Catherine Eibner has started a series of podcasts with and about geek girls.
She recently interviewed me about how you can go about setting up a GGD and what it’s all about.
This is a great initiative. I always look forward to the monthly podcasts.
Microsoft, in conjunction with Girl Geek Dinners Sydney is holding a Women in IT luncheon at Tech Ed 2008 in Sydney. Register now (on their site) using the ticket code wit08, as places are limited. I hope to see you all there even if you aren’t Microsofties.
Ticket Code: wit08
Topic: Women in IT – an International Perspective (Keynote & Panel Discussion)
Date: Wednesday 3rd September, 2008
Time: 1.15pm – 2.05pm (lunch available in foyer from 12.45pm
Venue: Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
Room: Bayside Terrace, Level 2
The highlight will be a panel discussing women in IT in an international context. Panelists include:
GGD Chicago has organised their Dinner 0 and you should go along if you are in that part of the world at that time. It’s at ThoughtWorks so it will be a good night. Show them your support and pass this on to anyone you know who might know girl geeks in the Chicago area.
Where:
Aon Building: 200 E Randolph 25th Floor (ThoughtWorks office)
When:
Friday August 22, 2008
5:30 Doors open
6:00 Event begins
8:30 Event ends
Food and Drinks: Appetizers, Wine, and Chocolate fondue fountains
For any questions that evening on directions or building entry, please call Carrie at: (773) 882-1916
Courtesy of Sydney Girl Geek Dinners
The response to our first Girl Geek Dinner has been outstanding! If you’re still interested in attending our event on Friday August 22nd, please send an email to ChicagoGGD@gmail.com with your name or join us on facebook so we can enter you in the AON building’s visitor system. See you tomorrow night!
GGD Chicago has organised their Dinner 0 and you should go along if you are in that part of the world at that time. It’s at ThoughtWorks so it will be a good night. Show them your support and pass this on to anyone you know who might know girl geeks in the Chicago area.
Where:
Aon Building: 200 E Randolph 25th Floor (ThoughtWorks office)
When:
Friday August 22, 2008
5:30 Doors open
6:00 Event begins
8:30 Event ends
Food and Drinks: Appetizers, Wine, and Chocolate fondue fountains
For any questions that evening on directions or building entry, please call Carrie at: (773) 882-1916
Are you a Student between the ages of 15 and 21 based in the UK? Well if you are then you have just come to the right website! This is your opportunity to win £500. Imagine what you could do with that… So what do you need to do… well here’s all the details! If you aren’t a student please pass on the information and give someone you know the opportunity to shine!!! Alternatively put forward a few suggestions for the students here that might just get them started on their video!
Young people in schools and colleges all over the UK are being challenged to create the next `Youtube’ sensation in a major new competition being launched by the University of Dundee.
The Interactive Media Design programme at Dundee is asking 15 to 21-year-olds to make a three-minute video on the theme `Artificially Intelligent’ and post it on the Youtube website (www.youtube.com)
The competition is split into two age groups – 15 to 17-year-olds and 18 to 21-year-olds. The winners in each category will receive a prize of £500.
“Interactive media design is all about matching creativity with the technical know-how to do something like putting together a video and placing it on the web,” said Morna Simpson, lecturer on the IMD degree programme at Dundee.
“Our students do the most amazing work, and are winning some of the best jobs going in high-tech and creative industries. We want to give a big shout about that.”
Young people with creative talent should know that the University of Dundee is the place to come, if you want to do some of the most innovative and ground-breaking work that is going on right now”
Gary Duncan and Andrew Cook, two Interactive Media Design graduates have set the ball rolling by writing, filming, editing and acting in the first “Artificially Intelligent” video.
“It is really good fun!” said Morna, “ A genius piece of work, though I say so myself!.
“Now we want to see what young people around the UK can produce – hopefully we are going to find some real stars through this competition because we are sure there is a lot of untapped talent out there.
“The theme of the competition is fairly broad so the field is wide open to be as creative as possible. We have got some of our students to create an initial video which can be viewed now – the challenge to other young people around the UK is to show us you can do something which really stands out.”
Morna said a site like Youtube gave young people a hugely powerful tool to show off their creative talents.
“The great advantage of something like Youtube is that a project like making a small video can now reach a vast audience very quickly,” said Morna. “ If you look through some of the most popular videos on Youtube you will find that great ideas win over high-tech equipment every time!”
