Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia: Week of September 10
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Community Announcement The
Philly chapter of GirlDevelopIt is turning one and she is throwing a
BIG party with music, games, contests and surprises. Even better? 100%
of your ticket purchase will be donated to TechGirlz -- a local
non-profit organization helping middle school girls embrace the power of
technology! So we’ll see you there, right? [GET A TICKET OR TWO OR SEVEN]
Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia Updates
Recap of GGD PHL #6
A recap of our Summer 2012 GGD event was posted. If you missed it, all the goodness can be found here: http://bit.ly/Osq6nk
[READ ME]
GGD PHL Comics and Cookies :: September 11
It's our second Comics and Cookies night! We'll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd! [LEARN MORE]
GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night :: September 25
It's
time to take over Redcap's Corner again! We'll be meeting there to play
some board games - they've got a huge bookcase full of games, but
everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well. [LEARN MORE]
For the rest of 2012....
We
can’t believe it’s already September! There are only 4 more months of
activities before 2012 is over and 2013 is here. Where did the year go?
Stay tuned for details on events that will take us through the rest of
the year, including our PTBYONPL Town Hall meeting. (Warning, October is
going to be a little busy!)
Other Happenings
September 11: Beginning Steel Band
September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies
September 12: Agile Culture Conference - Philly
September 13: Ignite Philly 10
September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy
September 17: Victory Brewing: Girls Just Wanna Have Suds
September 18: Philly Illustrator User Group Meeting: Creative Cloud
September 19: Content Strategy Philly/PhillyCHI: Margot Bloomstein—Content Strategy
September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood's LED Installations -- NEW DATE
September 22: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming
September 24: NOSH: The Cookbook Club - Featuring FARM CITY by Novella Carpenter
September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night
September 26: Android Alliance: Mark Murphy Presents "App Integration: Strategies and Tactics"
September 27: GirlDevelopIt Philly: One Year Birthday Party
September 27: Node Philly: September Meetup & Hack Time
September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
September 28-30: PostCamp East -- Wilmington, DE
September 28-30: Startup Weekend Philadelphia -- GGD PHL Discount!
September 29: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress
September 29: NorthEast PA (NEPA) BlogCon -- Nanticoke, PA
September 29: Philly Zombie Prom
October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women
October 3: Alpha Girls Screening at the Troc
October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer -- Baltimore
October 4: Greensgrow Philly Food Swap
October 5: Making Things Move with CSS and JavaScript
October 10-14: Design Philadelphia
October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference
October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour
October 20-21: WordCamp Philly
October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It!
October 27: Philly Zine Fest
November 10: Barcamp Philly
April 19-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Tech Week
April 20, 2013 (yes, 2013!): Philly Women in Tech Summit
June 27-29, 2013 (yes, 2013!): National Homebrewers Conference
Feel free to hit us up if you want your event included in this list! For a larger list of events in the area, check out Technically Philly's Event Calendar.
OTHER HAPPENINGS September 11: Beginning Steel Band This
course requires no previous knowledge of music or any previous musical
instrument study. In Beginning Steel Band you will be introduced to the
steel drum, its history, performance practice, and its role in a steel
drum ensemble. In addition, you will study and learn music theory,
improvisation, chord reading, note reading, and ear training while
learning to play the steel drum. [LEARN MORE]
September 11: GGD PHL Comics and Cookies It's our second Comics and Cookies night! We'll be meeting at Atomic City Comics on South Street and be reading Petrograd! [LEARN MORE]
September 12: Agile Culture Conference - Philly Want
more productivity, better products, creativity, and higher quality from
your workforce? If you believe that organizational culture is the key
to getting all this and more from knowledge workers, this is the
conference for you! [LEARN MORE]
September 13: Ignite Philly 10 Are
you ready for Ignite Philly 10? On Thursday September 13th we will
again bring you a night filled with inspiring and amazing stories of
happenings all around Philadelphia. [LEARN MORE]
September 15-16: Hacks for Democracy Do
you have an idea for an app that will improve this fall's election?
What tools do we need to improve citizen engagement? Is there an app
that would get your friends to the voting booth in November? What app
might help mitigate the impact of voter ID laws? What data would make
your local city council and board of elections more transparent? Join
civic hackers, election officials, journalists, data analysts and
designers to make progress on these and other questions related to
elections and politics. [LEARN MORE]
September 17: Victory Brewing: Girls Just Wanna Have Suds Attention
Ladies! Join us for a mini beer dinner featuring the ever popular
Horace Hop Wallop! Each course of the menu will be paired with draft,
cask or bottled Hop Wallop showcasing the versatility of one of our
favorite beers. [LEARN MORE]
September 18: Philly Illustrator User Group Meeting: Creative Cloud Join
us to discuss the Creative Cloud. Are you using it? Thinking about it?
