1 of 50 Party in Cape Town

17 Sep 2007

Saturday night was The Event With Many Names (Jonathan calls it The Open Content Party) which again (like the iCommons Bring and Braai) somewhat rejuvenated my ailing soul from the despair of the lack of participation of South Africans in the global Free and Open Source Software and related areas.  And the free wine on an empty stomach probably made things particularly enjoyable too.

Unlike the iCommons Bring and Braai, I managed to do more than just introduce myself to Jimmy Wales, and he seemed to be a pretty decent guy - enjoying (or, at worst possibly interpretation, being kind enough to pretend to be enjoying) chatting with everyone.

I reconnected with a lot of old acquaintances and friends - I got the feeling I knew at least half the people there.  I also managed to meet a few new people, but I'm a bit disappointed at myself that I didn't try harder to do so.

Has got me thinking of making Geekcamp (name pending) more friendly to people who otherwise contribute to open content (even though Geekcamp isn't intended to exclude proprietary software or other cool things, if they're sufficiently of interest to the participants).

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

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    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

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