For South African readers of this Weblog, my schedule is shaping up…
April 17: Stagger off BA flight from London early in the morning; talk from 13h15-14h30 at the University of the Western Cape Computer Science Department Seminar Room (about teaching software engineering). Evening: Collapse at the Cape Grace Hotel on the waterfront.
April 18: Fly Cessna 210 with Mark Semonian (sightseeing, aerial photos, instrument approaches for Mark).
April 19: Attend http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za (hear Larry Lessig and Jimmy Wales speak)
April 20: Attend http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za ; keynote talk at 10:50 on “Building and Sustaining Online Learning Communities” then a nuts and bolts talk at 14:00 on why the RDBMS has been so important for building multi-user Internet apps (expecting an audience of 0 since this is in parallel with open-source hero Brian Behlendorf talking about how to be an open-source hero)
April 21: Sightseeing around Cape Town
April 22: Departure in the Cessna 210 for game parks, Victoria Falls, Botswana, Namibia, etc. Mark seems to be a last-minute guy, so it is unclear exactly where we are going….
May 7: Return to Cape Town. Crash in corner of Mark’s apartment.
May 8: Evening flight to London (12 hours) and then home to Boston on May 9.