Unlike the previous sociable week, this week is somewhat less about meeting other technical geeks and more for empowering the masses through teaching about open source and open content. Well, it's all really just an excuse to meet people, so I'll be tagging along.
The Digital Freedom Expo (I've mentioned it before) is being held at the University of Western Cape on Thursday and Friday, and features international speakers like Lawrence Lessig, Jimmy Wales, Brian Behlendorf, and Philip Greenspun. Local speakers include Heather Ford (representing iCommons), A.J. Venter (former OpenLab lead developer), and Bob Jolliffe (talking about Freedom to Innovate).
On Friday night, there's the iCommons Bring 'n Braai, where Lessig and Wales will talk more about open content to a wider selection of society - and where local creators of content will learn about and show off their open content. It's at the Independent Armchair Theatre from 8pm.
On Saturday, the Ubuntu-ZA community will be having a meet-up that happens also to have become the Cape Town Feisty Release Party. Come have a drink and chat with fellow Ubuntu users at San Marcos at the Cape Town Waterfront from 2pm.
(And if you're microformats-enabled, you can just pick all the event details up automatically from the post page. More on that later...)