Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

What happens if you send a bunch of car loving geek girls to an event like Top Gear Live?

They have get high on fumes, have lots of fun, and even fall in love. More details:

• Ik ben verliefd! by @eveliendb at eveliendb.com.
• We are all the Stig by @bnox at bnox.be.
• Flickr set TopGearLive in Amsterdam by CWillaerts
• The secret ingredients (to seduce a man) by @imkedielen at imkedielen.wordpress.com.
• Facebook foto’s van Imke Dielen.
• Imke Dielen’s video’s: Top Gear Live – football, Top Gear Live – motor, Top Gear Live – fire, and Top Gear Live – the start.

Below: Top Gear Live Flickr set by Gil Plaquet.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Brussels Girl Geek Dinners have been totally spoilt lately! Here’s a round up of recent sponsor contests, and the girls who won:

• Win an Anne-Sophie party dress:  won by La Fie en Rose (@Fielosophie) with A goodie outfit for Clo! Thank you Anne-Sophie
• Win 10 entries to Weight Watchers meetings: won by Witch (@Gudrun) with Weight Watchers. Thank you Weight Watchers!
• Win a ticket to Top Gear Live in Amsterdam on January 24th: won by  Imke Dielen (@ImkeDielen) with Gierende banden en blutsen in de Lamborghini and by Eveliendb (@Eveliendb) with Mijn geschiedenis met auto’s. Thank you Dunlop!

Found at http://www.barbie.com/vote/:

“Computer engineers have lots of different specialties. They can do anything from building coputers to making video games!”

The next Barbie could be an environmentalist, a surgeon, an architect or a news anchor. But if you help with this vote, Barbie’s next career could be in IT!

Mattel decides on February 12 what Barbie will be next. I can hardly wait.

Dunlop is proud sponsor of the Amsterdam edition of Top Gear Live – a thundering show filled with the roar and smoke of the world’s fastest cars and jaw-dropping stunts under the watchful eye of three grown men that talk of little else besides cars, performance, speed and someone’s supposedly whitened teeth. With this travelling show, “the boys”, give every car fan the opportunity to spend an evening on what really matters: cars.

Dunlop offers two car-loving Geek Girls the opportunity to experience the spectacle up close and personal! We’re giving away two tickets to the last European edition of the show on Sunday January 24th in Amsterdam.

As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high and ultra-high performance tires, Dunlop’s name is inextricably linked to motorsport. The technologies that the company develops for use on the world’s leading circuits are also found in the tires it makes for everyday motoring. It is no surprise then that many of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers, including Alfa Romeo, AMG, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Jaguar, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, fit Dunlop as standard.

Also itching to be in Amsterdam on the 24^th?

Here’s what you need to do:

1) Write a blog post before January 21st. Make sure it contains the correct answers to these three questions:

1. Of which international race, that takes place from 14 – 16 January, is Dunlop title sponsor?
2. Which Dunlop ultra high performance tire contains Kevlar® in the apex of the tire?
3. Which Dunlop winter tire was named ‘Testsieger’ in the 2009 winter tire test conducted by German automotive magazine AutoZeiting?

Also make sure to convince the Dunlop people in a few sentences why you ABSOLUTELY have to be there on the 24th!

2) Put a link to this post (http://www.brusselsgirlgeekdinner.be/?p=539) in your blog post so we can see it pop up in the TrackBacks of this story.

Good Luck!

Voting has just started for the election of ICT Woman of the Year 2010. Have a look at this year’s candidates:

Criteria are:

• Being Belgian and/or working in Belgium
• Cio / Ceo
• Personality
• Leadership
• Visibility
• impact on the business/ict sector

Voting round ends on 29 January 2010. Cast your vote and spread the word!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Steffest: Back home from #BGGD23 at #cafeN with a presentation of Adobe’s Christophe Rooms. Nice seeing everyone again, tx @bnox for the impeccability

nanske: New Blogpost: “BGGD & Café Numérique” http://bit.ly/6kqLNn (expand) #bggd #CafeN

seynaeve: Voila quelques dizaines de sandwitch distribues aux nececiteux de la guare du nord grace a a @bnox #bggd, tres bon #CafeN !

kattebel: Happy to have met up again with @letzi83 @eurosocialiste and @chaos_theory_be #cafeN

melissa_bxl: A enfin rencontré @Chaos_Theory_Be @kattebel @rosefraiz et @yasinozcan! #ilnetaitpastemps #cafeN #BGGD23

francbelge: parle des droits de l’Homme, de la femme et de la lutte des classes au #cafeN. Offtopic!!!

