Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

Tonight’s 48th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners is made possible by Delta Lloyd Life.

As a pension insurer Delta Lloyd Life takes its social responsibility by participating in the debate with the various Belgian pension players. The pension debate shouldn’t just only be conducted in De Wetstraat. An annual pension survey, the Independent Chair of Pension Policy at the K.U. Leuven, the Pension Ambassador Award and the current campaign “Vrouwen Met Pensioen” are just some of its initiatives that seek to put the pension dialogue on the agenda. Take a look at
www.vrouwenmetpensioen.be / www.lapensiondesfemmes.be..

Two female bloggers, Ann Detelder (@AnnMetPensioen) and Claire Cervollo (@PensionDeClaire), were asked to document their month on the minimum pension fee. How did they cope?

And most importantly: which one of the girl geeks win the two iPhones tonight?

Good news! Registrations for the 48th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner are open.
>>> Register through this Twikilist to get in for free<<<

The topic is Women and retirement, and our speakers are Delta Lloyd CEO Jan Van Autreve, Belgian politician Miet Smet, and Françoise Goffinet of the Institut égalité femmes et hommes.

In a nutshell:

• Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:15-21:30
• Location: Fonsnylaan 38
  1060 Sint-Gilles

  Nearby:
  Brussels Midi Station, Place Victor Horta
  QPark Parking Zuidstation, Frankrijkstraat 40

Course of the evening:

18h15: Doors and welcome.
18.45: Opening words by Jan Van Autreve, CEO Delta Lloyd Life
19h00: Introduction of the topic by Miet Smet & Françoise Goffinet
19h40: Panel discussion with Ms Smet, Ms Goffinet, and the bloggers involved in the “Women and retirement” project.
20h.00: Networking with food and drinks. During the networking: surprise guest (hint) with Twitter sweepstake, retirement simulation demos, and the answer to “What happens to those 2 iphones the bloggers involved in the project got to use?”
21h30: Grab the goodie bags and go home

More good news: in the goodie bag you’ll find a voucher for a free customizable Wall Calendar offered by Pixum . Value: 19,99 euros (handling and mailing costs are not included). Just in time for the end of year!

Tonight’s BGGD [registration page] in a nutshell:

18:00 Doors and welcome

18:30 Presentation: gaming magazine Roekie

18:35 Presentation: game tablet uDraw

18:45 Demo & tryout time! Games: Pictionary, Instant Artist and Disney Princess

22:00 Grab the goodie bags and go home

Curious about what’s in the goodie bag? There’s one thing we can already tell you: there’s a Duracell Instant USB charger for each one of you!

The Instant Charger allows you to charge many USB-powered devices. It’s a handy portable power solution to keep in your bag, in your car, or on your desk for devices like iPods, iPhones, BlackBerrys, and more.

Hello girls,

Registrations have just opened for the 47th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners.

>>> Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free <<<

In a nutshell:
GGD47 Gaming
Wed 23 Nov 18:00-22:00
Speaker: Steven Van Gaever (@pekesenertjes) on uDraw GameTablet (20 min)
Venue:
Telenet
Liersesteenweg 4
2800 Mechelen

The event is open to 50 girl geeks this time, but each girl geek can bring one guest. This guest could be a game loving friend, or even a child (as long as they’re allowed to stay up until ten).
Just make sure to register with realnames, as Telenet Security needs those for their building access list.

&About the uDraw:

uDraw on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldofudraw?sk=wall
uDraw on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/world_of_udraw
Official website: http://www.worldofudraw.com/

Leslie Simon is the author of Geek Girls Unite, a book that celebrates all the fangirls, fashionistas, bookworms, indie chicks, craft mavens and other female misfits out there. Or as she puts it: ground zero for the geek girl revolution.

The book comes with the http://geekgirlsunite.com/ blog, which features weekly high-profile geek girls such as Meghan McCain, Chlöe Sevigny, Jenny Lewis, and many more.

Do you make things? The Ubuntu Women team is running a competition to find outstanding projects made by women and connected in some way to Ubuntu. Write about what you have done (with pictures) and email your entry to competition@ubuntu-women.org and they will publish it on the Ubuntu Women team blog. They will take a fairly broad interpretation of “making things” they could be physical things or more abstract, and they’ll accept fairly tenuous links to Ubuntu. The deadline for submissions is Ada Lovelace day, 7th October. Some examples of what you might make would include

• Neat new applications running on Ubuntu
• Cookies, Cakes or Cocktails with an Ubuntu theme
• Robots programmed or designed on Ubuntu
• Arduino powered circuits designed and programmed on Ubuntu
• Something musical or artistic with Ubuntu tools
• Something utterly different to surprise and delight us

I’ve lost count how many girl geeks have posed with the mag and posted it on their Facebook or Twitter account. Some examples – click on the image for more.

To support breast cancer awareness (and the 5th edition of Pink Ribbon Magazine) a few dozen of my Sanoma Media colleagues have volunteered to pose nude with the magazine. Among them virtually every magazine editor and a couple of men, too.

