Month: March 2009

March Reading Girl Geek Dinner – Thank You!

[tweetmeme source=readinggd]Sponsored by Symantec

The second Reading Girl Geek Dinner of 2009 took place on Monday 23rd March at La Tasca, with delicious tapas and great networking. We can confirm that local networks do work!

Thanks for coming along and making it a success.  With 30 geeks and girl geeks based in and around Reading, conversations with new contacts and catching up with old friends made the event most enjoyable.

Special thanks to Symantec for their kind sponsorship and goodie bags for the attendees.

The event was co-hosted by Stuart Stoter, Girl Geek founder Sarah Blow and Mireia Fontbernat.

We look forward to seeing you at the next one on Thursday 23rd April – Stay tuned for registration and details.

London Girl Geeks and SCI-FI-LONDON Event

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14th April 2009 :: cosmic news, sci-fi fans, space for another 30 people has materialised due to a rip in the space-time continuum, or something, so we’ve just added these tickets — set your diaries to stun come!

We’re in orbit over the April 2009 London Girl Geek event which we’re holding jointly with the groovy individuals at SCI-FI-LONDON who are also kindly sponsoring the event to be held at the Apollo West End Theatre on Regent Street.

The event will commence at 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start with talks on sci-fi film and fiction from the below speakers. The event will flow on to the cinema bar afterwards, and films will be showing from 7.45pm if any attendees wish to book separately. On which, Girl Geeks attending this event are eligible for a 10% discount on SCI-FI-LONDON cinema tickets that evening, just quote London Girl Geeks!

As per details from the SCI-FI-LONDON website (do visit to learn more about what’s happening during their annual festival taking place from 29th April to 4th May), speakers will include:

  • Dr Rachel Armstrong :: Dr Armstrong trained as a doctor at both Cambridge and Oxford and is a qualified General Practitioner, however, her career as a doctor has been far from conventional. Her concern for patients disfigured by the scars of leprosy led her on a journey that questioned assumptions about what ‘normal’ human anatomy is, or indeed, whether there is anything ‘natural’ about us at all. Dr Armstrong will present a resume of her adventures in practical Science Fiction over the last ten years, revealing a shocking portrait of human identity through the work of radical performance artists and leading to her current work that challenges notions of ‘life’ itself. [Warning хочу секс самара : Not for the squeamish or easily morally outraged.]
  • Additional Speaker :: TBA

Many thanks to Sara & Louis from SCI-FI-LONDON for arranging the space and making things happen!

Full Details:

  • Date & Time: Thursday, 30th April 2009, 6:00 for 6.30pm
  • End Time: The event will finish at 8.00pm, with those interested flowing on to the cinema bar for more conversations
  • Venue: Apollo West End Theatre, 19 Regent Street, see Directions for more details!
  • Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners and SCI-FI-LONDON
  • Food & Drink: Light dips and drinks provided courtesy of SCI-FI-LONDON
  • Subject for the evening: Girl Geeks in Practical Science Fiction
  • Format: Reception, two short talks, conversation.
  • Capacity: 90 people
  • Attendees:
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    As ever, boy geeks are welcome to attend if invited by a girl geek although on this occasion we do stress that there are few and limited spaces so more boy geeks = less girl geeks.

If you’d like to attend on 30th April, please sign up at http://scifilondonlggd.eventbrite.com, and we’ll see you at the event!

Tea Time with London Girl Geek Dinners

The Belgian & French Girl Geeks have organised a day out in London on Saturday, March 14th and they’d love to meet up with some London Girl Geeks for an afternoon of tea, mobile computing and networking in Knightsbridge.
Our European compadres have organised for the event to take place at the Berkeley Hotel kindly sponsored by Eurostar, commencing at 3.30pm for a 6pm finish. An informal presentation will be arranged to demo a mobile social application they’re developing for the day. This is a fantastic opportunity to make new friends, see a great mobile application demonstrated, and enjoy a rather scrumptious Saturday afternoon tea in London.

Only 40 spots are available and tickets tend to go quickly, so please do only request a ticket if you *will* be attending as otherwise others will miss out – if you find you can’t make it for any reason, do let us know as we might be able to allocate your ticket to another Girl Geek – thank you!

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Sponsor: Eurostar
Time: 3.30 to 6pm
Date: Saturday, 14th March 2009
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Location: The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge

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Map of Gaps – #mapofgaps

About a week ago I got a call from an interesting guy called Drew, and we were talking about the campaign below… As a result we thought we’d share here on the London Girl Geek Dinners site a few rather alarming statistics and a way to help bring about change!

The crux of the Map of Gaps campaign is this: Over 3 million women suffer violence in the UK each year, but not even ¼ of local authorities provide any specialised services to help them relocate, seek justice through the legal system or recover mentally and physically. London, for example, has only one rape crisis centre.

We want to bring pressure to bear to address this problem. You can help us by visiting the Map of Gaps website (http://www.mapofgaps.org/) to learn more, and blogging about your reaction to the campaign. If you use twitter you might want to hashtag #mapofgaps on your tweets.

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Reading Girl Geek Dinner 3 Announced

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[tweetmeme source=readinggd]We’re thrilled to announce our second 2009 Reading Girl Geek event which is sponsored by Symantec and will be held at La Tasca right in the middle of Reading.

The event will commence at 6.30pm with some simple networking so do remember to bring your business cards with you.

The theme of the evening will be Local Networks: What do you get from networking? How do you build your network? what do you get from networking? Are social and work networks truly independent?

This is expected to be a fun, practical way of sharing your ideas.

When you head off you’ll also receive a fun little goodie bag… I’m not going to tell you what’s in it… that’s a surprise… all part of the fun of goodie bags!


Many thanks to Kate from Symantec and her team for arranging the goodie bags and sponsorship!

Full Details:

  • Date & Time: Monday, 23rd March 2009, 6:30pm for a 7pm start
  • End Time: Late
  • Venue: La Tasca, Reading
  • Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners and Symantec
  • Food & Drink: Lovely Spanish Tapas food, buy your own drinks
  • Subject for the evening: Local Networks
  • Format: Reception, Dinner, Conversation
  • Capacity: 40 people
  • Attendees: As ever, boy geeks are welcome to attend if invited by a girl geek although on this occasion we do stress that there are few and limited spaces so more boy geeks = less girl geeks.

If you’d like to attend on 23rd March, please sign up via the above Register Now button, and we’ll see you at the event!