The competition will be open until November. All details can be found on the dedicated website at …http://imd.dundee.ac.uk/competition
The information in this post was sent via Interactive Media Design who is a collaboration between Duncan of Jordanstone College and the School of Computing at the University of Dundee. This unique blend of disciplines gives students the wide range of tools to meet the design challenges of the 21st century.
www.dundee.ac.uk/design/bsc-interactive-design.php.
If you haven’t already seen our recent interview with Steve Bannerman, Marketing Director of Ugobe then do take a look… the Pleo’s a great example of HCI and early stage AI. Let see if we can get a few girl geeks into this competition! It’s a great opportunity!
Hey Everyone!
Our first event is finally here and it will be a great time!
We’re calling it Dinner 0- the goal is to brainstorm ideas for our future events, so if there’s anything in particular you’re interested in talking about or any evenings you’d prefer to meet, we’ll talk about it Friday!
Confirming details and directions below. Let us know (chicagoggd@gmail.com) if you have any questions. If you’re unable to make it, no problem- we’ll see you next time!
Where:
Aon Building: 200 E Randolph 25th Floor (ThoughtWorks office)
See directions below for getting to and entering the building
When:
Friday August 22, 2008
5:30 Doors open
6:00 Event begins
8:30 Event ends
Food and Drinks: Appetizers, Wine, and Chocolate fondue fountains
For any questions that evening on directions or building entry, please call Carrie at: (773) 882-1916
Thanks and hope to see you Friday!
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Directions to AON and entering building:
AON: As the second tallest building in Chicago, security at the Aon Center is rather tight. All guests are required to show proof of identification through valid picture IDs. Once you arrive at the building, please enter through the South lobby doors located on Randolph Street and proceed to the Guest Registration Center. Building Greeters will welcome guests, locate their names on the I-Visitor system, request photo identification, and print guest badges. Guests will then be directed through the automatic portals, allowing unescorted access to the building elevator banks. Please use the elevators in the lower lobby labeled Levels 21-37. Exit the elevator on the 25th floor and proceed to the reception area.
Directions to Garage:
From the North:
Lake Shore Drive South to Randolph Drive Exit (turn right). Drive 2 blocks to Columbus Drive (stop light) (turn right) (immediately into the left lane). Drive one block to Lake Street (stop light) (turn left). Drive ½ block, entrance to the garage is located on the left side of the Lake Street.
From the South:
Lake Shore Drive North to Randolph Drive Exit (turn left). Drive 2 blocks to Columbus Drive (stop light) (turn right) (immediately into the left lane). Drive one block to Lake Street (stop light) (turn left). Drive ½ block, entrance to the parking garage is located on the left side of Lake Street.
From the West (I 90/I 94 – Dan Ryan/O’Hare Airport):
Ohio Street exit East to Michigan Avenue (turn right). Drive 2 blocks (past the river) to Inter. South Water Street (stop light) (turn left). Drive ½ block to Inter. Stetson Street (stop sign) (turn right) the road will curve east, Entrance to the parking garage is on the right.
From the West (I 290 – Eisenhower):
Congress East to Columbus Drive (turn left). Drive about 1½ miles(1block past Randolph Drive) to Lake Street (turn left). Entrance to the parking garage is located on the left side of Lake Street.
Expect to spend between $20 and $25 on parking.
CTA:
CTA Red, Brown, Green, Purple and Orange Lines have stops that are within easy walking distance of the Aon Center. For more information please visit RTA Tripsweb
I hope everyone has had a fabulous summer! Amazon has graciously offered to sponsor the next Girl Geek Dinner. The date is set for Thursday, September 11th @ 5:30pm.
Please let us know if you think you can come by registering at our EventBrite site.
Stay tuned: more information to come regarding the agenda and guest speakers!
Address: Pac Med Bldg
Conference rooms: AV West, East, and Central – 8th floor
1200 12th Ave South, Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98144
Click here for map
Thanks!
Liz
On Thursday the 14th of August, GGD Sydney held our latest event. It was a night of champagne, cheese and a chocolate fountain brought to 70 girl geeks by ThoughtWorks.
Maria Milosavljevic, CTO of Capital Markets CRC spoke about looking at an academic career as an alternative to the usual industry track that we take in our lives. The description of roles that would allow people to put their computer science degrees to full use was attractive to many in the audience.
ThoughtWorks engineers Liz Douglass and Julian Parry gave a hugely popular talk about Test Driven Development. Their talk had audience participation, coding examples and lots of laughs. If you’d like a copy of the slides for their talk, just ask me. Jules was our first male speaker.
Cyndi Mitchell, the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios spoke about Dynamic Languages and how they can be used to solve the current issues with Enterprise bloat. Cyndi is our first international speaker.
