This presentation was put together by Glennette Clark. She spoke on this topic a NoVA Girl Geek Dinner #4 and I for one, found it very interesting.
Agile Web Development
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Oct 24
A little late, but we had NoVA Girl Geek #4, which was also our one year anniversary last month and had such a great time.
I want to thank everyone who came out, It was nice seeing familiar faces and meeting new people.
A special thanks to Melanie (@sisarina on twitter) who heads up the #DCTwirlies, #DCTweetup and #DCTwixr events; for hipping me to Nando’s Peri Peri. It is such a great location to hold events like our girl geek dinners AND their food is seriously yummy.
An extra special thanks to Glennette Clark (@glennette) of Lazy Smart | UX and Jen Consalvo (@Noreaster) of Shiny Heart Ventures for speaking.
We are planning NoVA Girl Geek #5, the last girl geek dinner for 2009, so stay tuned for more details on that. If you’d like to speak/present at this dinner, please send us an email or a DM on Twitter.
We want to thank everyone for coming to NoVA Girl Geek Dinner #3. It was really great meeting and talking with so many new people.
Thanks to Ghina (I believe she’s who suggested Continental), who suggested Continental Modern Pool Lounge as a place to hold the event. Excellent choice. We had a blast.
We are already thinking about the next event. As always, we welcome your suggestions.
Until then, you can follow us on twitter:
@novagirlgeeks
Jessica is @JessicaMMoss
Naomi is @digitialfangirl
A few photos will be soon to follow on this post…
She’s Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia - the DC Area.
April 18th McLean Virginia (Tyson’s Corner).
http://www.shesgeeky.org/
Early bird admission is $40 until April 1 - $45 regular until April 11 and $50 after that.
Student admission is $20
It’s spring time and we are ready to get out to have a little fun. We are so happy the first two events were such a success. We hope everyone comes out for this social event, so we can all let our hair down, mingle and have a great time.
We’ve decided to host this event at the Continental Modern Pool Lounge - http://www.modernpoollounge.com/photos.html, which came highly recommended by some geeky ladies.
Please note: This will be a non-sponsored event.
*INVITATION*
She’s Geeky is coming to Northern Virginia - the DC Area.
April 18th McLean Virginia (Tyson’s Corner).
http://www.shesgeeky.org/
Early bird admission is $40 until April 1 - $45 regular until April 11 and $50 after that.
Student admission is $20
We are inviting women from a divers range of industries together for a day of interactive learning and industry cross pollination.
To us Geekiness is self defined - from those with advanced degrees in mathematics, science and engineering. To skilled programmers who are in large enterprises, government or startups. To women who have taught themselves how to code the PHP on their side bars on their blog or just super enthusiastic users of technology.
Each city has a different mix of technologies - DC has a variety of fields
* the nonprofit and advocacy sectors,
* government, defense, aerospace, and intelligence
* Web portals - like AOL
* startups innovating
The range of topics discussed is diverse - in California you can see the list of sessions.
http://shesgeeky.org/wiki/Sg2009wc:Notes
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*How does the unconference day work?*
The sessions are put forward by the women who attend the event - and are diverse. They include expert topics about their particular expertise, hosting conversations about issues of interest both technical and personal (like how to balance work and family), exploring start-up ideas, introductions or deep dives to different programming languages or frameworks, sharing stories about what it was like to work in the early days of the industry, introduction to public speaking and many others.
Beginning at 9 AM each day, we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, through a highly participative process, create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone there.
From there, we go to separate areas or rooms assigned to each topic. The session can be a presentation, inquiry about a question or discussion about an issue or technical field. or. One participant volunteers to record the proceedings.
The notes from each session are collected in the newsroom, then a book is compiled with all the notes from the conference and distributed to everyone who attended.
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Sponsorship opportunities for both small and large companies are available too.
If you have questions you can e-mail us at info@shesgeeky.org
@Chelly527 Considering they just did a redesign a few months ago, this one was a shock. But I kinda like it. It’s almost a twitter clone.
We are looking for guest bloggers for the http://www.novagirlgeekdinner.com/ blog. DM us if interested.
have you joined the Nova Girl Geek Dinner Facebook group? http://tinyurl.com/c8n8da
Looking for Guest Bloggers
Mar 13
If you’re interested in guest blogging on the NoVA Girl Geek Dinners blog, please leave a comment with a link to your blog.
