The South African NREN will be hosting a Tutorial Workshop on: How to install and configure an eduroam system (SP, IdP, RO) including how the authentication process works
Date: Monday, 05 December 2016 (full day)
Presenters: Johan Hugo, (SANReN, CSIR)
Further details can be found at the CHPC conference website.
The South African NREN with be hosting a NREN track at the CHPC National Meeting 2016 on Wednesday, 07 December 2016 in East London, South Africa.
Further details can be found at the CHPC conference website.
The South African National Research and Education Network (SA NREN) which is constituted out of a partnership collaboration between the SANReN Competency Area at the CSIR Meraka Institute and the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET), hosted a parallel session at the CHPC National Meeting 2015.
There were a diverse range of presentations at the session. The session chair was Dr. Renier van Heerden.
The following presentations were made:
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
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:
On behalf of the SA NREN (SANReN CA and TENET), you are invited to one of two launch events for the new Mconf web conferencing service.
Together Mconf web conferencing and Vidyo desktop and room based conferencing systems will cater for the majority of virtual collaboration needs of the South African Research and Education community.
These services are being provided to enable collaboration through high quality video, audio and shared content over the SANREN Network in a simple and easy to use way.
Outlined Agenda for the events:
– Introduction to web conferencing
– Details and features of the Mconf service
– Infrastructure and support for the service at TENET
– How to access and use the service
– SAFIRE federation and other services
The sessions will include lunch and an opportunity for networking.
Please register here:
(Events are scheduled from 12pm – 4pm)
For the Pretoria event: http://tinyurl.com/mconf-event-pretoria
For the Cape Town event: http://tinyurl.com/mconf-event-capetown
Visit the Mconf blog at http://mconfsa.wordpress.com/ and share the Mconf launch event poster. (Please post to the staff notice board)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
