Brussels Girl Geek Dinner » Contest

7 October is Ada Lovelace Day (and the deadline for the Ubuntu Women Competition)

Clo Willaerts — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:12:54 +0000

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

#BGGD45 Sony Tablet Haiku contest: and the winner is… @LoreDierickx

Clo Willaerts — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:22:36 +0000

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.

#BGGD45 Surprise for the ladies: 3D printed jewelry thx @imaterialise

Clo Willaerts — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:27:04 +0000

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!

How to win a HTC 7 Trophy smartphone at #BGGD39

Clo Willaerts — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:48:26 +0000

During the 39th edition of the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, you have a chance to win an HTC 7 Trophy.

All you need to do is to be present and participative.

Interesting, but what is it?
The HTC 7 Trophy is a Windows Phone 7 smartphone from HTC that will get you into the game! Check out all the things you can do with this gaming phone with full Xbox LIVE integration.

Appear Lamp by @imaterialise and the winner is… @lucysetian

Clo Willaerts — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:17:42 +0000

Congrats to Lucy Setian!

Have a look at her personalised 3D “Alladin” lamp.

Win this cool individualised Appear Lamp by @imaterialise

Clo Willaerts — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:05:45 +0000

Remember the 19th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners (on Wed 18 November 2009 with @designarenas and @imaterialise as the speakers)? .MGX, Materialise’s high end design label for 3D printed furniture and lamps, just opened the world’s first physical store for 3D printed goods in Brussels’ exclusive Sablon district.

To celebrate, i.materialise is giving away one individualised Appear Lamp (total height: 43,4 cm, street value: 81.82 €). You could, for example, put your favourite Tweet on this lamp and wrap it as a gift to your Significant Other on Valentine’s Day!

How do you enter this contest?

Simple:

Between 1 and 15 January, put your idea of the perfect individualised Appear Lamp somewhere public online (e.g. on your blog). Include
- What your message would be (max 140 characters)
- What the top text would be (max 24 characters)
Link back to this blog post and/or Tweet about it, so it shows up in the Comments/Reactions section of this blog post. Post manually as a comment to this blog post if that doesn’t happen automatically. Let me know if by any chance Disqus ate your comment and we’ll fix that asap.
The Comment or Reaction to this blog post that got the most “Likes” on 16 January at 07:00 CET. In case of a draw, a jury consisting of Clo Willaerts and Joris Peels (Community Manager at i.materialise) decide who wins.

Contest: How many girl geeks can you pack in a Jazz?

Clo Willaerts — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:40:15 +0000

This afternoon we’ll open registrations for another great BGGD road trip (to Paris, on 5 & 6 October, in ten brand new cars).

But first: a little contest for all those who can’t join us. During the BGGD road trip, the girl geeks will try out how many of them fit into a Jazz (with its doors closed). The first one to guess the correct number below in the comments can have the new Honda Jazz for one weekend – as soon as it’s launched in Belgium somewhere in Spring 2011. We’ll be able to see who won on 6 October, when the girly car geeks get back from their Paris trip.

this is where we got the idea from:

#BGGD27 Xperia X10 mini contest: and the winner is… @vromant

Clo Willaerts — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:08:34 +0000

Remember the contest during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #27 where you could win a SonyEricsson Android phone?

Well, the winner is not a girl geek but a male guest (or sacoche as we like to call them): Gerrit Vromant (@vromant) with his idea for a Walkie-Talkie data-call application:

What the jury liked:

Nice app that combines various functions of the phone (maybe combined with GPS)
We are going to the vacation time here you can Talk to your whole family at the same time a great new way to communicating
the app is social but e.g. in your family and it combines voice with a twitter like function.

Congrats, @vromant !

#BGGD29 Contest: and the winner is… @endimi [update]

Clo Willaerts — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:37:43 +0000

Remember the contest launched during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #29? Where you could win a Nokia E72 Symbian smartphone + 1 year free TelenetConnect?

The winner is young mother Endimi with her blog post
BGGD29: de Nokia E72 en Telenet Connect.

Congrats!

[update]

Don’t forget: Nokia E72 + 1yr TelenetConnect and SonyEricsson Xperia X10 contests deadline next week

Clo Willaerts — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:38:00 +0000

We still have 2 awesome contests running:

Contest 1:
SonyEricsson Xperia X10 touchscreen Android mobile phone – ends on Thursday 10 June

More: http://www.brusselsgirlgeekdinner.be/?p=591

Contest 2:
Nokia E72 Symbian smartphone + 1 year free TelenetConnect – ends on Friday 11 June

More: http://www.brusselsgirlgeekdinner.be/?p=601

Symbian + wordwide connectivity, or Android + touchscreen: up to you!