Next Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is on Mon 12 July 18:30 in the heart of Brussels. This time it’s a female only edition, with up to 40 girl geeks this time.
Dujardinstore.com is the rebirth of a very famous traditional Belgian brand back in the 20th century, now relaunched through a complete new business model focusing on e-commerce.
The collections are 100% made in top-quality cashmere, targeted at male and female who like tradition with a touch of glam, and who are rapidly becoming addicted to the softness of the cashmere….
Top-quality cashmere, partially hand-made in best Italian factory at affordable prices are made possible through this new economic model, without any distributor.
Still, Dujardinstore.com has a few ambassadors boutiques in Brussels, Knokke, Spa, La Hulpe, Paris,…(and more to come) where customers can try the clothes on before ordering online via iPads made available for them in the boutiques.
At Dujardinstore.com, we strongly believe the new technologies are changing our ways of consuming and buying products and we would be very pleased to show you how it works for us while let you discover in an exclusive avant-première our fall/winter 2010 collection !
Tom Palmaerts (@palmaerts on Twitter) is a trendwatcher, coolhunter, speaker, photographer and blogger. He works for Trendwolves and specialises in youth culture, trends and online communities.
For the curious: the results from the poll for primary e-mail address are 46% Gmail, 18% Hotmail, 12% work address, 11% Telenet, 8% other, 5% Yahoo and 1% Skynet.
Well, the winner is not a girl geek but a male guest (or sacoche as we like to call them): Gerrit Vromant (@vromant) with his idea for a Walkie-Talkie data-call application:
What the jury liked:
Nice app that combines various functions of the phone (maybe combined with GPS)
We are going to the vacation time here you can Talk to your whole family at the same time a great new way to communicating
the app is social but e.g. in your family and it combines voice with a twitter like function.
The 32nd edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners is planned for Tuesday 22 June 18:30-21:00 in Brussels. Wiki will open up shortly. But first: please fill out this survey on Information Overload, or as we prefer to call it: infobesitas.
Some people think that Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is an organisation. I think it’s really a network, and depending on the channel some of the nodes are more active than others. This twitter list explorer tool is not perfect, but it provides a nice snapshop of the Brussels girl geeks who are active on Twitter, and who’s talking to whom.
Tonight Tuesday8 June, 25 Belgian Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.
The world of games is still considered as a man’s bastion by some.
However: the past few years lots of women started gaming.
This is why on Tuesday the 8th of June, PR’ins and Brussels Girl Geek Dinner organize an heroic ‘battle of the sexes‘ in the heart of Antwerp. 25 Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.
Red Dead Redemption is a sandbox-style action-adventure western video game with role-playing elements developed by Rockstar and released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 2010.
The game takes place in the year 1911 in the American Old West territory and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he tries to save his wife and son, taken by government agents, by capturing and killing his former gang members.
Get your hair cut for free @ Tony & Guy, help cancer survivors Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #30 is actually a trendy haircutting evening at Toni&Guy (”the most powerful hairdressing brand on the planet”) in Antwerp, organised by Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat. So if you have a healthy pony tail of at least 20 cm and want a new trendy summer look, come and have your hair cut for free at this event and donate your pony tail to help women with cancer.
But what exactly is Pantene Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat? Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat is an initiative of Pantene, in cooperation with Stichting tegen Kanker/Fondation contre le Cancer, that aims to provide emotional and financial support to men and women who have lost their hair as a result of cancer. The initiative encourages Belgians to donate their hair so it can be made into a wig.
What if your hair isn’t long enough?
No worries if you don’t want or can’t cut 20 centimeters: you can have your hair
washed, cut and brushed for 25 euros by the Toni&Guy-team and this amount will be applied to the Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat Fund.
Now it’s time to hear about your plans and dreams!
What are your motivations to become a digital nomad? In about a month, on Friday 11 June, a jury of Telenet representatives will pick the most inspiring motivation. You can publish you motivation anywhere you like (your own blog, in the comments to this post, on Twitter) but make sure we can trace them: put a link back to http://www.brusselsgirlgeekdinner.be/?p=601 and http://www.telenetconnect.be/.
With a single TelenetConnect account you have unlimited worldwide access to more than 140,000 hotspots worldwide in airports, cafés, restaurants, traffic hubs and many other handy locations, for a fixed monthly fee. If there’s no wireless network available you can access the Internet via your home network, via Ethernet (mostly hotels) or even via a dial-up line. TelenetConnect runs on your Mac, Netbook and on your Nokia, iPhone or Blackberry or any other mobile device – all at the same time.
stephemory: Thanks to everyone who presented (especially those who gave me great Dutch practice!!!) at tonight’s #BGGD29
innekepoes: Forgot to thank Clo for once again a very inspiring #bggd29 my son has already tested the #Telenet mouse & gave me very good reason to blog
DesignArenas: Inspiring evening at #bggd29 thanks to all sponsors for the bag of things, my son will love the black fleece blanket
Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #29 is on Wednesday 12 May at Telenet, Mechelen. It’s fully booked, but put your name on the wiki’s reserve list – we usually get all the reserves in.
