| | 15 | ==== Talk Description ==== |
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| | 17 | 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. |
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| | 19 | 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. |
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| | 21 | 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? |
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| | 23 | 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: |
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| | 25 | Database: Postgres & PostGIS |
| | 26 | Application: Flask, SQLALchemy, Alembic, Flask-Admin & Flask-Babel |
| | 27 | Frontend: Bootstrap, jQuery & D3.js |
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