Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

You know from our Upcoming BGGD overview that on Wednesday 7 October is the 18th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner. Topic is Movies. Or rather: Eighties Ladies at the Movies. And there’s good news: there will be room (and goodie bags) for no less than 100 girl geeks. Thank you  kinepolis.com/ladies!

Have you already guessed what movie we’ll see? Here’s a hint.

I don’t know about you, but of all the Wii  Fit sports I like Yoga best. Of course, that’s not the real thing. Which is why Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is organising a Hatha Yoga session on Saturday 3 October 14:00-16:00 in Brussels.

Hatha Yoga is what most people in the West associate with the word “Yoga” and is practised for mental and physical health throughout the West. Hatha yoga consists of various movements, breath control exercises, and physical postures that can produce a profound state of inner union, vitality, and harmony.
(In case you’re wondering what to wear: just don’t pick anything that could restrict bodily movements. The obvious items including jeans, or shirts.  Try loose-fitting, sweat absorbent and comfortable clothes, like yoga shorts, sweat clothes, leotards or yoga pants.)

Sponsor is Vitaminwater, so please give them lots of linklove: http://glaceauvitaminwater.be/

Want to join us? Then put your name on the wiki. Seats are limited to 40 ladies this time, so don’t wait too long!

One more thing! « ctfTijG |
http://blog.tijg.be/2009/09/16/one-more-thing 
[…] And her book! […]

‘t boekje « Imke Dielen
http://imkedielen.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/t-boekje
[…] zijn weer om te snoepen: naast een goede pot Lotus Crunchy Speculoos Pasta kunnen we het lekkere Vitamin Water proeven. Het water dat ik deze zomer in Californië vaak kocht. En ook Proxis kon het niet laten om […]

Birgit Walraet
http://webmaidensgrimoire.blogspot.com/2009/09/booky-girl-geeks.html
[…] Collega BGG Imke Dielen heeft nu haar blogpersonage te boek gesteld: van het kleine scherm naar papier en inkt, inderdaad. […]

La Fille de 1973 » Il est des moments magiques… |
http://lafillede1973.com/?p=553
[…] qui s’est passé hier, en allant écouter Helena présenter son livre à la 16ème session du Brussels Girl Geek Dinner (qui se passait à Vilvorde, le grand Bruxelles, moi, j’aime […]

Imke Dielen nu ook in boekvorm « Boeken & Films « Lifestyle « Digitalic
http://digitalic.be/blog/2009/09/imke-dielen-nu-ook-in-boekvorm
[…] Met deze blogpost alvast een poging om daar achter te komen. Er worden namelijk enkele exemplaren weggegeven in ruil voor een linke naar de blogpost over dit boek! […]

Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #16 « De avonturen van het endimi-konijn
http://endimi.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/brussels-girl-geek-dinner-16
[…] Willaerts, organisatrice van de BGGD. Er zat ook een kleine wedstrijd aan vast: 4 aanwezigen konden via deze verwijzing een exemplaar van het boek van Imke Dielen […]

I wuvs joe
http://verbeelding.org/2009/09/17/boeken-en-zo
[…] een boek zeg ik nooit “nee” dus link ik even naar een bepaalde post om kans te maken op het boek van ons Imke. Kwestie dat we mee zijn met heel het gebeuren hé. En ik […]

Nieuwe plannen « Kleine heeft geen leven
http://kleineheeftgeenleven.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/nieuwe-plannen
[…] ah, een volgende keer dan maar weer! Maar stiekem hoop ik dan toch nog haar boek te winnen door hier nu een linkje te zetten, […]

Blogster schrijft boek « BITS & BYTES
http://bitsenbytes.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/blogster-schrijft-boek
[…] schrijft boek 17 09 2009 Kijk! Een Girl Geek die een boek schrijft! Over bloggen. En wijvenklap! Zijn er zo nog ladybloggers met […]