We now have a Facebook group. So, if you’re a girl geek in DC/MD/VA and you want to connect witrh other girl geeks and stay updated on what we’re doing - JOIN US!!!
The second Northern Virginia Girl Geek Dinner on December 17, 2008 was another roaring success. Over 20 women braved the cold and winter holiday rush to attend a wonderful talk and discussion led by Julie Lerman, http://www.thedatafarm.com. Everyone shared their thoughts on professionalism in the work place, what makes women special in a technology field, and future focuses for WIT. Thank you to Julie for making the trip down from Vermont to share her experiences!
Julie Lerman
Many thanks also go to Viget Labs, http://www.viget.com, for hosting us at their office in Falls Church. It is a pleasure to work with such helpful and accommodating people who are interested in helping out the developer community.
Our next dinner will be in March or April. We look forward to seeing you there!
NoVA Girl Geek Dinner #2
Nov 14
We would like to invite all women who are in technology fields or consider themselves a “girl geek” to attend an evening to meet, socialize, and network with women in technology. Men are invited if accompanied by a Girl Geek. Appetizers and beverages will be provided.
Date: December 17, 2008
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location:
Viget Labs
400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22046
Presentation: Defining the -ette in Geekette
Twenty years ago, Julie Lerman learned that she had to act and dress like the guys in order to fit into the IT Industry. Today she’s found that the cover-up is no longer necessary. Many of her “girly” qualities have become advantageous in a world of geeks where she now speaks at conferences all over the world and has just finished writing her first programming book for O’Reilly Press. Julie will share with the NOVA Girl Geeks some of this historical perspective and lessons learned.
Presented by: Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for more than 20 years and is the author of O’Reilly’s Programming Entity Framework . Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and writes articles for many well-known technical publications. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. You can read Julie’s blog at http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog.
You MUST register with Eventbrite to attend this event. To register for this event, please go to http://novagirlgeekdinner2.eventbrite.com
The 1st Nova Girl Geek Dinner was a success!!! We had a great turnout, a wonderful presentation by Dr. Joanne McGrath Cohoon and some really delicious food. We want to thank everyone again for coming out to support this event and we look forward to doing it all over again.
Another special thanks to:
Viget Labs for loaning us their office space to hold this event. We greatly appreciate it.
Microsoft for sponsoring our 1st Girl Geek Dinner; thank you so much.
Dr. Joanne McGrath Cohoon for accepting our invitation to come out and present. It was an awesome presentation.
Please continue to visit our blog as we will continue to post updates about future NoVA Girl Geek Dinners and other geeky news.
Pictures and video from the 1st NoVA Girl Geek Dinner coming soon……..
The Northern Virginia Girl Geek Dinner group would like to thank Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com, for their support. They have graciously agreed to sponsor our inaugural dinner. Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie, http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie, has articulated how happy Microsoft is to support the local developer (and geek) communities, specifically the NoVa GGD Group.
Thank you, Microsoft!
The Northern Virginia Girl Geek Dinner Group is pleased to announce our speaker and presentation information for the inaugural dinner on September 12, 2008. Please visit http://novagirlgeekdinner.eventbrite.com to sign up for this event!
Presentation: It’s Not My Job
The creators of computing technology are mostly white men, and that is a problem. Women in computing and out of computing, and society as a whole, suffer because of this problem. Even as growing numbers of people and organizations work toward a solution, too many continue to abdicate responsibility. What will it take to bring gender balance to computing?
Presented by: Dr. Joanne McGrath Cohoon
Dr. Joanne McGrath Cohoon holds positions as Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and as Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Computing Research Association, NCWIT, and the Sloan Foundation, Cohoon uses perspectives and methods from sociology to conduct nationwide studies of recruitment and retention in computing. Her results are reported in scholarly journals and an award-winning book, co-edited with William Aspray, from MIT Press – Women and Information Technology, Research on Underrepresentation.
Registration is Open
Aug 14
Who: All girl geeks. Men are invited if accompanied by a Girl Geek.
What: Dinner and presentation by Dr. Joanne Cohoon
Where:
Viget Labs
400 S. Maple Avenue, Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22046
When: September 12, 2008 7:00-9:00pm
Why: Meet, socialize, and network with women in technology!
You MUST register with Eventbrite to attend this event.
To register for this event, please go to http://novagirlgeekdinner.eventbrite.com/.
Take a look at a video from the London Girl Geek Dinner
