OBS is a Free and open source software tool for video recording and live streaming on Linux, Windows, or Mac. It is an excellent tool for organising input from any source and turning it into a professional-level stream or recording …
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
With global lock-downs in place, a lot of people are taking to online teaching, or live streaming and video conferencing for other reasons. This was a live stream to introduce the OBS live streaming software, which can be used for online teaching as well as other streaming and live conferencing.
This post was created to assist some colleagues in Afghanistan, who are creating a server for running Laravel. My experience is with Wordpress, but the principles should be the same.
Almost everything we do at Kenga Solutions is done with open source software, including images, presentations and videos. All of these make use of some kind of graphic design elements. I was recently asked what we use, so here is a short blog post to answer the question.
Chad Fowler, General Manager of Developer Advocacy at Microsoft and well known figure in the software world, recently gave a talk entitled The Future Of Software Development. Chad is described as an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician.
The full title of this talk was “Adapting IT Governance Frameworks to Ensure Control and Visibility of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)”. It was given at the 3rd Government CIO Summit which took place in Cape Town, 27- 30 May 2013. In it I talked about using metrics to […]
There is no doubt that the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) policy of the South African government has been a colossal failure, yet another victim of the Zuma years. One wonders, now that we are moving beyond the Zumafication years, with massive corruption and state capture, whether our FOSS policy can be rekindled. Perhaps it could be in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), where free and open thinking could have a positive impact on our ability as a nation to claim some of the new technology developments. It need not be just software, free and open can apply to anything.