Learn more at our third Tuesday meeting on September 18! [LEARN MORE]
September 19: Content Strategy Philly/PhillyCHI: Margot Bloomstein - Content Strategy Please join us for an evening with content strategist Margot Bloomstein, author of the recently published Content Strategy at Work: Real World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project.
She'll detail some of the case studies that show how organizations with
a range of visibility and budgets can apply content strategy to ensure
greater success in user experience and interactive consulting. [LEARN MORE]
September 20: The Hacktory: Tour of Longwood's LED Installations -- NEW DATE Your
ticket gets you a seat on our charter bus to the garden, covers the
entry fee to Longwood, and a picnic dinner. Longwood Gardens has
provided some excellent programming, including a discussion about
bio-inspired energy by Kristina Lynch, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and
Astronomy at Dartmouth College, sparks a discussion about the Northern
Lights, and a StorySlam by First Person Arts on the theme “Everyday
Magic.” [LEARN MORE]
September 22: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Diving into Server Side Programming If
you want to make mobile or web application, you'll need to understand
how to program the web server. Servers are what make web services work.
This introductory class will give you fundamental skills and
understanding for programming in the server environment. [LEARN MORE]
September 24: NOSH: The Cookbook Club - Featuring FARM CITY by Novella Carpenter Love eating and reading? Then NOSH is for you. On Monday, September 24th NOSH: The Cookbook Club will meet to savor FARM CITY,
scrappy urban farmer Novella Carpenter’s bestselling tale of getting
her Old MacDonald on in the vacant lot next to her shabby, but not-so
chic, apartment in inner city Oakland. [LEARN MORE]
September 25: GGD PHL Lady Board Game Night It's
time to take over Redcap's Corner again! We'll be meeting there to play
some board games - they've got a huge bookcase full of games, but
everyone is welcome to bring their own games as well. [LEARN MORE]
September 26: Android Alliance: Mark Murphy Presents "App Integration: Strategies and Tactics" Android
has a rich palette of techniques for allowing applications to integrate
with one another, from simple, hyperlink-style handoffs to full
IDL-based IPC. Not all of these are necessarily appropriate for all
apps, and choosing ones that make sense is an art as much as a science.
This presentation reviews the possibilities and talks about how they are
implemented. [LEARN MORE]
September 27: GirlDevelopIt Philly: One Year Birthday Party GirlDevelopIt
Philly is turning 1 year old and we're throwing a BIG shindig. With 20
Meetups, over 300 attendees and close to 550 members we have a lot to
celebrate. [LEARN MORE]
September 27: Node Philly: September Meetup & Hack Time Come
join us for our second Node.Philly meetup and Hack Time! We will be at
another unique space in Philly with some great talks, demos, food and
beer. We are also going to kick off "Hack Time" which we hope will
become a strong Node.Philly tradition. [LEARN MORE]
September 28-29: THATCamp Philly (The Humanities and Technology Camp) THATCamp,
The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary
“unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together
for the common good. [LEARN MORE]
September 28-30: PodCamp East -- Wilmington, DE Once
upon a time, there was a little event that two guys started in Boston.
Named after BarCamp, they called it PodCamp and expected 50 people to
show up. Instead 300 people came and started a movement. Today, PodCamps
have occurred on every continent except Antarctica and have helped
thousands of people around the world learn, share, and grow their new
media skills. [LEARN MORE]
September 28-30: StartUp Weekend Philadelphia -- GGD PHL Discount! It's
that time again, Philadelphia Startup Weekend 4.0 (PHLSW) is just
around the corner! It'll be held September 28–30 at the University of
the Arts Hamilton Hall! Startup Weekend is an intense and invigorating
creative event where entrepreneurs, developers, and designers work
together to build and launch a startup in 54 hours. Sound crazy? It is!
