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The SA NREN is hosting a parallel event at the CHPC National Meeting 2015

The South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) will be hosting a parallel session at the CHPC National Meeting 2015. The theme of this year National Meeting is: Towards an integrated cyberinfrastructure.

SA NREN parallel event
Date: Wednesday, 02 Decmemebr 2015
Venue: The CSIR International Convention Centre (ICC), Pretoria, South Africa
Time: 13h30 onwards, Sessions 3A (13h30 to 15h00) and 3B (15h45 to 17h15)

For further details see: www.chpcconf.co.za

SANReN CA recruiting for a Systems Administrator – closed

The CSIR has a vacancy for a Systems Administrator in the South African National Research Network (SANReN), within the Meraka Institute. The role of this position is to commission, decommission, configure and maintain hardware and software that support the day-to-day activities of SANReN. The position is based in Pretoria.

Read the job advert (Ref # 306006) on the CSIR’s vacancies web page.

Closing date: 30 October 2015.

Watch the recording of the Pretoria Mconf launch event here: (Recorded with Mconf)

Here is the Mconf launch event recording taken at CSIR ICC, Pretoria, on 22nd July (~2.5 hours): Link to online playback

(Plays the recording in an HTML5 page in a Firefox or Chrome browser. The recording is not downloaded to your computer and will require an internet connection to be reproduced.)

You can download and save the presentation to view offline at this link: Link to download and play offline

(Downloads an HTML page that you can use to reproduce the recording offline using your browser. Has all the features of the HTML player online plus the advantage of also working offline. Currently can only be reproduced using the Firefox browser.)

Successful Mconf web conferencing launch events in Pretoria and Cape Town!

Mconf web conferencing was officially launched as a production level service last week at two successful Mconf web conferencing launch events. The events took place at the CSIR ICC in Pretoria, on Wednesday 22nd July 2015, and at CPUT Bellville campus on Thursday 23rd July 2015.

The event was conducted using the SA NREN’s Mconf web conferencing installation which enabled a speaker from the Mconf Technology’s web conferencing development team in Porto Alegre, Brazil to participate and present at the session.

Find the poster, agenda, presentations and handouts from the event below:

You can start using this feature rich web conference collaboration tool immediately by registering at https://mconf.sanren.ac.za

Below are pictures taken at the event in Pretoria:

Mconf event pics 20150723_150711

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