Meeting 2015/05/30

When

30th of May, 2015

Where

The Alexander Bar have offered to host us again.

What

Petrus Janse van Rensburg will talk about "how (not) to sell cattle online"

Talk Description

There are roughly 14 million cattle in South Africa, supporting an industry that's worth around R20 billion to producers annually and which provides much-needed employment in rural areas.

But the industry has been consolidating for decades, resulting in a market that's dominated by a small number of large companies and high barriers to entry for people interested in farming on a smaller scale.

What if software could be use to up-end the current business model, and enable large numbers of people to farm in a way that would still benefit from economies of scale?

In this talk, I'll talk about my experience trying to do that with www.ukusisa.com, and discuss the stack that was used in building a minimum viable product:

Database: Postgres & PostGIS Application: Flask, SQLALchemy, Alembic, Flask-Admin & Flask-Babel Frontend: Bootstrap, jQuery & D3.js

Agenda

• 14:00 Welcome, etc
• 14:15 "How (not) to sell cattle online"
• 15:00'ish Housekeeping, etc.

Next Meeting

To be decided, but probably mid July

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