Next week, on Tuesday 8th, the Western Cape Linux User Group meets to hear about dbus "and other freedesktop stuff".  Usual venue - Chemical Engineering lecture theatre at University of Cape Town.  18:30.  As is usual for CLUG meetings, everyone who attends is welcome to come have supper afterwards (there's a list of previous CLUG dinner venues on the wiki).

The next day, Wednesday 9th, the Cape Town Ruby Brigade has a meeting at the Bandwidth Barn from 19:00.  Currently known topics include the Yahoo! UI and working with it with Rails.  Don't forget to sign up

Saturday, 26th April, finds the Cape Town Python User Group Tenth Meeting (probably) at the Bandwidth Barn, probably from 14:00 as usual.  No set topics yet, but I imagine we might have a round of collaborative programming after the unplanned session last meeting which seemed to go down well.  (Unfortunately, I was working, so I missed out...)

Tuesday, 29th April, is the second of the twice-a-month meetings of the Western Cape Linux User Group.  No idea on the topic yet, though.

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.