... Please share with all the girl geeks you know\!
The first Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner will be held the evening of Thursday, March 5th, at Sun's conference center in Building One of the Sun campus at 500 Eldorado Blvd., Broomfield CO 80021. Food and drink will be provided; this event is free of charge, and begins at 6 pm.
Please indicate your attendance on the Facebook group [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133159715320] or (if you aren't on Facebook and don't want to be) below on this page , or simply RSVP to me, Deirdré Straughan, deirdre.straughan@sun.com
h3. What's a Girl Geek Dinner?
Girl Geek Dinners were founded in London in 2005 by Sarah Blow, who got tired of being vastly outnumbered by men at tech events. You can hear her story here: [http://girlgeekdinners.com/about-us-2/] . Since then, the idea has spread worldwide (check the right sidebar on [http://girlgeekdinners.com/] for a full list of locations).
A Girl Geek Dinner is an event for women in technology, however they choose to define/identify themselves (from scientists to programmers to bloggers). Attendees are only women, but any woman attending may, if she chooses, invite one and ONLY one male guest. This means that the ratio of women to men is always at least 50:50 - a far cry from the usually 90:10 men:women ratio we're accustomed to at tech events. And that's a nice change for tech women. If you haven't yet experienced a GGD, you'll be amazed at how different the atmosphere is, and how much sheer fun there is in just hanging out with other "geeky girls".
The agenda for this GGD includes a presentation by Sun's Linda Skrocki and Deirdré Straughan on *Social Networking, New Media, and the Enterprise.*
But there will also be plenty of time to just meet and mingle, and make plans for future GGDs (Sun does not "own" this event, nor do we want to - we welcome assistance, participation, and sponsorship, and/or suggestions about how to find any of those things).
We look forward to meeting you there\!
h2. Attending
(see the [Facebook Front Range GGD event page|http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133159715320#/s.php?k=100000004&id=133159715320&gr=5&act=future&sid=82ab893f6c1650be634a0ebe6bf9b8c8] for more attendees)
|| Name\\ || Affiliation\\ || Contact\\ || (optional) male guest\\ || ||
| Deirdré Straughan\\ | Sun Microsystems\\ | deirdre dot straughan at sun dot com\\ | | |
| Joyce Colson\\ | Colson Quinn Attorneys\\ | | | |
| Jeanne Batza | | | | |
| Renata Colitti O'Day | Brocade | | | | |