{"id":464,"date":"2016-07-02T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-07-05T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T08:01:19","slug":"debconf2016-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/02\/debconf2016-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"DebConf2016 in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today DebConf started in Cape Town and already listened to a very good talk of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdbothma\">JD Bothan<\/a> on &#8222;<a href=\"https:\/\/debconf16.debconf.org\/talks\/118\/\">FLOSSing for healthier society<\/a>&#8222;, a geeky title for a serious and gravely needed technologies to educate the masses about important data.<\/p>\n<p>His many examples of already accomplished projects that educate about South African live (and which has been covered by the press &#8212; creating a fuzz about the findings):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/living-wage.co.za\/\">Living-Wage<\/a>: Are You paying your domestic worker enough?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wazimap.co.za\/\">Wazimap<\/a>: Visulization of readily available statistical data (StatSA, census 2011, and othery) integrated into a pleasing, dynamic website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gq.co.za\/2016\/03\/how-much-work-day-paying-tax\/\">How much of Your day&#8217;s work tax is spent<\/a>: This was covered by GQ life-style magazine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Especially the latter opened the doors for further journalists becoming interested in how to gather and use readily online statistical data. The main driver behind his projects and work at <a href=\"http:\/\/code4sa.org\/\">code4SA.org<\/a> is to improve society by empowering people and local government to collect and use data to better the constituents lifes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today DebConf started in Cape Town and already listened to a very good talk of JD Bothan on &#8222;FLOSSing for healthier society&#8222;, a geeky title for a serious and gravely needed technologies to educate the masses about important data. His &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/02\/debconf2016-in-cape-town\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debconf16","category-south-africa","category-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raytec.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}