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Comment by Jacques Rentzke on August 11, 2011 at 11:39am

Next weekend (19-20 August 2011) the Joomla! community in South Africa will be hosting a Joomla!Day event in Cape Town.

Joomla is popular free and open source Content Management Software.

Ryan Ozimek who is the President of the board of Open Source Matters, and a Joomla and open source evangelists, will join us from the USA to deliver the keynote for this event. He will also have a session on the role that the Joomla open source software can play in making charities and government agencies more effective.

Please find details and cost here: (registrations are closing soon)

http://www.siliconcape.com/events/joomla-day-south-africa-cape

 

Comment by Zanecebo Mchunu on April 19, 2011 at 12:09am

I need help with finishing atmail open installation, I've already uploded via ftp. I need to change the rootname of my web directory.

Comment by Deon C. Louw on March 31, 2011 at 8:18am

http://www.dclcreative.co.za/free_app.htm

Comment by Jacques Rentzke on July 9, 2010 at 11:20pm

The first meetup of the Joomla! User Group Cape Town, will be taking place on the 15th of July 2010 at Sinn's Restaurant in Wembley Square, Gardens, Cape Town.

All Open Source Advocates and Joomla! users are welcome!

Please confirm your attendance

Comment by William Kleynhans on April 22, 2010 at 8:40am

Hi All

Things are moving a pace for the first Bootstrappers Braai . We now have a venue that we will finalize soon.

We need people to volunteer for the following roles
We require some help with the following:

Master of Heraldry: Someone to help design a funky logo
Master Gunner: Someone to help invite people and just create general awareness
Quarter Master: Someone to manage the booty
Boatswain: This person will help manage the stores and setting up functions
Sailing Master: Responsible for the Bootstrapper Braai Group/Blog and who polls attendees on changes/additions to the event
Again the main aim is to hold an informal social event for people starting companies/ involved with start ups or keen to start them.

Comment by Deon C. Louw on March 29, 2010 at 8:46am

Hallo, open source advocates!
PC uses would know there is this annoying autorun.inf virus that copies itself unto your USB drive and next thing you know you have to go through onehelava rigmarole to open the drive. http://ninjapendisk.com/comment-page-1/ Ninja Pendisk takes care of this horrible little critter for you. I’m not sure if it is open .
source pre say, but it is free like the air you breathe (until Obama’s Cap-in-Trade legislation start taxing you for that too.)
But this little app would at least take care of this thing that had me off my rocker for years now. Just run it. Then plug your USB drive in, and see if it works. If it does not, do unplug and re-plug until it does.

Comment by Deon C. Louw on February 25, 2010 at 8:26pm

dude...I be sure to ask my guy....she is actualy a gril...but soon as I know I'll let you know...

Comment by HC on February 23, 2010 at 7:18pm

Hi. Good topic, thanks for starting this group Deon. I should stop whining about Ning.com - the platform that runs this and one of my sites - but how can I, if I am constantly limited by not being able to touch or even see the source. Maybe I am not doing ning justice but they really seem to have embraced closed source to a fault. Support for opensocial makes it sound open but then it's only an API and most apps are closed too. Does anyone know a good OS social networking platform - preferably not built on php?

Comment by Deon C. Louw on February 9, 2010 at 9:07pm

Blender (open source 3D) was voted best 3D designer 2009.
Blender has 10ths of plug-ins like farmer Joe. The source code was 1st developed for Lord of the Rings, and then the community took over to create the award winning 3D suite. An affiliate runs a commercial media studio solely on open source software.
Gimp, Inkscape and Blender are the top three applications that they use.

Comment by Deon C. Louw on January 20, 2010 at 8:02am

I discovered an elegant little open app last night called: Resize-o-matic.
It is the smartest and simplest way of resizing pictures for upload, email or facebook.