Thu 29 Mar 2007
Geekdinner, 28 March
Posted by Marius under Collaboration , Community , Entertainment , Ubuntu[7] Comments
Yesterday evening (28 March) I attended the Geekdinner that was held at Barbarellas in Constantia Village and my overall opinion is that is was a great success and everybody had a great time.
It was good to meet some virtual acquaintances like Tania and Neil face to face and also to catch up with old friends like Ian and Joe. Have also met a lot of other people but names is not one of my strong points.
The talks was good and interesting .. not too long and in all likelyhood the right kind of talks for the people that attended. I particurly liked that Ubuntu was promoted and people were asked to get involved. Neil’s talk on OpenID gave me the idea to implement OpenID on this blog.
There is one thing that I find strange — were is all the geek girls? Out of a group of about 50 I only counted 5. BTW, what does one call a female geek?
Thanks again Joe for arranging .. was a job well done.
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March 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
What about ‘geekette’?
I think a geek girl will probably prefer to just be called a geek
March 29th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I think you call a female geek a “geek”.
With about one exception, I think the dinner was definitely not of the “Boys Night Out” variety, and was accessible to anyone.
Hopefully if the message spreads, we’ll naturally see more of every type of underrepresented geek attending.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Thanks to the organisers, but the GeekDinner was not exactly female-friendly. While there may have been about one example of latent misogyny, there was a whole room of men remaining silent about it. See blog for details.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
So sad that I had overclocked myself or I would’ve been there to swell the numbers to 6!! ..damn shame that I didn’t get to meet you Marius
Scoble was saying that he’s been concerned that the geekgirls aren’t coming to Barcamps etc. offline events disproportion8 to the number to their active ONLINE participation. Esp. after the Kathy Sierra incident who is one of the most prominent of the women coders, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be on the increase
March 29th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I haven’t read Melissa’s blog, but I did not find the event female-unfriendly at all. I felt very at home. Maybe I just hit it lucky. I will reply later about why I think there weren’t so many geek girls.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Melissa — think I understand what you mean .. us men can sometime be so inconsiderate.
Max — yes a pity we did not meet. We must just make it some other time.
Tania — was great eventually meeting you. It must have been the table you sat at which made you feel so at home
March 29th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
uhhhhh “Feek”?