On Saturday, we had the Open Content Party with Jimmy Wales and Heather Ford. I won't say much, since Arno and Christel have both given rather good roundups of the atmosphere at the place, and I can't really top that. It was a great evening, with all sorts of people bring what they could. Photos are up.
See you all at the GeekDinner next week!
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 - head over there and sign up to the wiki if you want to come along.
We also need speakers - if you have an idea or something interesting that you want to talk about, let us know, or just add it to the wiki. Talks are only 5 minutes long, followed by a few minutes of questions, and everything is very informal.
Ian Gilfillan has an excellent post on McDonalds as a corporation, and how we view it. He actually sums up my thoughts and experiences fairly well - the cognitive dissonance involved when you try to tell people how bad McDonalds is is unbelievable. I have spoken to people so many times who say "Man, I had McDonalds for lunch, and now I feel absolutely awful". And I've heard them say it so many times! But try to point out that that's completely unsurprising, and that McDonalds really, really is absolutely awful for you, and they just say "Yeah, but it tastes nice", and refuse to engage further.
People are a bit stupid, I think.
Jimmy Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) and his wife Heather Ford from iCommons in Johannesburg 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. You can read about it at iCommons or on Wikia, but what I'm most interested in is the Cape Town party, which is happening in a week and a half's time, on International Software Freedom Day.
Jimbo Wales will be here, and it should be good. It's at Deer Park Cafe in Vredehoek - head over to the wikia page and sign up!
Updated - I have no idea why I thought Heather was Jimbo's wife.