Geek Events in Cape Town, November 2007

I'm a bit late with this this month - two of the events have already happened.

On Saturday the 10th November, the first OpenStreetMap South Africa mapping party happened in Noordhoek.  (Unfortunately I was unwell.)

Last night, Tuesday 13th November, the Western Cape Linux User Group (aka CLUG) held one of it's twice-a-month meetings at its usual venue at the University of Cape Town.  Thomas Andrews talked about the Blio PBX, developed in part by CLUG members.  (Unfortunately, still not well.)

Tonight, Wednesday 14th November, the first Cape Town Ruby Brigade meeting will be held at the Bandwidth Barn from 19:30.  Well done to the Ruby guys for organising themselves, and I think it's great that GeekDinner played a part in this getting organised.  The Cape Town Ruby Brigade will be meeting on the second Wednesday every month.  (Unfortunately, I have another meeting to attend this time, but I'll try make it in future.)

On Saturday 17th November, the Cape Town Python User Group (aka CTPUG) will be holding their 7th meeting (or "CTPUG 7") at the Bandwidth Barn at 15:00.  We're going to hear about Python Profiling, as well as the Pygments syntax highlighting library.  And, it seems, some planning for StarCamp as well, so hopefully there'll be some Python-related talks and maybe a sprint there as well.

Tuesday the 27th of November is the Western Cape Linux User Group annual general meeting at its usual Chemical Engineering Lecture Theatre venue at UCT.  Jonathan Hitchcock is going to talk about desktop bling (things like compiz fusion and so forth).

Wednesday, 28th November, is Eccentric Eggplant, the fifth GeekDinner to be held in Cape Town, and it will take place at Ferryman's Tavern at the Cape Town Waterfront.  Still a few seats open for this, and the line-up looks pretty diverse and interesting - I'm especially interested to hear from a game developer about the games industry.