[ubuntu-za] Cape Town Feisty Release Party - thanks and photos

[Jonathan Hitchcock]

Morgan Collett wrote:
> Jonathan Hitchcock's photos are here:
> http://gallery.omnia.za.net/v/vhata/UbuntuZAParty200704/
> 
> ...
> 
> Please would anybody else who took photos, send out the URL. Ditto for
> any photos of the other events...

Jonathan Carter's are at:

http://photos.jonathancarter.co.za/ubuntu-party-7-04

Jonathan Endersby didn't take any ;-)


> Something that came up at the meetup and also at the Ubuntu BoF on
> Friday was that regular meetups would go down well. Perhaps there's a
> Free Software friendly restaurant where we could have a standing
> arrangement for a given night of the month, for those who want to go
> along...

It would be best not to clash with the other geek events that happen
regularly.  Which reminds me, Lesley pointed out that we should
advertise local geek events on this list.  So, this is me pointing out
the 27 Dinner that happens every month (alternating between Joburg and
Cape Town):

http://27dinner.pbwiki.com/

Also, Capetonians should know about the Geek Dinner, which happens
(probably) every two months:

http://www.geekdinner.org.za/

Also for Capetonians, there's CLUG talks every two weeks, and a dinner
every week:

http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/CLUG_Meetings


That said, I think it's a good idea.


> Somebody please "own" this to make it happen - and not just for
> Cape Town! OK, what's the plural of somebody?

The plural of "somebody" is "committee", so let's stay away from that ;-)


When do you want the next one?  If we have a dinner, then people *need*
to confirm that they are coming, because you can't tell a restaurant
that "between 11 and 30 people" will be arriving.  What we did on
Saturday was rock up at San Marcos in the afternoon, confirm among those
present who would be staying for dinner, and then we made the booking
then, a few hours in advance.  If numbers get bigger, however, this
isn't so easy - restaurants want to be told beforehand if there's a big
table coming.

Other options are informal afternoon drinks like we had on Saturday, or
an event that we don't need to book for (e.g. a picnic in
Kirstenbosch/Rhodes Memorial) (Joburg/Durban/Potchefstroom people are on
their own here ;-).


I think a dinner once a month would be good, though.

Comments?  If nobody speaks up, I'm going to get executive again.