BGGD #12 The Special Edition: let’s go to London! [UPDATE]
Why London?
London is where Girl Geek Dinners originally started. And London is just around the corner, actually. Which is why Eurostar invites 40 Brussels Girl Geeks for a round trip Brussels-London-Brussels on Saturday 14 March 2009. On the train, we will be joined by a group of French girl bloggers, and in London we’ll have tea with some of the London Girl Geeks.
Who should join?
Anyone who’s female and geeky, lives and breathes Twitter/Facebook/Flickr/blogging, loves shopping, and most importantly: has a smartphone and knows how to use it. The idea is to use a brand new “social mobile application” to liveblog our shopping adventures that day in London (hence the importance of that smartphone).
What’s the programme?
- 8h30 : welcome at Brussels-Midi (introduction, tickets distribution, data card, vouchers,etc.)
- 9h29 : London departure
- 10h31 : Arrival in London St Pancras International
- 10h45 : Geek Shopping starts (enhanced by social mobile application)
- 12h00 : Meet at Apple Store => A lecture by Molly Flatt, a Guardian blogger, and Jess Greenwood - Dep Ed, Contagious Magazine
The theme is likely to be around 10 top trends of the year including things like Location and Context Services, Apps Stores, Going Green, etc. We will confirm early next week after Jess and Molly have fleshed it out. - 12h45 : Shop till you drop again or rather till 3.30
- 15h30 : Welcome at Berkeley Hotel
- 15h30 to 18h30 : Networking with London and French Girls Geek during tea time.
- 19h00 : check-in @ St Pancras International
- 19h34 : departure Eurostar for Brussels-Midi
- 22h33 : arrival in Brussels-Midi
How do you register?
Add your name to the wiki page to get in. List closes at 40 girl geeks (no guests, please).
[UPDATE:] If your name is on the attendees list but you’re not 100% sure you can make it to Brussels-Midi at 08:30 this Saturday and/or liveblogging is not your thing, please move your name to the off list. This way we can give the Reserves on the list a chance to join us.
on February 28th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
You need to be Clo the manage something like this.
Clo for President
on March 1st, 2009 at 1:48 am
If you need complimentary mobile internet SIM cards for the occasion, if no one else can help you, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire “Mobile Vikings” !
on March 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am
Noooo! I’ve had something planned for that day for *months*, but I was really really looking forward to this, too
Damn it!!
on March 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 am
I’d love to come! Unfortunately I don’t have a smartphone (anymore)
on March 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Any chance of just having a plain old girl geek dinner in Brussels one of these days? I’d really like to join in the fun, but they don’t seem to take place here in Brussels nowadays…
on March 5th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
No problem, Greet. I’ll just take your place!!! Great!
on March 8th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Too late for me
I’m in the Reserves List, maybe for the next time 
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Do we have to put an application in advance on our smartphone for GGSL?
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