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Thursday, January 29, 2009 from 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM (PT)
Join us as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners and kick-off of She's Geeky unconference with a Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner on Thursday, January 29th, 2009.
For Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #3, we are going "no-host" and asking everyone to chip in $20 for dinner. You must buy your ticket online by 3PM on Tuesday, January 27th -- NO WALK-INS. Doors open at 5:30pm and dinner starts at 6:30pm at Ming's just off 101 in Palo Alto with your fellow Silicon Valley girl geeks!
Schedule:
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Check-in
6:30pm - 7:30pm: Dinner
7:30pm - 7:45pm: Introductions from women in tech groups represented
7:45pm - 9:30pm: Networking, including the opportunity to contribute to session idea brainstorming for She's Geeky unconference
The first 200 women to register will receive a Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner mug! Not to worry, we have schwag for everyone — make your office co-workers jealous with your girl geek schwag!
Never been to an unconference or camp?
This one provides an amazing opportunity to learn from a range of
geeky women in a peer-to-peer participant driven event. Check out
proposed She's Geeky unconference topics on the wiki, and have the
opportunity to contribute your own session ideas at the dinner!
What happens at a She's Geeky unconference? Beginning at 9am each day, we start with a blank wall and create a
multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to
everyone. Rooms are assigned to each topic and participants attend
sessions they are interested in. Notes from each session are collected
and a book is compiled with all the notes from the conference and
distributed to everyone who attends. For a 3-minute peek at last year’s unconference, click here.
She's Geeky (January 30-31, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View) unconference tickets can be purchased for Friday or Saturday or both days. Join She's Geeky Friday evening after the unconference for a showing of a film about Ada Lovelace, the "first programmer" according to Wikipedia.
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Background: Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th of August 2005 in London as a result of one girl geek by the name of Sarah Blow who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside.
After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject, and to know that subject in depth. It's not at all about being better than others, or about gender, race, religion or anything else. Those things just detract from the real fun stuff, the technology, the innovation, and the spread of new ideas.
Past Events: Girl Geek Dinners have been found in bars in Europe, and offices such as Google, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Skype. The format of the events is to be informal, buffet dinner style with finger foods and wine as well as soft drinks for those who are driving. We have a speaker or three on a subject of choice either based on a technical subject area or business area, or even on women and tech issues (such as mentoring). The events are varied and the reach vast.
Who are the people behind Girl Geek Dinners? Sarah Blow is the Founder of Girl Geek Dinners and heads up London Girl Geek Dinners. Angie Chang manages the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners in the Silicon Valley. She also co-founded Women 2.0 to support young women interested in entrepreneurship, business, and technology in the Silicon Valley. You can contact her at angiechang@gmail.com
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