2008 Talks
25-11-2008: AGM with talk on new features and cool things in the latest Ubuntu (Intrepid Ibex)
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
11-11-2008: A demonstration of some pointless utilities and toys the presenter has written
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
28-10-2008: GPU Computing
Presenter: John Stone
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
14-10-2008: Unison
Presenter: Adrianna Pinska
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
30-09-2008: Gstreamer
Presenter: Richard Spiers
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
09-09-2008: Making your own Linux Distribution
Presenter: A J Venter
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
26-08-2008: DNS
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
12-08-2008: The Process Model of the Transputer
Presenter: Andy Rabagliati
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
29-07-2008: Open Source advocacy, awareness and community building in Europe, with emphasis on women in IT
Presenter: Donna Metzlar
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange
Gender Changers
Eclectic Tech Carnival
Syster Server
Code Yard
Girl GeekDinner
08-07-2008: Unicode and Character Sets
Presenter: Neil Blakey-Milner
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
24-06-2008: A review of working with technology in Central and Western Africa
Presenter: Timothy Allen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
10-06-2008: NetBooting
Presenter: Mark Ter Morshuizen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
27-05-2008: OpenSSL and certificates
Presenter: Stefano Rivera
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
13-05-2008: Conary
Presenter: Jonathan Hitchcock
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
22-04-2008: C Programming
Presenter: Marc Welz
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
08-04-2008: dbus and other freedesktop stuff (introducing pyglue)
Presenter: Jonathan Hitchcock and Bradley Whittington
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
25-03-2008: XRandR 1.2: Dynamic display configuration for Linux
Presenter: Adrian Frith
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
Notes: Slides available here.
11-03-2008: BackupPC and rdiff-backup
Presenter: Neil Blakey-Milner
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
26-02-2008: Makefiles and pkgsrc
Presenter: Marc Welz and Mark Ter Morshuizen
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
12-02-2008: UPSs: apcupsd, nut, and some of the theory behind UPSs
Presenter: Chris Roomes (nut: Stefano Rivera)
Venue: UCT ChemEng Lecture Theatre
Time: 6:30pm
Video: on Archive.org (About Talk Videos)