I’ve used mine as a profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to spread the message.

During #BGGD46, girl geeks can line up for the same photo shoot (if they want too, of course). It’s an all-female professional photo crew and they’re very pleasant to work with. By the way, do you recognise the girl geek in this gallery?

Don’t forget: Thursday 22 September is Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #46, the Charity Edition.

Can’t make it? No problem, remove your name from the attendees list to give the reserves a chance. There are about 20 of them, and we’re hoping to get them all in.

Location

Sanoma Media Belgium
Telecomlaan 5, 1831 Diegem

Grotere kaart weergeven

Course of the evening

18:30 Welcome with drinks and finger food
18:45 Start of photo shoot
19:30 Speaker 1: Rosette Van Rossem about Pink Ribbon Magazine
20:00 Speaker 2: Samia Lounis (Skype link) about One Laptop Per Child
20:30 Sweepstake Philips lamps – we’re giving away 8 of them!
21:00 Dinner and networking
22:30 Wrap-up and goodies

What’s missing? Post it in the comments!

During #BGGD45 the battle for the Sony Tablets was fierce. Eventually we had 4 winners.

From left to right: @applefanbe @gudrun @sanaered @nathalieb84.

But there was yet another tablet to win, with a haiku contest. This is the winning tweet, by @LoreDierickx.
Lore, if you read this: email/DM your post address to Clo so Sony can take care of the handling and delivery of your Tablet./

Very curious what their experiences with the Sony Tablet are. If you find any girl geek reviews, please post them in the comments.

i.materialise is a creation and 3Dprinting service that enables people with a creative mind to create unique, customised and beautiful products. The girl geeks visited them in their early days, back in november 2009. Many of the girl geeks envisioned using the technology to create unique jewelry pieces.

Well, the 3D printed jewels have arrived. More and more designers worldwide are using 3Dprinting to create wonderful pieces of art. We would like to present a couple of those on the next Girl Geeks night. We look forward to your feedback. Enjoy girls!

Tonight, at the reception desk, there are 25 freshly printed 3D jewels – just for the ladies. Please pick one as you arrive and let us all know on Twitter, Facebook, your blog etc what you think of it!

During the IFA fair (the world’s largest and most important trade fair for consumer electronics and household appliances) Sony threw their answer on the tablet pile: the Sony Tablet. And they want to have your thoughts on the newborn during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #45. No boring you to death with 500 slides, but an entertaining evening. Well, let’s be honest, it’s the Sony people who will be entertained by you!

You’ll be fighting a geek battle: you and your buddy will fight a number of cross-category challenges against the other teams. Pop quiz, videogaming, the occasional app to download and use, uploading a picture…

Two top geeks will win a Sony Tablet at the end of the evening. And there’s an additional challenge for the more
creative geek who’s not in a combative mood. A part from the prizes, who has never wanted to beat another geek at their own game?

Studio Brussel’s Steven Lemmens (@stvn) will act as MC, jury and shoulder to cry on if you’re not happy with the results of the evening.

Course of the evening

• 18.30 welcome and explanation of the rules of the game
• 19.00 walking buffet – find your buddy – check out the list of challenges
• 19.45 battle!
• +/- 22.00 finals and award presentation

Venue
The Event Lounge
Gen. Wahislaan 16F Av. Gén. Wahis
1030 Brussels

The Event Lounge hosts the Sony open days at the same time, so you’ll have a chance to see the latest products that’ll hit the AV-market in the coming months.

As promised:

#BGGD45 Wed 14 Sep 18:30, Brussels: GeekBattle sponsored by Sony, with Steven Lemmens
70 male/female (= 35 ladies + sacoche) #geekbattle
Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free: http://twikilist.com/BGGD45

#BGGD46 Thu 22 Sep, Brussels (Diegem): Charity Edition by Pink Ribbon, with, among other things, a speaker from the One Laptop per Child project.
50 ladies
Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free: http://twikilist.com/BGGD46

Hello ladies,

Keep these dates free:

• #BGGD45 Wed 14 Sep 18:30, Brussels: GeekBattle sponsored by Sony, with Steven Lemmens
  70 male/female (35 ladies + sacoche) #geekbattle
  More stuff for the goodie bag very welcome; leave a note in the comments if you can help.
• #BGGD46 Thu 22 Sep, Brussels (Diegem): Charity Edition by Pink Ribbon, with, among other things, a speaker from the One Laptop per Child project.
  50 ladies

Registrations will open op 1 September!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

#BGGD44 on Flickr by sanaered.

Just a quick note to let you know that the cows are fine. Tomorrow’s weather will be a little cloudy but warm nevertheless. Kinrooi (the blue blot on the map) happens to be in the zone with the highest temperatures tomorrow.

More good news: there are 4 seats available. So if you have a friend you’d love to take along, let her register through the Twikilist to get in for free:
http://twikilist.com/BGGD44