Our second meeting... yipee!

What: Want to know a bit more about what a Girl Geek Dinner is? 

When: Monday 3rd August @ 7pm

Where: Fat Cats Restaurant

Cost: £10 (this is the cost for food)

Why: Our speaker for this evening is Kate Bolin who is a Nottingham based web designer, likes web standards and accessibility but is happiest when up to her elbows in CSS. She is also a prolific knitter. You can find out more about Kate on her entertaining blog: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/.

Every year the website that is a regular stomping groud for all proffesional web designers; A List Apart, runs a web survey to look at the current industry around the globe. Kate will be looking at the results from the most recent A List Apart Web Workers survey, to examine what it tells us about being a woman working in web design. Leave your preconceptions at the door as we have look at the industries and sectors that offer support for women in IT. Then expect a lively conversation afterwards.

REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT!

I've just returned from Nottingham's Girl Geek Dinners and I am really pleased. Everyone was lovely and a huge thanks to everyone who came out. A big thank you to Susi O'Neill for her excellent presentation on 'Social Media for Business' the presentation is on Slideshare now: http://www.slideshare.net/susioneill/22-06-09-girl-geek-dinners-social-media-for-biz 

I've read through the feedback and there is some really useful comments in there and I will do my best to implement as much of it as possible. Some of it is newbie mistakes and easy to fix, so thanks for the feedback. Yet it was all really positive and I am really pleased that my first ever event went so well. Everyone was really supportive, it was a great atmosphere.

If anyone has anymore feedback they would like to leave, feel free to leave a comment or email/twitter me. Does anybody have any feedback on the venue? 

Photos should follow shortly (thanks to @Paintedghost) 

If you'd like to help us promote Girl Geek Diners then I have created a poster which I am sharing for you to use to help promote the event. Perhaps you could put a poster up in your work canteen, or notice board.

If you do help promote the event be sure to let me know. 

GGDposter.pdf (1.94 mb) 

It is here, Ada Lovelace Day.

Created by Suw Charman-Anderson, to help promote women in technology, it is a day dedicated to blogging about women who are admired and successful within technology. Brilliant idea Suw and I'm delighted to see that it has really taken off and seen some great support.

I thought I'd pick a few of my favourite posts to share with you.

• Mena Trott by Cate Seville
• Natalie Down by Rachel Andrews
• Suw Charman-Anderson by hubby Kevin Charman-Anderson
• Ada Lovelace by Suw Charman-Anderson
• Girl Geek Dinners by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
• Jane McGonigal by Jemima Kiss
• Rachel Dixon by Leisa Reichelt
• Nottinghamshire heroines by Susan Hallam
• Sarah Blow by Jane Dallaway
• Molly E. Holtzschlag by Elsa Bartley
• Alice Taylor by Matt Locke