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Wordcamp with Matt Mullenweg, Open Everything and Cape Town geek party

Posted in Uncategorized. on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by Vincent Maher Tags: geek events, matt mullenweg, social media, stii, the stop, wordcamp
Aug 21

The next 48 hours are jam-packed with geekiness. Tomorrow morning Tyler Reed and I fly to Cape Town and the crack, literally, of dawn to do all manner of cool things.

I get to spend the morning at the Cow Africa offices discussing the conceptual specs for the new Grid web site and the upcoming launch of our Java application. We’re also working on the final production of the first location-aware mobile documentary about black youth culture in South Africa, which will be launching on the Grid soonish.

Then the afternoon is Open Everything, with Mark Surman from the Shuttleworth Foundation, Philipp Schmidt from UWC and a panel of speedgeekers including Matthew Buckland, Steve Song and Rob Stokes.

That evening Mike Stopforth and Stii Pretorius (the legend) have organised a geek party at the beautiful Asoka bar. Click here to attend the event.

Then on Saturday I speak at WordCamp, with some local luminaries including Justin Hartman and Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and Warwick Poole, an old friend from VWV days who now works at Automattic. With Matt at the event this is going to be one of the most exciting social media events of the year.

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Vincent Maher

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    Vincent Maher is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile telecommunications company. His flagship product is The Grid, a fast-growing location-based social network and instant messaging platform. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and co-founder of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system. Before that he was Director of the New Media Lab at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies, the managing director of Digital Commerce and a multimedia director at VWV Interactive.

    He has worked in the online media industry since 1996, has presented papers at many international conferences and specializes in profitable innovation in emerging markets.

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