Here’s a poster for our next event – print one out and put it up! You can register for the event here:
http://bristolggd.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn
Category: UK
Bristol Wikimedia Academy Event – 19th March
I recently spoke to Steve Virgin at Wikimedia about this event, which looks like it might present some very exciting opportunities for Girl Geeks in Bristol. It’s on Saturday 23rd March from 9:40am – 4pm at the Merchant Venturers building at Bristol Uni.
They would like as many Girl Geeks in attendance as possible so we hope to see you down there. Click on the flyer picture for more info.
Next Girl Geek Dinner – Wednesday 23rd March 2011 at Bristol University
Our next Girl Geek Event is going to be at Bristol University on 23rd March from 6pm. We will be serving a free buffet and the guest speaker will be Ann Blandford, Professor of Human–Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. For more details, and to register for this event, please go to our ‘next dinner’ page.
New Year – New Events!
After getting off to a great start last February with some fabulous speakers and sponsors, life and work got in the way for us at Bristol Girl Geek Dinners and we ended the year rather quietly.
This year we’re happy to announce we are back and we’re determined not to lose momentum – but to do this we need your help. If anyone can spare a few hours a week to help with admin getting sponsors or organising or hosting events then we’d love to hear from you!
To start the year we’re going to have an informal social event at the Watershed in Bristol this will be on Thursday 27th January at 7pm.
We are also planning our first formal dinner of 2011 for March and details will be available here as soon as they are confirmed.
GGD 5th Anniversary Dinner
This Thursday (23rd September), we held our Reading Girl Geek Dinner event, which was a very special one: Girl Geek Dinners was turning five!
And to celebrate it, we had GGD’s founder, Sarah Blow, with a very interesting talk about “How It All Began”. It was news for some, and very nice for all of us to remember or find out how GGD started 5 years ago.
The event was held at Glo, very fitting venue, abundant and nice food and with lots of good conversation. It was great to see new and familiar faces: thanks to those of you who came along, despite the terrible showers that happened precisely when we were supposed to start.
Thank you as well to our kind sponsors, DediPower, who supported us on this very special occasion – and also provided some goodie bags for the attendees.
We will soon be planning our next event, which will be in late November. Let us know if you are interested in speaking or sponsoring and, in any case, we hope to see you at the next Reading GGD!
5th Anniversary Dinner – 23 September
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[tweetmeme source=readinggd] We’re thrilled to announce our September 2010 Reading Girl Geek Dinner, which is also Girl Geek Dinner’s 5th Anniversary, at Glo in central Reading. This event is kindly sponsored by DediPower.
You can come any time from 6.30pm with some networking; dinner will follow and we will have some more time for networking after the meal.
Being the 5th Anniversary, we are delighted to have a great speaker: none other but the founder of Girl Geek Dinners, Sarah Blow.
The topic is “Where It All Began”.
The event will commence at 6.30pm; dim sum dinner will follow from 7pm and we will have some time for networking during and after the meal.
As usual, come prepared to share ideas, be inspired and meet like-minded people. In a nutshell: join us to have a great evening.
Thanks to DediPower for supporting this event.
Full Details:
- Date & Time: Thursday, 23rd September, 6:30pm for a 7pm start
- End Time: Late
- Venue: Glo, Reading
- Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners
- Food & Drink: Dim sum, buy your own drinks
- Subject for the evening: Where It All Began
- 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 September, please sign up via the Register Now button below, and we’ll see you at the event!
23 September Reading GGD: 5th Anniversary
We hope you are enjoying the summer – despite the occasional rain!
Some of you know already, but Girl Geek Dinners is turning five this year! At Reading Girl Geek Dinners we want to have our Anniversary dinner, and this is set for Thursday, 23rd September.
Eventbrite site for registration will be up very soon.
Sponsors Wanted
In the meantime, we have a great opportunity for a sponsor willing to support this next event. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested and/or want some more information: @readingggd or post a comment here.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing many of you on the 23rd.
5th Anniversary Dinner @ Google UK – Winners Announced
London Girl Geek Dinners is turning 5 and we wanted to celebrate! As well as growing our member list, we’ve also arranged a 5th Anniversary dinner to be held at Google UK, with help from our very generous sponsors.
The birthday events are always very popular, and this year has been no exception. We decided to enter everyone who wanted a place into a raffle, and our lucky winners are now listed below. We look forward to seeing you on 4th August!
If you don’t see your name below then we’re really sorry. London Girl Geek Dinners is reliant on volunteers and the generosity of our sponsors, and we’re only able to do so much, but please keep an eye out, we really value your membership and we have lots of exciting stuff lined up!
