Here’s the weekly round up of startup events coming up in the Cape Town area courtesy of the CT Startup Digest. Subscribe to the digest for a weekly email summary of upcoming events in the area:
Innovation Festival
When: Monday, March 8th and Tuesday, March 9th
Where: Spier Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
More Info: http://www.innovationfestival.co.za/
Promoted by SAINe and Cape Biotech Trust as part of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA ). Hosted at the Spier Wine Estate, Western Cape. The programme includes Technology Innovation, Business Innovation, Innovation Management, Creativity and Innovation.
Cape Linux Users Group Talk: Marc Welz
When: Tuesday, March 9th at 18h30
Where: SUCT Chemical Engineering Seminar Room
More Info: http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Main_Page
Cape Linux Users Group is having its first meetup of the year. Presenter is Marc Welz.
Cape Town Ruby Brigade Meeting
When: Wednesday, March 10th from 19h00 to 21h00
Where: Sudoroom, 5th Floor Bandwidth Barn, 125 Buitengracht St
More Info: http://www.sudoroom.com/workshops/
Topic: Sequel is a lightweight database access toolkit for Ruby. The speaker is Farrel Lifson.
Cape Town Python Users Group Meeting
When: Saturday, March 13th from 14h00 to 17h00
Where: Sudoroom, 5th Floor Bandwidth Barn, 125 Buitengracht St
More Info: http://ctpug.org.za/wiki/Meeting20100313
Packaging Python projects for Linux Distributions: Stefano will talk on packaging for Debian and its derivatives. David Fraser will talk on packaging for Fedora.
1 Day Social Media Workshop
When: Monday, March 15th
Where: Kelvin Grove, Newlands
More Info: http://www.bizassist.co.za/socialmediaconference/
By attending the Social Media course on you will be on the path to:
• Getting started and making social networks work for you
• Leveraging the amazing power of micro celebrity
• Transforming social and cultural capital into financial capital
• How to profit from the knowledge you never you had.
Some fantastic events lined up.