Chaos_Theory_Be: http://twitpic.com/wy96o – #cafeN …il y a toujours du monde… Very very fun!

 ploempje: Er zijn hier tv’kes waar uwe tweet opkomt als ge hem tagt met #cafeN Test test #bggd

gregone: Adobe guy announced that flash cs5 will author objective-c apps! #cafen

Goedles: Flash will have a ‘transfer to iPhone application’ functionality. #bggd23 #cafen

Elz: Première with speech-recognition as meta-data? Keep talking Adobe-man! #BGGD

Vinch01: Listening to @christophrooms (Adobe) about future of video on the Web. #cafeN

Gudrun: flash will make video searchable. Now that would be something! #BGGD I really wouldn’t want to input the meta data :-p

Chaos_Theory_Be: Une des premieres fois que tout le monde ecoute (presque) religieusement le presentateur.Même @Mateusz fait pas ses blagues potaches. #cafeN

melissa_bxl: Adobe Open Screen? Too bad Apple’s missing from the list! #cafeN #BGGD23

Elz: HBO show from different angles looked cool! #BGGD

Gudrun: Die gast van Adobe is echt wel niet preaching for the choir, integendeel. Veel sceptische gezichten hier. #BGGD

netlash: Yeah yeah yeah. But does it run on an iPhone? #bggd #cafeN

melissa_bxl: Talking cross-platform development… #cafeN #BGGD23

Chaos_Theory_Be: tiens comique comme l ambiance du #cafeN est plus feminine aujourd hui #BGGD23 (@ Café Numérique w/ @seynaeve @melissa_bxl @mateusz)

melissa_bxl: Let’s talk seriously wirh Adobe now…#cafeN #BGGD23

Topanga: Opening BGGD, met presentatie over BGGD

mreys: @janosizoltan explains the #bggd ( I shall say this only once!) at #Cafen

Gudrun: #BGGD de mannelijke spreker die ons introduceert, vindt ons feministisch en vindt ‘sacoche’ nogal denigrerend. Like we care :-p

ramonsuarez: BGGD at #CafeN starting.@janosizoltan as MC. Not so girly himself but the audience is #geekpower

zandwacht: Benieuwd naar de Adobe strategie voor webvideo in het mobiele web tijdens Café Numérique #cafeN #bggd23

melissa_bxl: @janosizoltan fait le MC pendant que @bnox le photographie #cafeN #BGGD23
miespaties: @CafeNumerique is new, free & looking for ideas & suggestions. #cafen #bggd23
Gudrun: munching away at Mirano, while chatting. I really love those #bggd #cafeN
Elz: #cafeN heeft een übercool live-twitter-systeem… +1 voor Mirano.
AnnMarcelis: At Mirano for #CafeN and #bggd23 , eating a sandwich and waiting for my ‘sakoche’ @on_point
karen18: Clo is er helemaal klaar voor in de Mirano # bggd
tigressse: une 1ère, attending brussels girl geek dinner hosted par les mâles du #cafeN au Murano. 48 femelles inscrites ça risque d’être bruyant!

Christoph Rooms joined computer software company Adobe in 2002. The first 5 years he’s been evangelizing the LiveCycle platform and Flex towards the enterprise market.
Since December 2009 he is working on business development for Adobe Creative Pro market for the Belgium and Luxemburg area. Product wise this means all different flavours of Creative Suite, Flash Media streaming, Indesign server, Flash platform (designers and developers), e-books, …

Christoph Rooms  will talk about 2 topics

1. the evolution of video on the web
2. a short update on Flash on mobile

The guestlist on http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner23.pbworks.com/ is full but if you still want to join us: put your name on the Reserves List. We usually get all the reserves in.

The first BGGD of the new year will be on Wednesday 6 January at 6:30PM at the Mirano (Leuvensesteenweg 38, 1210 Brussels).
Every Wednesday night is Café Numerique (@cafenumerique) at the Mirano. But for once, the Café Numerique will be all about the Girl Geeks and what they are passionate about!

Agenda:

• 6:30PM – Welcome drinks (for those who registered at the wiki)
• 7:00PM – Introduction of BGGD by Zoltán Janosi
• 7:30 PM – Keynote by Christoph Rooms, Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems
• 8:30 PM – Networking: drinks and snacks