Imke Dielen (2009)
http://aardling.com/imke-dielen
[…] schrijft al enkele jaren een eigen blog onder het pseudoniem van Imke Dielen. Nu haar boek over die ervaring klaar is kunnen we direct van de bron te weten komen wat ze nu zelf vond van die “sex, men, […]

BGGD #16 | Unexpected
http://unexpected.be/?p=2317
[…] was het nog eens zo ver: ik mocht naar een BGGD – Brussels Geek Dinner en dan nog wel het event waar Imke Dielen haar boek voorstelt. Als ik […]

Hooray! « [ Naar mijn innerlijke overtuiging ]
http://sententiae.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/hooray
[…] het was dus fantastisch, allemaal superlieve mensen, een schattige Imke Dielen die haar schattig boek voorstelde en lekkere drankjes in rode bollekes. Hooray! Na al dit geleuter zal ik er waarschijnlijk […]

Girl geek dinner, the book edition « Sara Van de Velde
http://saravdv.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/girl-geek-dinner-the-book-edition
[…] exemplaren weg. Om kans te maken op een gesigneerd exemplaar, moet je gewoon linken naar de blogpost op de BGGD […]

Vanavond « Imke Dielen
http://imkedielen.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/vanavond
[…] BGGD#16 […]

BGGD #16 – The Book Edition from Tim Verbist on Vimeo.

Found via Unexpected.be aka @unexxx.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Journalist Brecht Decaestecker describes her as Something like a phenomenon. Imke Dielen is really Helena Van Eykeren, an ambitious 25 year old who started blogging 2,5 years ago. The book “Imke Dielen” describes how the character she created thinks and feels about sex, men, cars, and toilet paper.

Imke Dielen has been published by Ludion Publishers in Dutch and is available in bookstores in the course of this month.

The first 100 people who order a copy through e-mail and mention the voucher code “1609″ get free shipping.

And as mentioned yesterday night during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, the first 4 bloggers who refer to this post get a free, signed copy.

Officially only launched on 24 September, but the Girls always get the goodies first: Glacéau Vitaminwaters. Vitaminwater was designed to “fill the gap” between soft drinks and water for people who knew they should drink more water but weren’t. With fewer calories than soda, the drink both hydrates consumers and provides nutrients they are likely to be missing.

For a full range of the six flavours available in Belgium from next week on: http://glaceauvitaminwater.be

Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #16 is today Wednesday 16 September, 18:00-21:30. Full list of attendees and reserves at the wiki page.

The venue is

SAP Lounge

Dewezplein 5 (near Rondeweg)

B-1800 Vilvoorde

Route decription (.pdf)

The SAP Lounge be easily reached by train. Vilvoorde train station is only 300 meter away.

And before I forget: there is wifi, so do bring your laptops if you want to tweet/blog.

Programme:

• 18:00 Welcome with (finger) food and drinks. Short introduction of
  SAPLounge by Tim Nagels. Short introduction of F.A.C.T.S. by
  Emmanuel VS.
• 19:00 Speaker Helena Van Eykeren about the book deal for Imkedielen.be
• 20:00 Networking
• 22:00 End of the evening. Make sure to grab your goodie bag on your way
  out! Thank you SAPlounge, Lotus, Proxis, Vitaminwater, and F.A.C.T.S.

F.A.C.T.S. is the biggest science fiction, fantasy, comics & anime convention in
the Benelux. Launched in 1993 (in a small room above a pub) it has grown into a full blown
convention with some 10.000+ visitors at the previous edition.

FACTS 2009, to be held on October 17th/18th 2009 in Flanders Expo (Ghent, Belgium) will feature more than 100 dealers from
Europe and the USA; some 30+ guests (a/o Kevin – Hercules – Sorbo, Lou – the Hulk – Ferrigno, Leah – Racetrack – Cairns, etc.); a fan village with life size props; a game zone with 60+ consoles and some DDR setups; a cos’ play competition; large screen projections; a chill out zone; and much much more!

Want to go? Every attendee of this Brussels Girl Geek Dinner gets free entrance at this year’s edition.

