The Ubuntu-ZA Cape Town community is holding its Gutsy Release Party on Sunday, at Cantina Tequila at the V&A Waterfront. Jonathan Endersby has the details, and please RSVP with him for numbers for booking tables and so forth.
(I'm really looking forward to Gutsy on my new-work laptop, especially after drooling over the new dynamic screen detection at CLUG a few days back, and there seems quite a few other things that will make it worth the upgrade.)
Dapper Drake reinstall
10 Jun
I'm afraid I'm even more of an Ubuntu fanboy now. Just reinstalled my laptop that has been upgraded via development versions of Breezy and Dapper. Not only is it incredibly faster, but some things are now working that weren't before - most usefully leaving X via ctrl-alt-Fx and hibernation support. Nothing much else to say - same programmes I was running the day before, after all.
The Ubuntu Certified Professional certification has been announced. I hadn't mentioned it before, but I spent a day at one of the early meetings on the subject and took part in the Cape Town portion of the item-writing workshops (along with Jonathan and Russell. The first exams will be held at LinuxWorld in Johannesburg in a month and a half - so chances are the first couple certified Ubuntu professionals will be South Africans. (I can't write, of course.)