NOMADZNU Nomadz.nu is about two thirty something girl geeks Catherine & Ine realizing their dream: to go and travel for one year meanwhile working remotely. While they freelance their way around the world, they document their social experiment in “Lifestyle Design” through Flickr pictures, Twitter updates and blogposts. Main stops include Cape Town, Thailand & Buenos Aires.
Ine has a degree in photography and webdesign & a postgraduate degree in art. While visiting Iraq, she became fascinated by the Middle East and took off to live and study in Israel. During this trip, she started blogging at a time when the word ‘blogging’ barely existed.
Today, she combines her passion (photography) with her ‘geeky’ side (webdesign) in her company Matuvu.
Catherine has a masters degree in philosophy and a postgraduate in marketing communication. Upon graduation she was offered a job as a researcher in logics at the University of Gent.
Today she owns her own online communication company focusing on small companies within the lifestyle & design field.
LIFESTYLE DESIGN
With his book “The 4-Hour Workweek”, Timothy Ferris introduced the term ‘lifestyle design’ to the world. Lifestyle design is about styling your life in the way you’d like it to be, based on the experiences you’d like to have. To do everything you want to do (experiences) and to be everything you want to be (being) are central concepts in it.
It’s all about the ‘here’ and ‘now’. skiïng in Japan, writing a book, discovering far off countries, or running marathons in all parts of life are experiences our society considers to be only accessible to the extremely rich or the retired. Lifestyle Design adepts are convinced that, by using certain lifehacks, a bit of creativity and ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking, this lifestyle can be accessible to both you and me. So, why not live the life you want to, right now?
All 80 attendees of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #28 get a free 12 month subscription to the Nomadesk file server. They will find their promotional code inside the goodie bag.But what exactly is Nomadesk?
Nomadesk is the easiest and most secure way to share your files with colleagues,suppliers, customers, … over the internet. Nomadesk is a virtual fileserver onyour computer which acts as a traditional hard drive to which you can easily dragand drop files. Your documents can be accessed both online and offline.
The Brussels Girl Geek Dinner (with Café Numérique, at the Mirano) has been postponed from 8 June to a date later that month. We’ll announce the new date as soon as possible.
In the meanwhile, we’re planning another Gaming Edition – possibly on Wednesday 9 June in Antwerp.
SE-dot is the Sony Ericsson platform where you can share ideas for phone functionalities or applications that you would love to have. Share your most crazy or revolutionary idea on the platform, promote it and let other people comment on it. In about a month, on Thursday 10 June, a jury of Belgian Sony Ericsson representatives will pick the most popular and inspiring idea. The winner gets to take home an Xperia™ X10. Don’t forget to post a link to your idea in the comments!
Electrified 02 – Hacking public spaces, the second edition of S.M.A.K. and the Vooruit ’s biennial art project, takes up a decisive position on the crossroads of several directions in the visual arts. At the same time it will expose the friction between the areas where the two institutions operate: the S.M.A.K. in contemporary art and the Vooruit in media art, sound and performance art. In the quest for a shared ‘mentality’ in these different dynamics, the public space is taken as a common thread. In this case, the term ‘public space’ is all-embracing, without losing sight of the actual distinction between real and virtual public space.
About the artist (from Vooruit.be):
In her work, Roberta Gigante (b. 1986, Arpino, Italy) explores relationships between public space, image and sound. More specifically, she examines the resonance frequencies of various objects and how sound behaves as an ‘image’. As part of Electrified02, Gigante will be going to the harbour in Ghent. It is not so much the setting that interests her as the site, where twelve gigantic metal pipes are being stored. The pipes lie next to one another, like separate organ pipes waiting to be brought together in one instrument. Each pipe – depending on its thickness, diameter and length – has its own resonance frequency, which is recorded and then used as a keynote in a site-specific sound installation. In OrganOOn the artist ‘hacks’ the port site in Ghent with a sound installation that appeals to the imagination and will be activated just once, namely on Sunday 5 of May, 2010. This unusual organ concert also questions the classical organisation and setting in which concerts like this are held.
Good news! The month of May is packed with interesting girl geek dinners and for the 27th, 28th and 29th edition you can finally bring male guests again. Feel free to bring your sacoche!
Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #28
Sun 9 May 13:30 – 17:00
Speaker: Roberta Gigante on OrganOOn, her contribution to Hacking Public Spaces.
Thanks to Vooruit S.M.A.K. + the port site, Ghent
Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #29
Wed 12 May 18:30-21:00
Speakers: Ine and Catherine (http://nomadz.nu/) on Travelling geeks.
Thanks to Telenet Telenet, Mechelen (Wifi available)
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