LGGD 5th Anniversary Ticket Holders:
| Alan B | laila |
| Alice V | Lai-P |
| Amaal M | Laura G |
| Amanda C | Laura B |
| Amy H | Leila G |
| Anahí V | LJ R |
| Angela S | Louise M |
| Ann W | Lu L |
| Anne S | Lucy H |
| Bob G | Lucy S |
| Cheryl M | Luica M |
| Chris O | Lulu P |
| Christina B | Lynette K |
| Claire S | Maartje A |
| Clare C | Maggie B |
| Cynthia R | Mairead C |
| Daphne C | Margaret G |
| Dav B | marina m |
| David R | Marley P |
| Debbie T | mary b |
| Dianne M | Mecca I |
| Divinia K | Mia R |
| Dot R | Mikhaila B |
| Elizabeth V | Nancy S |
| Emily Collins | Natasha O |
| Emma G | Nick S |
| Ena E | Ortis D |
| Felicity T | Pascale P |
| Fox T | Qubra D |
| Frances M | rachel a |
| Francesca T | Rachel L |
| Gail H | Rachel C |
| Georgina M | Rachel L |
| Glenn M | Rachelle T |
| hana s | Richard F |
| Helen T | Sara P |
| Helen T | Sara F |
| Ines S | Sarah B |
| Jackie H | sarah c |
| Jacqui H | Sarah Y |
| Janet B | Sarah B |
| Janet P | Sharold B |
| Janet H | Sheila F |
| Jo M | Sonia H |
| Jo T | Sophie S |
| Judith L | Stephanie V |
| Juliette vR | Stephen L |
| Karen B | Sue D |
| Karen F | Sue B |
| Kate r | Toni B |
| Kathi K | Tricia M |
| Kiki M | Trudie L |
| Kirstyn L | Verity H |
| Kuan H | Vicky W |
| Zoe S | wen z |
Win a trip to Rome!
Make a video mash-up for Red Bull X-Fighters and win a trip to Rome!
Red Bull and Dave TV are calling on the UK’s aspiring editors and filmmakers to take Red Bull’s archive of X-Fighters footage, images and sounds to create a high-energy mash-up that gets the adrenaline pumping for the Red Bull X-Fighters event in London.
The winner will be Red Bull’s VIP guests at the two remaining stops of the X-Fighters World Tour at London’s Battersea Power Station and the season’s finale in Rome! They’ll also have their film played on joinDave.co.uk, in cinemas across the UK and at the London leg of the X-Fighters World Tour.
The theme selected is “Red Bull X-Fighters is coming to London”, the winning film will need to sum up in just 30 seconds the high intensity, extreme nature of the X-Fighters World Tour.
Entrants must be 18+ and once they’ve created their mash up, they should upload it to Youtube or Vimeo and send it to the Red Bull team by Monday 19th July.
Head to http://uktv.co.uk/dave/homepage/sid/8312 now for further info!
London Girl Geek Dinners 5th Anniversary Event at Google UK
It’s that time of the year again – London Girl Geek Dinners is turning FIVE YEARS OLD!
Yes that’s right, five years of bringing girl geeks in London a chance to meet, mingle network, find out about some great tech firms, find a new job, go shopping and enjoy learning. We have had some phenomenal sponsors over the last five years and for our birthday we have a dazzling array of them.
This year, we have a limited number of tickets (80) so we’ve decided to do a raffle. You can go into the newbie lottery if you are new (and thus aren’t on any of our attendee lists) or the old hat lottery if you’ve signed up for something before. Part of our goal in having this event is to increase the number of members we have on the Google group as well as getting new people out. Please join the Google Group to get the URL for tickets: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/london-girl-geek-dinners
We’ll draw ticket winners on TUESDAY JULY 27th giving everyone plenty of time to get their name in the hat.
The event will kick off at 6pm at Google on AUGUST 4th with a bit of mingling and then some dinner. We will then have 3 great speakers in Sue Black speaking on the Women of Bletchley Park, Sarah Gordon of Google speaking on mobile engineering and hopefully a third speaker we’re just finalising. It will be an inspirational evening! Afterwards we hope to have something for dessert and mingle and mix until 9pm.
The event will be at Google in their main canteen. Google UK have generously donated space and dinner and a goodie bag with a few things in it to London Girl Geek Dinners. We are extremely proud and pleased to have Google as our main sponsor and to have one of their engineers as a speaker!
In addition to the generous Google sponsorship we have some other amazing sponsors:
The wines we will be quaffing are from the Dinastia Vivanco winery and fabulous wine museum in Rioja (Spain). The red wine is the Rioja Crianza 2005, the White wine (Vivanco Blanco) is a blend of Viura and Malvasia from 2009, and Rose is Vivanco Rosado 2009 – delicious rose. If this sounds fabulous and you’d like to know more, check www.dinastiavivanco.com and become a fan of the Dinastia Vivanco wine Facebook page to show you appreciate them providing the wine. We’ll also be asking volunteers to just chat about or give their opinoons on wine in general on the night as well so please do volunteer 30sec of your time if you can.
Green & Blacks are donating their new Organic Milk & White Miniature Bar Collection to the goodie bag as well! Green & Black’s NEW Milk Miniature Bar Collection gives you a taste of our milk and white chocolate bars. Contains 12 miniature bars ranging from our uniquely cocoa-rich milk chocolate with crunchy butterscotch or roasted almonds, to our new Creamy Milk and White Chocolate. Oh dear goodness YUMMY!
In the goodie bag will also be VitaminWater’s new drink – i-focus. i-focus will have you tickled pink, with a delicious strawberry-kiwi flavour, packed with antioxidant vitamin c, energy releasing b vitamins for a little more kapow and vitamin a to help maintain healthy vision. Pretty in pink and giving away an iPad to boot – defo the water of choice for the girl geek!
We also have the amazing Juniper Networks involved donating some lovely stuff to us though we haven’t confirmed what just yet so we’ll leave that as the surprise element of the evening. Juniper networks provide high speed, reliable switching routers and you can see their suite of kick butt stuff here
The lovely Iona Innovations are also donating raffle prizes for us to help us fund our work at getting charitable status. So bring your pound coins and buy some tickets on the night!
We’ll even have some Forbidden Planet flyers as we know SF and Girl Geeks often go hand in hand.
So as you can see it is going to be a fantastic evening and one you won’t want to miss!
See you there!
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