Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

The European Center for Women in Technology , Belgian Senate members Marie Arena and Hassan Bousetta, and the JUMP network invite you to the Senate on the 4 March 2011 at 13:30 for a (free) seminar on Women in Science and Technology. This seminar aims to review the state of play of business actions until now and to draw up a list for future actions.

Women, who represent 60% of university graduates, are a reservoir of talent for science, technology and innovation. However, only 33% of them choose science or technology at higher education and very few make a career in this field. The majority of women in science are in the fields of medicine, biology or mathematics (to become teachers) and they often completely drop subjects such as computer science or civil and industrial engineering.

We must increase the attractiveness of science and technology subjects in order to increase the gender balance in this sector and bring innovation and economic growth.

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One of the speakers during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #39 was fellow girl geek and Microsoftee Katrien De Graeve. From her blog post Girl Geek app for Windows Phone 7 resources, slides and write up from #BGGD39 at blogs.msdn.com:

I had great fun combining a fashion idea with the Windows Phone 7. By using Windows Phone 7 developer tools, in this case mainly Expression Blend and using built-in controls such as the Panorama control.

As promised, the slides to her presentation:

If you’re looking for the info on getting started with building for Windows Phone 7 yourself, here are some of Katrien’s recommended resources:

• Download tools: http://create.msdn.com
  Free tools are in a single download that contains Visual Studio for Windows Phone, Expression Blend (special version for Windows Phone), the Emulator and some other tools.
• Learn online:
  • Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Phone-7-Development-for-Absolute-Beginners
  • Quicktarts: http://create.msdn.com/en-us/education/quickstarts
  • Windows Phone 7 Training Kit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wp7trainingcourse.aspx
  • .toolbox: not to miss resource for learning Expression Blend and Silverlight (not specific for Windows Phone but very much recommended): http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/

More tweets and twitpics at Keepstream.com.

Blog posts (do let us know which ones are missing)

• Girl Geek’en met Windows Phone 7…BGGD39,  kregen de Brusselse Girl Geeks niet alleen hun Dinner, maar ook een introductie in het systeem. Mee Hyang Van Den Broeck gaf een rondleiding door haar smartphone, Katrien De Graeve toonde hoe je met een goed idee, wat creativiteit en wat handigheid een applicatie kunt maken met Microsoft Expression Blend en Steffest toonde waar hij zijn…van Saskia blogt
• BGGD39: Windows Phone 7/mobile hackingEindelijk nog eens een Brussels Girl Geek Dinner waar ik aanwezig kon zijn! We waren uitgenodigd, samen met de sjakosjen, bij Microsoft voor een voorstelling van hun nieuwe Windows Phone 7 waarmee ze de mobiele markt trachten te veroveren. Na de ontvangst met hapjes en een drankje werden we vergast op 3 keynote presentaties. De eerste presentatie …
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• BGGD39
  Gisterenavond samen met mijn collega geeks Veerle en Adeline naar de 39ste editie van Brussels Girl Geek Dinner geweest. Voor wie dit nog niet kent, dit is “an evening for woman who are passionate about IT”.
  Door Sofie Tersago

Time for a shameless plug: my book on social media for businesses is ready for print on 22 February (English version), and on 3 March (ePub, Kindle and Dutch version). The official book launch is on 16 March 13:00 in Standaard Boekhandel Sint Baafs in Ghent, but the first ones who get to see the book are of course the Brussels Girl Geeks. The book will cost 24,95 euros in book stores, but if you know the BGGD events well you can imagine there will probably be a little Oprah moment … just for the girls!

#BGGD40 Creativity vs Technology
Speaker: Clo Willaerts “How I wrote a book in one week”
Fri 4 March 17:30-19:45
80 guests (male & female)
Fnac – City 2
123, Rue Neuve, 1000 Brussel

>> Register now at http://twikilist.com/BGGD40