Girl Geek Scotland

[Morna Simpson]

Hi Folks,

After a turbulent year we are aiming to get Girl Geek Scotland off the ground again in Edinburgh. We are looking for hands on help in organising the events - speakers, catering, sponsorship the lot!! It will take a team effort and we need folks who have time to help in a practical way.

We are planning a organiser/committee meeting for the 22nd of November - time & place TBC but prolly around 7pm. 

If you would like to get involved or know someone who would please keep checking @girlgeeks on Twitter and our Facebook page for updates. 

https://www.facebook.com/girlgeekscotland?bookmark_t=page

If there is enough interest in Glasgow we will do the same there. 

Thanks
Morna/

[Anny Deery]

Morning Morna

I'm based in Glasgow but am happy to get involved in helping kick-start the Edinburgh Girl Geek events and will be able to make 7pm on Thu 22 Nov. Please do keep me posted.

All the best

Anny

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[Morna Simpson]

Hi Everyone,

A huge thanks for suggestions and to those who offered to help with Girl Geek Scotland. 

I am really aware that folks have busy lives and can't commit too much - so we are aiming to find enough volunteers to share the workload and we will be focused on the GG Dinner events for now. 

Girl Geek Scotland is part of the global Girl Geek Dinner network and I'm told we have somewhere in the region of 90,000 people involved in some way. From 2008 - 2010 we developed a formula that seemed to work pretty well - and became known for our Girl Geek Dinners as well as developing a set of weekend Enterprise Workshops that managed to support at least 17 new ventures as they got off the ground. As a totally voluntary organisation all the funding we received went into paying expenses for speakers or participants and lowering the cost of ticket prices. 

BTW men are very welcome to come to our events. In Dundee we had 40% male attendance which was great… and there were always a few guys attending at our other locations. Our primary objectives are to promote female speakers and role models, and to help prevent drop-out from female professionals in the industry. I'm sure lots of you recognise this is a big issue. Girls who attended a GGD often went on to start attending other tech events which were typically male dominated… and that is part of the way we measured success. 

We currently have enough cash in the bank to help support up to 4 events - so provided there is enough hands-on-deck support and interest from the community we can get this good thing going again in Scotland.  

We are still trying to find the best time and place to meet and I'll post it here when I get word back from some of the others. 

Anny, Anna-Marie and Maria - thanks so much for your interest in helping and hope to meet you very soon! 

Morna

On 10 Nov 2012, at 08:32, Jo Walsh wrote:

I often can't make evenings, but definitely would like to help Do Something to up the ambient level of female geekiness.

http://www.mentorset.org.uk came highly recommended at EMF Camp. One could consider signing up to become a mentor, or ask to get one.

The same speaker recommended "Delusions of Gender" by Cordelia Fine. Fun with testing mass psychology, helpful concepts like "stereotype threat", problems shared by male nurses, etc.

She also discussed the "leaky pipeline" whereby women are being put off geekiness years before they turn up at university here; by dry, uninspired or absent instruction at school.

Another suggestion is volunteering to run after school code clubs, hacking with arduinos, etc but I feel that's propping up the Big Society, and probably work out pretty self-selecting anyway.

I should offer my devastating laser beam of advice to someone through MentorSET

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[Jo Walsh]

I often can't make evenings, but definitely would like to help Do Something to up the ambient level of female geekiness.

http://www.mentorset.org.uk came highly recommended at EMF Camp. One could consider signing up to become a mentor, or ask to get one.

The same speaker recommended "Delusions of Gender" by Cordelia Fine. Fun with testing mass psychology, helpful concepts like "stereotype threat", problems shared by male nurses, etc.

She also discussed the "leaky pipeline" whereby women are being put off geekiness years before they turn up at university here; by dry, uninspired or absent instruction at school.

Another suggestion is volunteering to run after school code clubs, hacking with arduinos, etc but I feel that's propping up the Big Society, and probably work out pretty self-selecting anyway.

I should offer my devastating laser beam of advice to someone through MentorSET

[Morna Simpson]

Hi Anny,

I hope you have managed to keep track of our Girl Geek Scotland updates… 

Here they are again … hope you will make it along : )

 

Informal Girl Geek Scotland meet 

On 18th Dec 

At 6pm 

The mulled wine stand in the German Market 

Edinburgh

Everyone welcome! 

This one is just banter chitchat and hopefully a bit of informal prep for an organising committee on the 16th below. 

Committee Meeting

16th January @ 6pm

Room 7.02 Appleton Tower

School of Informatics

Crichton street

Edinburgh

We are posting new information on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/295309108438/?bookmark_t=group

On Twitter @girlgeeks

and will soon revive www.girlgeekscotland.co.uk 

Hope to see you there : )

Morna