Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Recorded July 5th, 2017

Topics

• NSA OSS Technologies
• Open Source Monitization
• Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 - Let's Encrypt
• How to get connected with the PHP community

Rebecca Enonchong is an award-winning Cameroonian-born technology entrepreneur who is affectionately known as the "Queen of African Tech". Rebecca is the founder and CEO of AppsTech, and quite notably a co-founder and Vice-President of the African Business Angels Network (ABAN). In this catch-up chat with Andile Masuku, Rebecca reflects on the #BringBackOurInternet campaign she continues to back, explains why she's annoyed by all the foreign aid money flooding Africa's tech scene and gives us a status update on her very public spat with MTN.

Shaun Kirby oversees product development for Cisco's automotive and connected car business unit. He is responsible for evangelising and acting on trends that will disrupt and transform the world's mobility industry. In this conversation, he explains why he's excited about IoT and talks about whether it's sensible to anticipate that Africa will leapfrog the traditional motor vehicle to adopt more advanced mobility options, this as the global trend towards ride-sharing and self-driving vehicle deployment continues.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Linting as Lightweight Defect Detection for Python
• You should build an Alexa skill
• RISE
• Closer
• Checklist for Python libraries APIs
• Fades
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/33

Wolf Stinnes is smart buildings and digital cities solutions architect at Dimension Data. In this conversation, he talks about some clever top tier sport and health tech solutions that he and his team are beta testing and taking to market at the moment.

Recorded June 29th, 2017

Topic:

• Alcoholics Anonymous meeting during Laracon
• Is Laracon looking for a new venue?
• The Ether Thief
• New Girl Scout Badges focus on cyber crime
• 100 Million Certificates Issued - Let's Encrypt
• AT&T Says It May Soon Charge You Extra For Privacy

Topics covered in this episode:

• [more] Introducing Dash
• Keeping Python competitive
• PyPI Quick and Dirty
• Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
• 8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time
• NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/32

It's no secret, Africa's largest tech company by market cap, Naspers, has been buckling under the pressure to perform for some years now. The fact is, the company hasn't scored any big wins in any of the legacy internet and pay-TV verticals it once used to dominate with ease. Naspers' most recent financial results seem to validate the notion that except for the firm's exceedingly lucrative 33 percent stake in the Chinese cash cow that is Tencent, there seems to be little else to write home about in terms of outstanding performance. In this episode of the African Tech Round-up, Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga discuss the merits of an open letter penned by a certain Albert Saporta - the managing director of the Geneva-based investment advisory firm and Naspers shareholder, AIM&R - accusing Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk of destroying approximately $25.6 billion of shareholder value since his appointment more than three years ago. Sniper! Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0