GeekDinner

A big thank you to everybody who helped organise, spoke at, or attended the September GeekDinner last night. Special mention to Summerville for hosting us, and, of course, to GetWine for supplying the wine.

GetWine have also very generously offered a special to the attendees of the dinner last night: If you email johan@getwine.co.za and mention the dinner, you can get 12 bottles of the wine we had last night, for only R210. The wine is Senga, and you can get 6 bottles of red and 6 bottles of white, which would normally cost R324. This special will last for a week only, so mail him now, mention GeekDinner, and order your wine!

Jimmy Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) and Heather Ford (from the iCommons) have hatched a scheme to hold 50 parties in 50 cities around the world, with an Open Content/Creative Commons/Free Software sort of theme.

One of these parties is happening in Cape Town, next Saturday, at Deer Park Cafe in Vredehoek. This also happens to be Software Freedom Day, so why not come along and celebrate with Jimbo Wales, the wikiers and iCommons people? Just sign up on the wiki and come along.

For more information, see:

• Software Freedom Day
• Heather and Jimmy’s 50 Great Parties Club
• The 50 Parties Wiki

If you’re keen to attend the Cape Town party, go and sign up at the wiki. Don’t forget the party rules.

The fourth in the new series of Cape Town GeekDinners will be held on Thursday, September the 27th, at Summerville in Camps Bay, at 19:00 for 19:30.

Details can be found on the wiki page.

Sign up to the wiki if you want to come along, and tell your friends!

We also need speakers - if you have an idea or something interesting that you want to talk about, let us know. Talks are only 5 minutes long, followed by a few minutes of questions, and everything is very informal.

Also of interest to geekdiners might be the CLUG talk happening tomorrow evening: Corey Burger will be presenting a talk on OpenStreetMap - see the CLUG wiki for more details.