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London Girl Geek Dinners needs new Organizer, is that you?

We haven’t had any events running in London for some time and after asking on the Facebook group people would still like these events to run, so we are putting a call out for people interested in running the events. If that sounds like something you would like to do then give us a shout.

We will fill you in with everything you need to know about running events, promoting them and much more. You will learn loads! There is a time commitment required for volunteering for this role as events do take time to put together. Ideally there would be 2 -3 organisers who split the load between them working on the various aspects of the events.

To say yes to doing this drop sarah at girlgeekdinners dot com an email.

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

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!

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/london-girl-geek-dinners

Regents Street Shopping with London Girl Geeks

Fashionable shopping destination Regent Street is teaming up with London Girl Geek Dinners to offer a futuristic shopping day which includes experiences from a presentation at the Apple Store, Augmented Reality interactive displays, free beauty and technology products that will be revealed through the latest technology on your smart phone.  Throughout the day there are also opportunities for free lunches and cocktails.

Get your name on the list to get a ticket to this event full of fun fabulous freebies.  There will be all sorts of fun and excitement to kick off this day at the Apple Store where we will all gather to hear a great talk before getting our instructions and getting off to explore the shopping of Regents Street.

This is a gadgeted event so bring your smartphone, laptop and all your tech to blog, tweet, and QR your way around the day.  There will be a technology hub called “basecamp” where you’ll be able to plug in your technology, edit your videos, blog, tweet or just relax before getting back at it.

Remember you have to be registered so go to the London Girl Geek Dinners google group for the secret URL and in the top right corner of the special page click on “register”.  If you click elsewhere you won’t be able to sign up.

You *MUST* be registered to get in to this event.  Men *MUST* be a guest of a registered and attending Girl Geek.  There are non  Girl Geek Dinner people clamouring to get into this event so please sign up ASAP.  Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask (but as I work full time I can only check emails once a day – sorry!)

Here is out schedule of events:

SATURDAY JUNE 19th 2010

Once you’ve signed up, you’ll get details of the timings for the day.

Get your name ticked off our list of registered attendees and we’ll meet and get a talk on “The Internet of Things: Digital Cows and the ways in which online behaviours are influencing the real world.”

You need to be on the list to get in to the event so remember to go to the London Girl Geek Dinners group and join to get access to the special URL.

 We’ll then head off for some lovely Shopping along Regent Street where we can hit the shops; Enjoy the sunshine; Take advantage of the fantastic offers; But most importantly, Have Fun! The day is yours so make the most of it. Remember you can always nip back to the basecamp to relax, cool down & drop your bags off before heading back out onto the streets.

We’ll end out day at the tech hub called “Basecamp” where you will have been able to store stuff, charge your tech, edit your videos, blog or whatever and we’ll have cocktails, share our experiences with the other girls and take part in the interactive presentation.

See you and your tech there! 🙂

Girl Geek Dinners: British women of Manga panel

London Girl Geek Dinners are proud to announce another cosmic event in conjunction with Sci-fi London 2010….

Although there have been notable and successful female comic book creators on both sides of the Atlantic over the last half century, it is the translation of Japanese Manga in the West that has seen considerably more female comics creators join the medium in recent years. This is possibly a combination of Manga having a greater female appeal than traditional Western comics and original Japanese Manga being already created by women in Japan.

To discuss these issues we have a trio of up and coming UK Manga creators:

Kate Brown illustrated the Manga Shakespeare adaptation A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Emma Vieceli is contributing to the comic strip adaptations of the songs of Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo and continues to draw an online Manga story, Dragon Heir.

Karen Rubins found early acclaim for her self published graphic novel The Dark.

Chair: Helen McCarthy one of the UK s leading experts on Manga and Anime.

Full Details:

  • Date & Time: Thursday, 29th April 2010, 6.30pm
  • Venue: Apollo West End Theatre, 19 Lower Regent Street, SW1 4LR; nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus, Directions here
  • Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners and SCI-FI-LONDON
  • Food & Drink: Drinks and nibbles in the bar, from 6.30pm
  • Attendees: As usual, men allowed as a guest of a LGGD member.

Tickets: Available from Wednesday 14th April at: http://scifi-london.eventbrite.com/

Launched: Twitter feed for London Girl Geek Dinners

Virtuosity video twitter_icons_256Christmas is gone and the New Year has finally arrived, and as a special little New Years present to those who attend the Girl Geek Dinners and are on Twitter who don’t want all my noise, i’ve added a new twtter feed. At the moment many of you on twitter rely on the GirlyGeekdom twitter feed which to be honest is a bit noisy, so as a result I’ve created another one just for the London Girl Geeks. On it I’ll be sharing info from this blog, any big announcements and event related info.

Also when we have an event on in an evening and you want to know more or want to give us some feedback/ improvement suggestions etc, you can either leave us a comment on the blog or send us a tweet!

Our twitter URL is http://twitter.com/londonggd

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We hope you like it!

Have a great New Year!

ps Look out for our next event being announced in the next week or so!

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