In the best possible way! Use the coupon code GGD to get $40 off registration for a developer or designer. [LEARN MORE]
September 29: GirlDevelopIt Philly: Build a Blog or Site with WordPress This
class is for beginners who want to use WordPress as an easy, fast way
to set up a blog or a website. We’ll guide you step-by-step through all
the basic aspects of WordPress development. [LEARN MORE]
September 29: NorthEast PA (NEPA) BlogCon -- Nanticoke, PA NEPA
BlogCon is a day-long, not-for-profit blogging conference that benefits
The Arc of Luzerne County and the NEPA Veterans Multicare Alliance. [LEARN MORE]
September 29: Philly Zombie Prom Performances
from Live Not On Evil and The Young Werewolves and DJs Kiltboy, Dave
Ghoul and Mike Saga fill the night! Zombie makeup stations, free Prom
Photos and more! Host Robert Drake will crown the Zombie King and Queen
of Philadelphia as he rings in the official start of HALLOWEEN season in
Philadelphia! [LEARN MORE]
October 2: Pennsylvania Conference for Women The
Pennsylvania Conference for Women, the largest women’s conference in
the state, offers community and connection, information and inspiration,
motivation and momentum. [LEARN MORE]
October 3: Alpha Girls Screening at the Troc Alpha Girls was a 2012 Philadelphia Geek Awards nominee for Feature Length Indie Film of the Year!
Alpha
Beta house is the oldest and most elite sorority in the world. Some of
the most influential politicians, celebrities and scientists are Alpha
Girl alumnae. After performing long hidden rituals, some of the sisters
suspect that their good fortune is tainted by demonic evil. They quickly
realize firsthand that the consequences of their curiosity are much
more gruesome than any of them could have possibly imagined. [LEARN MORE]
October 3-6: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing -- Baltimore The
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of
conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women
in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their
respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government
communities. [LEARN MORE]
October 4: Greensgrow Philly Food Swap A
Food Swap is part silent auction/part village marketplace/part
fun-loving open house where your homemade creations (breads, preserves,
special concoctions, canned goods, etc.) become your own personal
currency for use in swapping with other participants. What better way to
diversify your pantry and rub shoulders with friends and neighbors? [LEARN MORE]
October 5: Making Things Move with CSS and JavaScript It
seems like there are a million ways to make things move on the web
these days, which makes the why and how behind your animations even more
important! In this workshop we’ll look at how to get the most out of
your transitions and animations with CSS. Then we’ll add JavaScript into
the mix for even more powerful options. [LEARN MORE]
October 10-14: Design Philadelphia DesignPhiladelphia
demonstrates, supports and promotes the ability that design has to
generate innovation, solve problems, enhance daily life, and influence
both the perception and economics of the region. [LEARN MORE]
October 13: #TECHmunch Philadelphia Food Blogger Conference TECHmunch
is making it's debut in Philly to serve up tasty strategies for food
blogger success! The day-long event is an intimate workshop and
interactive conversation that will inspire even the most seasoned food
blogger. The goal is to provide the ingredients you need to succeed and
pursue your passion. [LEARN MORE]
October 15: The Oatmeal Book Signing Tour I'll be giving a short lecture about bigfoot's nipple hair and then signing some books. [LEARN MORE]
October 20-21: WordCamp Philly WordCamps
are different. WordCamp Philly is intended to be the premiere
WordPress-related technical conference in Philadelphia. It is a larger,
two day event, with a Saturday full of learning opportunities. [LEARN MORE]
October 25: Academy of Natural Sciences Mega-Bad Movie Night: You Call It! Join
us at the Academy after hours to watch this "awesomely awful" movie!
The Academy's own experts will be on stage to comment on the many
scientific absurdities--think Mystery Science Theater 3000! "You Call It": Bigfoot, 2012: Ice Age, or 2010: Moby Dick? [LEARN MORE]
October 27: Philly Zine Fest The
Fest showcases local artists and zinesters, as well as zine distros,
bringing DIY, radical, whimsical, and artistic small press publications
to the public. Ranging from bike repair to poetry to crafts, the Zine
Fest is a great place to go to learn new things, connect with local
writers, and get involved with creating new forms of accessible media. [LEARN MORE]
April 19-29, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Tech Week [SAVE THE DATE]
April 20, 2013 (yes 2013): Philly Women in Tech Summit [SAVE THE DATE]
June 27-29, 2013 (yes 2013): National Homebrewers Conference An
AHA conference is an amazing confluence of incredible beer, knowledge
and community. This guide was created to help you get the most out of
your time at the conference. It’s a lot to take in; there’s something
going on for 16 hours or more a day. So, our best advice is to have a
plan, and don’t be greedy. There will be more beers in the next
event…and the next…and the next…you get the picture. It’s a marathon,
not a sprint. [SAVE THE DATE]