Why do girl geeks thrive in the Colorado Front Range? Besides being a beautiful place to live, in the high desert at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, it’s a high tech mecca for both large companies (Sun, Quantum, HP, IBM, Level 3…) and startups (see http://boulder.me/). And where can you find us? Well here of course!
Canberra, Australia’s national capital city, has a reputation for being smart, but boring. The inaugural Canberra Girl Geek Dinner is aiming to change that by making it smart and FUN. Lana Brindley got bored of the beer and pizza geek events quite quickly, and decided to inject some excitement into the local scene. Canberra Girl Geek dinners aim to take advantage of the unique Canberra lifestyle, by arranging interesting and innovative events with, for and about some of the nations best and brightest girl geeks.
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I’m happy to announce Girl Geeks Boston! As the home of MIT, BioTech Industry, Microsoft Research Labs, a new Google office, and so much more, it’s no surprise there are quite a few girl geeks in town. Now we have a place to congregate over delicious food!
Participate online by joining our Facebook Group, following us on Twitter at bostongirlgeek and subscribing or posting on the Boston Girl Geek blog, and participate in person by attending our next event in January. Hope to see you there!
(Post Via Rachel Murray of Boston Girl Geek Dinners)
Charlotte is located in North Carolina and very close to the South Carolina border. It is the nation’s second largest financial center and home to the Carolina Panthers. Charlotte is also close to the Smoky Mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean and now has one more thing that it can offer too!
I am excited to bring Girl Geek Dinners to the Girl Geeks of the Carolinas! Look out for the details of their first event some time in Feb – March!
(Intro via Regina Bard Spagnardi of Carolina Girl Geek Dinners)
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
A little while back I got a request about starting a Girl Geek Dinner in Hull, so I sent out the details… a few short weeks later… and they are all set for their first event! Now that’s what I call quick! So without any further delay, if you live or work around Hull and class yourself as a Girl Geek (or a Geek) then do pop over to Facebook and see what their first event is all about.
The first event is sponsored by Hull University. I’m hoping that the local community will get behind them and that some of the local Girl Geeks will also find it interesting too!
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
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.
Congratulations to Despina Bakirtzi for all her hard work! Greece Girl Geek Dinners has now launched! The first Greece Girl Geek Dinner event will be held on the 25th June and is sponsored by Sony Walkman!!!
If you are interested and up for meeting up with other Girl Geeks in Greece then this is you’re portal!
