Upcoming events - October 2007

03 Oct 2007

There's quite a bit happening for geeks in Cape Town this month. 

On Saturday 6th from 14:00 to about 16:00, the Cape Town Python User Group will be holding its sixth meeting at the Bandwidth Barn, where you can hear me talking about Pylons and Graeme Glass talking about Python on the S60 mobile/smartphone platform.

On Tuesday 9th from 18:30 onwards, the Western Cape Linux User Group will be holding a meeting at the UCT Chemical Engineering Lecture Theatre (as usual), with Jonathan Hitchcock talking about the Gentoo Portage package management system.

On Wednesday 17th, Moodia is hosting the first Facebook Developer Garage Cape Town (Facebook required), at the Waverley business park from 18:30 to 22:30.  This should be an interesting event, and hopefully we'll see some Facebook development talks, tutorials, or projects at *Camp.

On Saturday 20th, the first PodCampCapeTown is happening (although I think I might have to give it a miss, given my schedule) from 9am to 5pm at The Wild Fig (you might remember that they were the venue for the May Cape Town GeekDinner).

On Saturday 27th, slightly less geeky, there's the 27-13 27dinner from 18:30 onwards at the Deer Park Cafe (you might remember that this was where the "1 of 50" open content party was held last month).

Also by CLUG, on Tuesday 30th, UCT Chemical Engineering Lecture Theatre from 18:30, Jeremy Thurgood will be talking about the DARCS version control system.

I like that we're discovering some good venues - the Bandwidth Barn, the Wild Fig, and the Deer Park Cafe all seem quite friendly to being used as venues for the kind of events we're organising.

3 Responses

  1. Jonathan Carter — October 03, 2007 at 07:40 PM.

    And please don't forget the IkamvaYouth Telkom Toyi-Toyi: http://www.ikamvayouth.org/node/682

  2. Neil Blakey-Milner — October 17, 2007 at 11:22 AM.

    The Facebook Developer Garage Cape Town has moved to Tuesday, October 30th, now at the River Club in Mowbray.

  3. Neil Blakey-Milner — October 18, 2007 at 04:50 PM.

    And then there's the Gutsy Release Party [nxsy.org] on October 21 too!

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