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No meeting in December
Hi All In case you missed this part of the announcement for November’s talk, note that the meeting scheduled for December has been cancelled. Thanks to all who supported TLUG in 2010 (speakers and audience)! Regards, Simeon.
Meeting #17 announcement: Who needs Botnets if you have Google?
Topic: Who needs Botnets if you have Google? Speaker: Ivan Burke Date: 1 November 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 4-3 in the IT building. Please join us for the final TLUG meeting for 20101 this coming Monday, 1 November. Ivan Burke will be giving a talk about his research [...]
Meeting #16 feedback: Mozilla: Beyond Firefox
A recording of last night’s talk is available here: tlug-talk-16-walterl-mozilla-beyond-firefox.ogg [2.3MB]. Update: Slides are here: walterl_mozilla.pdf [364KB] Thanks to Walter, all who attended.
Meeting #16 announcement: Mozilla: Beyond Firefox
Topic: Mozilla: Beyond Firefox Speaker: Walter Leibbrandt Date: 6 September 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Sorry for the late announcement! Walter Leibbrandt will be talking about the Mozilla platform tonight, hope to see you all there! For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see [...]
Meeting #15 slides: Programming in Scala
Thanks to all who attended, and to Gary for the informative talk about Scala. Here are Gary’s slides: programming_in_scala.pdf [605KB] We also have a video recording of the talk, currently in post-processing. I will add a new post when it is available.
Meeting #15 announcement: Programming in Scala
Topic: Programming in Scala Speaker: Gary Pampara Date: 2 August 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Gary Pampara will be talking about his new favorite language, Scala, which supports both object-oriented and functional programming, and compiles to Java byte code. This promises to be an [...]
Software Freedom Day Pretoria 2010
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an event held all over the world to celebrate and raise awareness of free and open source software. SFD in Pretoria will be held at the Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria (CSIR campus) on 18 September 2010 (8:00 – 15:00). Entrance is free of charge. For more info see: [...]
Meeting #14 announcement: OpenLaszlo
Topic: OpenLaszlo Speaker: Edwin Peer Date: 5 July 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Edwin Peer will be presenting a talk about OpenLaszlo. For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #13 announcement: Haxe, an open source flash work flow
Topic: Haxe, an open source flash work flow Speaker: Dirk Uys Date: 7 June 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Dirk Uys will be presenting a talk about programming with Haxe. For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.
Meeting #12 announcement: FLOSS Video Encoding
Topic: FLOSS Video Encoding Speaker: Derick Swanepoel Date: 3 May 2010 Time: 18:30 for 19:00 Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 2-24 in the IT building. Derick will be presenting a talk about video formats and standards, video encoding with FLOSS tools and a look at the use of various video formats in online and [...]