Geek Girls

Lesons learnt from "That Request"

My final response to the Beauty and the Geek email saga as I am labeling it. I will be attending future Geek Girl events and will continue to support it however I also think that lessons need to be learnt as we all learn lessons in life to make us better people.

I believe the main issue’s here fall under two categories;

1. the use of the word “reward” as pointed out by Amaya aka “prize”
2. The misleading first email that disclosed nothing of the nature of the request as pointed out by Michelle

The lessons learnt from this also fall into two categories I feel Read more »

Geek Girl Dinners Scotland - 2010

After my presentation at Edinburgh tech meet-up I meet Kate Ho from Scotland Geek Girls who asked me if I would like to present at the September dinner. I was pleasantly surprised and quite taken back by the offer. I spent the next while polishing up my slides to represent more about what OLPC as a project does rather then just a pure technology stack look which was the angle I took for the Edinburgh tech meet-up.

Before the talk I meet up with @android_dreams (Chris) and @webmeter (Janine) Read more »

Geek Girls Scotland

Digi Girlz day - Microsoft Australia

So the Digi Girlz day was held at Microsoft Australia with great success. The day started with a keynote from Sarah Vaughun about what her experience was like in high school university and that first job and how she ended up in a top role in IT. After the key note the girls broke up into teams and circulated the rooms. Read more »

Mcirosoft Digi Girlz
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