More info on www.facts.be

After last year’s highly successful launch of Lotus caramelized biscuit spread, Belgian food company Lotus is innovating again, this time by bringing caramelized biscuit *crunchy* spread.

Lotus Crunchy Speculoos Pasta is unique, containing both crunchy pieces of authentic Lotus caramelized biscuit and smooth Lotus caramelized biscuit spread.

They’ve only just hit the stores, but you know what it was like last year: these Speculoos Pastas are very popular. Which is why Lotus is handing out one jar of Lotus Crunchy to every attendee. (Yes, that includes the male geeeks this time).

I’ve always wanted to do a “book edition” of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, and with the help of SAPlounge, Imke Dielen en Proxis it’s finally possible. Proxis is, of course, one of the Belgian e-commerce classics. They’ve been selling on-line since 1997 (!). For BGGD #16, they are putting some interesting stuff to read in the goodie bags.

Proxis has been a true value in the online shopping landscape for more than 12
years. In our webstore you can find more than 4 million products including books in
Dutch, English and French, along with an extensive offer of CDs, DVDs, games and
software.

Proxis’ many years of experience guarantee the best service, worldwide
delivery and, last but not least, a broad array of secure payment options.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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From the Luon blog:

Yesterday, Solo treated our girl geek jury and 5 of their friends to an exclusive cooking workshop with Jeroen De Pauw. The location was wonderful, the dishes looked delish and the company was to die for. For the occasion, chef de cuisine Jeroen De Pauw prepared a special girl geek menu consisting of 3 super tasty yet healthy dishes. You can easily try out the recipes for yourself. Just follow the instructions at www.solo.be/nl/girlgeekdinner (in Dutch).

For all the girl geeks who couldn’t make it to the workshop Solo also has a special surprise. To celebrate the launch of Solo Light we are going to give away richly filled gift baskets to 10 girl geeks who register to the site via www.solo.be/nl/girlgeekdinner

The site will be updated with a French girl geek page shortly.

Just a quick note to announce that registrations for Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #16 (on Wednesday 16 September in the wonderful SAP Lounge, Dewezplein 5 , Vilvoorde) are open.

The topic is “Books”. Not only because Proxis and FACTS are sponsoring the goodie bags, but most of all because one of us got a book deal: Imke Dielen . She will be the speaker for this edition.

For those who’ve just tuned in: Brussels Girl Geek Dinners are free (including entrance, food, drinks, and even a goodie bag) but seats are limited. This is why only people whose name is on the Wiki page are allowed in.

Usually the events are female only but this time it’s open to both girl and male geeks, bloggers, Flickrs, tweeple, you name it.

Who puts your name on the Wiki page? You do. Create a pbwiki account, log in,  click “edit page” and add your name to the “Attendee list”.

I often get the question from journalists, but this brilliant Venn diagram explains it all. The difference between a nerd and a geek is, that a nerd is socially inept and a geek is not. They share, however, their intelligence and a passion for (in our case) anything IT, internet or computer related.
By the way, a stupid nerd is called a dork. A nerd without passion is just a dweeb.

The Brussels Twestival is a party to raise money for Belgian charities. The Twestival team shortlisted a total of 15 Belgian charity projects for you to choose from. The 5 charity projects that receive the most votes will then go forward to the vote that takes place on 12 September at the Twestival.

Please encourage your friends to vote for their favourite cause and if you can come on 12 September buy your tickets today.  The line-up is looking great, btw:

Doors open at 8.00pm with music from @LaidBackRadio and Charity Pitches & Final Vote until 9.00pm

Live Bands

• Altamontt (Rock)
• K.O.S. (beatbox) @thomastesla
• Lydia Da Rocha (live housy)

DJs

• Patrick Balzat (selecta-beat, Noce Royale)
• DJ Psar (NRJ Mashup, MP Family) @djpsar
• Mr Amaury (Fun Radio) @amaury
• DJ Satanas (MP3Bar) @djsatanas

If you’re not able to make it on the night of the 12th you’ll miss one hell of a party. But you can still help with a donation.