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Archive for the 'South Africa' Category

CLUG Rocks!

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

CLUG is the Cape Linux Users Group, our local LUG here in Cape Town. Last week we attended the Futurex exhibition, which is one of the largest technology shows here in South Africa.
Problem was, it’s very expensive to hire some ground space at these shows. So what did CLUG do? We sent out an appeal […]

Software Freedom Day 2006

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

3 Days after the fact, but when you have lots of work you constantly have to re-prioritise
The past weekend we celebrated Software Freedom Day in Cape Town. It took place at Khayelitsha, which is one of the poorest areas in the city. It happened at a community center there called “the lookout point”. […]

Python in Cape Town

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Today I attended the first ever Cape Town Python Users Group Meeting (CTPUG). I didn’t attend the entire event, which is a pity because I missed a talk on Turbogears, which is possibly not all that bad since I decided to go with Django (time-wise I can’t really afford to change my mind […]

SASA - South African Space Agency

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

From ITweb:
“”
Cabinet last week approved the establishment of a South African space agency, to co-ordinate and implement the country’s space science and technology programmes.
“”
ITweb article here.
Yay!