This presentation was put together by Glennette Clark. She spoke on this topic a NoVA Girl Geek Dinner #4 and I for one, found it very interesting.
A little late, but we had NoVA Girl Geek #4, which was also our one year anniversary last month and had such a great time.
I want to thank everyone who came out, It was nice seeing familiar faces and meeting new people.
A special thanks to Melanie (@sisarina on twitter) who heads up the #DCTwirlies, #DCTweetup and #DCTwixr events; for hipping me to Nando’s Peri Peri. It is such a great location to hold events like our girl geek dinners AND their food is seriously yummy.
An extra special thanks to Glennette Clark (@glennette) of Lazy Smart | UX and Jen Consalvo (@Noreaster) of Shiny Heart Ventures for speaking.
We are planning NoVA Girl Geek #5, the last girl geek dinner for 2009, so stay tuned for more details on that. If you’d like to speak/present at this dinner, please send us an email or a DM on Twitter.
We want to thank everyone for coming to NoVA Girl Geek Dinner #3. It was really great meeting and talking with so many new people.
Thanks to Ghina (I believe she’s who suggested Continental), who suggested Continental Modern Pool Lounge as a place to hold the event. Excellent choice. We had a blast.
We are already thinking about the next event. As always, we welcome your suggestions.
Until then, you can follow us on twitter:
@novagirlgeeks
Jessica is @JessicaMMoss
Naomi is @digitialfangirl
A few photos will be soon to follow on this post…
She’s Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia – the DC Area.
April 18th McLean Virginia (Tyson’s Corner).
http://www.shesgeeky.org/
Early bird admission is $40 until April 1 – $45 regular until April 11 and $50 after that.
Student admission is $20
It’s spring time and we are ready to get out to have a little fun. We are so happy the first two events were such a success. We hope everyone comes out for this social event, so we can all let our hair down, mingle and have a great time.
We’ve decided to host this event at the Continental Modern Pool Lounge - http://www.modernpoollounge.com/photos.html, which came highly recommended by some geeky ladies.
Please note: This will be a non-sponsored event.
*INVITATION*
She’s Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia – the DC Area.
April 18th McLean Virginia (Tyson’s Corner).
http://www.shesgeeky.org/
Early bird admission is $40 until April 1 – $45 regular until April 11 and $50 after that.
Student admission is $20
We are inviting women from a divers range of industries together for a day of interactive learning and industry cross pollination.
To us Geekiness is self defined – from those with advanced degrees in mathematics, science and engineering. To skilled programmers who are in large enterprises, government or startups. To women who have taught themselves how to code the PHP on their side bars on their blog or just super enthusiastic users of technology.
Each city has a different mix of technologies – DC has a variety of fields
* the nonprofit and advocacy sectors,
* government, defense, aerospace, and intelligence
* Web portals – like AOL
* startups innovating
The range of topics discussed is diverse – in California you can see the list of sessions.
http://shesgeeky.org/wiki/Sg2009wc:Notes
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*How does the unconference day work?*
The sessions are put forward by the women who attend the event – and are diverse. They include expert topics about their particular expertise, hosting conversations about issues of interest both technical and personal (like how to balance work and family), exploring start-up ideas, introductions or deep dives to different programming languages or frameworks, sharing stories about what it was like to work in the early days of the industry, introduction to public speaking and many others.
Beginning at 9 AM each day, we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, through a highly participative process, create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone there.
From there, we go to separate areas or rooms assigned to each topic. The session can be a presentation, inquiry about a question or discussion about an issue or technical field. or. One participant volunteers to record the proceedings.
The notes from each session are collected in the newsroom, then a book is compiled with all the notes from the conference and distributed to everyone who attended.
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Sponsorship opportunities for both small and large companies are available too.
If you have questions you can e-mail us at info@shesgeeky.org
@Chelly527 Considering they just did a redesign a few months ago, this one was a shock. But I kinda like it. It’s almost a twitter clone.
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