Suzi Edwards was a fabulous hostess and kept the crowd going with spinal checks, speed networking and lots of good humour. She also took a lot of fantastic photos which you see in this post. For more pictures, see Suzi’s flickr photo stream.
After the last Toronto Girl Geek dinner, I promised to do a project to aggregate all the Toronto Girl Geek blogs into a single feed. Won’t it be cool to subscribe to one feed and get all the content from our community?
Don’t be shy. All Toronto Girl Geek blogs and podcasts are welcome.
All you need to do is follow the template over on our wiki and add your blog to the list.
Once we’ve got a few blogs together, I’ll create a Yahoo! Pipe with everyone’s feeds, and publish it here on our blog, on the wiki and the Facebook Group.
I know a bunch of you gals are bloggers, so I’m really looking forward to having a quick and easy way to read your posts and share thoughts and ideas.
Hi friends of GGD Chicago! We will be using this site to post upcoming events and updates. So check back often! Or better, add it to your feeds!
With Just 2 weeks until our first dinner, we’ve sent out a survey to those with tickets. We’re also making it available for anyone else who’d like to send us feedback. You can download it here.
On Tuesday 5th August, 70 geeks gathered in the Emperor Suite at Chow from 6pm till late. The event was so popular, ticket sales sold out in 2 days, and there was a waiting list for any cancellations/no shows. Each guest received a bag of goodies including a bottle of Epic Lager, laser cut decorated [...]
The three year anniversary event is now full. I have requested that Google now open up the reserves list but will let you know as soon as this is available. Please bear with us. I have also requested they make known the drop out e-mail address for anyone who drops out at the last minute. (hopefully those signed up should get an e-mail regarding this within the next 24 hours (keeping my fingers crossed!)
Hi I thought you guys might be working on some cool projects and interested in the opportunity to take them to the next level.
From securing funding to developing the right network, young entrepreneurs in Europe face challenges in building globally competitive technology businesses. Through the provision of seed capital and a world class network of mentors, we want to provide a catalyst for Europe’s next generation of entrepreneurs. Applications are now open (http://application.seedcamp.com/) and being accepted till August 10th. More details are on our website and blog (www.seedcamp.com and blog.seedcamp.com).
Seedcamp is where Europe’s top young founders can come together in one place.
The three year anniversary event is now full. I have requested that Google now open up the reserves list but will let you know as soon as this is available. Please bear with us. I have also requested they make known the drop out e-mail address for anyone who drops out at the last minute. (hopefully those signed up should get an e-mail regarding this within the next 24 hours (keeping my fingers crossed!)
In the meantime whilst Google are sorting themselves out with the above I have created a temporary reserves list which I will add into the Google reserves list as soon as it is available.
Girl Geek Dinners have been going now for almost three years! (Officially that would be 3 years on the 16th August 2008 but due to venue availability we are celebrating on the 28th instead!) So we had a long think about the perfect place for a reasonably large girl geek birthday/ anniversary party and came to the conclusion that Google are great hosts with the perfect space, so we asked them if they would like to join us in our celebration! Lucky for us they said yes!!!
We thought it was a good chance to get together, share some wine, food and conversation!
It should be a fun event and one that I hope you will all enjoy. There is only one release of tickets for this event. After which a reserves list will be created. Tickets will be strictly on a first come first served basis. Sign up early to avoid disappointment. We will also do our best to live stream the event via UStream.tv to here and the girlgeekdinners.com site.
Girl Geek Dinners have been going now for almost three years! (Officially that would be 3 years on the 16th August 2008) So we had a long think about the perfect place for a reasonably large girl geek birthday/ anniversary party and came to the conclusion that Google are great hosts with the perfect space, so we asked them if they would like to join us in our celebration! Lucky for us they said yes!!!
We thought it was a good chance to get together, share some wine, food and conversation!
It should be a fun event and one that I hope you will all enjoy. There is only one release of tickets for this event. After which a reserves list will be created. Tickets will be strictly on a first come first served basis. Sign up early to avoid disappointment. We will also do our best to live stream the event via UStream.tv to here and the girlgeekdinners.com site.
We had a great time at our London Girl Geek Dinner on the 25th June with IT4C and the talks were fantastic. This was a must attend event for anyone who has a bit of spare time and likes to create things and work with others.
UPDATE: here’s the video, with the slides below. Sarah Blow introduced the speakers:
The slides give most of the information that you would need to get involved with IT4Communities and AbilityNet:
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