer a few questions and satisfying a few curiosities … you know, generally (but hopefully not too much) preaching to the choir, and helping “beginners” find their feet.

Also, there is a copy of the DVD which we’ll be distributing available on the cluon server (as promised) at http://tlug.org.za/opencd (master at rsync://othala.uls.co.za/opencd/ and primary mirror hosted at ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/za-opencd/).

Meeting #4: Voice-over-IP and Asterisk

jkroon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:30:55 +0000

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

jkroon — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:31:25 +0000

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 domain name for ejabberd.

The one big downside of all of this is that all rosters was lost. I can partially recover rosters on demand, so please do contact me via jabber (jkroon@tlug.org.za) and I’ll happily supply you with what I can dig out. Appologies for the inconvenience.

Meeting #2: Extending Python in C/C++

jkroon — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:05:51 +0000

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

jkroon — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:03:29 +0000

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

jkroon — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:56:37 +0000

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 we want to see if wordpress doesn’t work better for us. It gives us a more hierarchical structure, allows us to function by adding “posts” or “pages”. If this doesn’t work out too well, we’ll probably have to roll back.

Simeon did all of the work in terms of installing and getting the hardware swapped around, so a great deal of thanks goes out to him. He put a very significant amount of effort into this change-over, including setting up WordPress for us, moving over all the old data from the old server (which is now resting in peace).

I think jabber is the only service that has not yet been completely migrated and I’ll work on that over the weekend, also figuring out a bit more about the WordPress permissions etc.