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Cape Town
This show is over (for now)!
On August 22, 2008 50 fabulous folks gathered at Bird's Boutique Cafe in Cape Town to talk about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. This page is an (emerging) record of that event.
What did talk about?
As is becoming the norm, Open Everything Cape Town was a tasty cocktail of an
event: insipirational talks (10 in one hour), unconferency
conversations and a great dinner party all mixed up together. Things that happened:
- What's open? University of the Western Cape's Philipp Schmidt and Shuttleworth Foundation's Mark Surman did a 15 mininute schtick to set up the conversation. This was folled by 30 mins of people speed-introing with each other around the questions 'what's open and why do we care?'. There is a slidecast of the opening as well as a short blog post about it by Mark.
- Open Cape Town Speedgeeks. The intro was followed by ten high speed presentations by local people and projects that have baked openness into their DNA. We'll post audio or video for the bulk of these soon.
- Couchsurfing by Mandy Messina
- UWC's Rip. Mix. Learn. by Igor Lesko
- 27 Dinners by Dave Duarte
- Mail and Guardian Thought Leader by Matthew Buckland
- Siyavula / FHSST by Sarah Blyth
- Dabba / Village Telco by Steve Song
- Ultimate Holiday Planner by Terence Lapidus
- QuirkE Marketing by Rob Stokes
- Creative R&D by Steve Kromberg
- Breadbin Freedom Toaster - Brett Simpson
- Over coffee we had a surprise: champagne and cake for Matt Buckland's birthday.
- Case study: open sourcing in government. Aslam Raffee, CIO of the Department of Science and Technology, provided a brief, under-the-hood look at adopting open source within the Government of South Africa. Aslam was interviewed by the Mail and Guardian Online's Matthew Buckland and the Shuttleworth Foundation's Steve Song. The full podcast is here, and a blog post is here.
- Open space sessions: there were five open space sessions at the end:
- Andrew Rens on Open Standards
- Eve Gray on Opening Scholarship
- Maximilian Kaizen on creating a Free Culture House for Cape Town
- Natalie on the CVET archive
- Jenny Radloff on Feminist Tech Exchange
If you want to SEE what happend, check out Tino's great Flickr set.
What did people say?
Blog postings covering or inspired by the event included:
- Coverage on Open Education News
- Open Everything Quite Something - Philipp Schmidt
- Cape Town: Rebooting the Open Everything Intro - Mark Surman
- Open It! Yes, Everything! - Matt Buckland
-
Under the Hood: Open Source @ gov.za - Mark Surman
- Open Everything in Government - Steve Song
If you know of a post that we missed, please add it.
Who attended?
Here is a list of people who attended. Thanks a million to Wendy for doing registration.
- Helen King, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Philipp Schmidt, UWC
- Maximilian Kaizen
- Mark Horner, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Bronwen Kausch
- Mandy Messina CS
- Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Mathew Buckland, Mail and Guardian
- James Cairns
- Lanon Prigge
- Tonia Zorbas (might be a bit late)
- Andrew Rens, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Peter 'Piet' Waechtler
- David Duarte
- Terence Lapidus
- Vincent Maher - www.vincentmaher.com
- Wolde Amde
- Steve Kromberg
- Steve Song, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Rich Mulholland
- Karien Bezuidenhout, Shuttleworth Foundation
- Tasos Calantzis, Readymade
- Eve Gray, University of Cape Town
- Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Uni versity of Cape Town
- Michelle Willmers, University of Cape Town @
- Peter Heinecke, Cielarko International Management Consultants
- Dr H Titilayo Seriki, Cielarko International Management Consultants
- Glenn McKnight, FBSC - www.fbsc.org @
- Werner van Staden, MeWe OpenSource - www.mewe.org.uk/oss @
- Yasser Buchana, University of the Western Cape/ (Free Software Innovation Unit)
- Abdul Hadi Fakier , University of the Western Cape/ (Free Software Innovation Unit)
- Aqeelah Begg-, University of the Western Cape/ (Free Software Innovation Unit)
- Sarah Blyth, free textbook genius @
- Pamela Weaver, ITWeb
- Janet Paterson, ITWeb
- Joy Olivier
- Michelle Matthews
- Rene Toerien, University of Cape Town @
- Jennifer Radloff, APC Women's Networking Support Programme
- Malcolm Ferguson, malcom@getsomehoney.com
- Igor Lesko, UWC *
- Arthur Attwell, Electric Book Works
- Richard Mills, Film Editor
- Gabi De Bie, University of Cape Town @
- Joshin Raghubar, iKine
- Tanya Odendaal, Grandstand Management @
- Anton Grutter (+1), UWC, arrive at 18h only - ok
- Grant Hearn (+1), UWC - ok
- Yolanda Botha, tenkilo.co.za - ok
- Jean-Michel Jaquet, University of Cape Town @
- Lauren Rosenberg, SAHO @
- Michael Adeyeye, University of Cape Town <micadeyeye{at}crg.ee.uct.ac.za>
- Morgan Behr morganbehr@gmail.com
- Malcolm Ferguson, Ivory Tower Internet Solutions malcolm@getsomehoney.com
- Raymond De Villiers, Wisdom Games raymond@wisdomgames.co.za
- Anriette Esterhuysen, APC
- Judith Haupt, CONTRACT Reifenhaeuser & Karnath KGJudith.Haupt@contract-kg.de
- Leigh, TSIBA
- Natalie, CVET - ok
This event was organized by ...
.... a random collection of committed rabble plus people, resources and ideas from the University of the Western Cape and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
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