Iceland Girl Geek Dinners
December 8, 2008 8:13 pm News
On a gloomy October day when the world seemed to be falling apart a girl on a small deserted island in the Atlantic ocean stumbled upon a BBC World Service radio program that put a spring in her step. In the program a girl geek was interviewed on a super cool idea called Girl Geek Dinner. There was hope, there was a light, this had to be brought to Iceland.
The girl geek, Kristin, didn’t waste any time. She immediately emailed Sarah Blow (the interviewee) and a few friends and only 3 weeks later the first Arctic Girl Geek dinner was held.
The biggest problem did not prove to be finding girl geeks in Iceland (a Facebook group now includes 170 girl geeks) or a place to meet. The biggest challenge proved to be decided what to call a girl geek in Icelandic. It may be indicative that girl geeks in Iceland have until now not had a proper noun to describe them. A panel of Icelandic scholars was recruited which came up with the word tæknitáta (pronunciation: thai-kn
-tout 
). The word literally means technology chick. Needless to say it was an instant success.
Already the second meeting has been called. For anyone in the area interested meeting some technology chicks and learning a bit about IT in search and rescue, please join us at the premises of the search and rescue squad Arsaell, at Grandagardur 1 in Reykjavik on December 11th at 18:00.
With warm regards from Christmasy Iceland, 
Magga Dora – tæknitáta
December 9th, 2008 at 6:40 am
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