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Join the powerhouse panel of girl geeks talking digital arts & entertainment - Get more info and tickets at http://mvff2009.inticketing.com/filmeven
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Geeks have come a long way from taped-up glasses to high-powered movers and shakers delivering innovative digital art and entertainment. This panel explores the intersection of technology and creativity ...
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A video analysis, "Girl Gamers: Video Games and the Female Audience" made by Alexander and game theorist Daniel Floyd,
reviews picture after picture of scantily clad animated women from
various games.
Source: www.youtube.com
Incessant pandering to teenage boys needs to change in order to retain the valuable market of women who are flocking to the gaming world. "As an industry, we need to seriously reconsider our marketing. We need to examine our habit of manipulatively using women for appeal -- "booth babes" at our conv...
Join us for the 2009 Google Workshop for Women Engineers...
Leah Culver, Pownce co-founder and lead developer --featured on the 1st Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner Panel Discussion-- now graces the cover (and several articles!) of the July/August MIT Technology Review magazine. Kudos to Leah! Source: Kevin Rose's Note on Pownce
"...and meet friends at Girl Geek Dinners, the first of which drew more than 600 women." "At the San Francisco Girl Geek Dinner earlier this year, Leah Culver, 25, the developer of Pownce, a microblogging platform, described the extra efforts she's made to convince potential employers that...
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Thanks Gail -- You are the first person to actually suggest a good solution to an obvious problem. It was unfortunate that we maxed out a 600 person event space and due to fire marshall concerns, could not accomodate even the most verbally abusive individuals who felt wronged by the registration process.
Moving forward..., I will post minimal information about the event on third-party sites like Facebook and Upcoming, direct all registrations to the correct URL, and explicitly state the need to register at said URL in addition to marking your intent to attend on the third-party site, because we do have a website at http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/
Thanks again for your comment - it was helpful!
-AngieRead More
Moving forward..., I will post minimal information about the event on third-party sites like Facebook and Upcoming, direct all registrations to the correct URL, and explicitly state the need to register at said URL in addition to marking your intent to attend on the third-party site, because we do have a website at http://www.bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/
Thanks again for your comment - it was helpful!
-AngieRead More
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Long-time users of Facebook and Upcoming usually recognize these websites' event promotion tools as well, tools. Clicking "I will attend" or "I'm attending" on either one of these sites is actually *not* a registration. It's an indication of your interest, and a way to spread the word of a cool event you saw on Faceboo...k and plan to go to. But next time, read the entire event posting -- there was a registration link and all 600+ spots were filled somehow.
Google and their event planners did an AMAZING job of hosting, catering, and sponsoring the event. I posted on various sites the event info *and* registration link so if you didn't read the listing, you didn't register properly.
A lesson learned on all parts - people don't read, and I don't write well enough to please 100%. I merely executed a big vision I had for celebrating and supporting girl geeks in the Bay Area, that's all.Read More
Google and their event planners did an AMAZING job of hosting, catering, and sponsoring the event. I posted on various sites the event info *and* registration link so if you didn't read the listing, you didn't register properly.
A lesson learned on all parts - people don't read, and I don't write well enough to please 100%. I merely executed a big vision I had for celebrating and supporting girl geeks in the Bay Area, that's all.Read More
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I'd like to address the issue of misunderstandings of the registration process.
There was no "selection process" involved as people were registered on a first come, first served basis at the Google-hosted event registration page, which was honored first & foremost when the event reached the maximum capacity for the ven...ue. Google is entirely supportive of girl geeks and women in technology, and is happy to offer their campus as a venue to host these types of gatherings.
Also, there will be many more Girl Geek Dinners to come, and everyone will have plenty of opportunities to attend a future event.Read More
There was no "selection process" involved as people were registered on a first come, first served basis at the Google-hosted event registration page, which was honored first & foremost when the event reached the maximum capacity for the ven...ue. Google is entirely supportive of girl geeks and women in technology, and is happy to offer their campus as a venue to host these types of gatherings.
Also, there will be many more Girl Geek Dinners to come, and everyone will have plenty of opportunities to attend a future event.Read More
