Bristol Girl Geek Dinners

Here are the Pecha Kucha presentations from event number 12 at infineon last Thursday (19th January).

We are currently planning our next event for February. If you are interested in giving a Pecha Kucha at the next event please get in touch!

Maria Felice:
Using advanced ultrasonic technology to detect stress corrosion cracks during aerospace maintenance (powerpoint file)

Elena Hensinger:
What makes us click? — Modelling and Predicting the Appeal of News Articles (pdf file opens in browser window)

Iwona Gajda:
Self sustainable cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cells (powerpoint file)

Having recently acheived charitable status, the English Wikipedia are now looking to overcome the challenges that come with continuing growth and professionalisation. To this end, the current Board will soon be starting to advertise for expressions of interest in becoming a Trustee.

Presently, the Board is mainly composed of people who are active editors of one or more of the Wikimedia projects. However, they would particularly like to encourage new trustees who have valuable skills and experience – regardless of whether they are currently involved in the Wikimedia movement. The only essentials are commitment to their vision of making the world’s knowledge freely available to all, and an understanding of the dynamics of a charity that relies on a community of volunteers for its impact. They value increasing Board diversity and in particular encourage female candidates to apply.

If you are interested in this role or know someone else who might be you can find out more here: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/01/could-you-help-lead-one-of-britains-newest-and-fastest-growing-charities/

This Thursday, in addition to our main speaker, Dr Constance Fleuriot, we will have 3 very short ‘Pecha Kucha’ presentations from 3 PhD students:

Maria Felice:
Using advanced ultrasonic technology to detect stress corrosion cracks during aerospace maintenance

Elena Hensinger:
What makes us click? — Modelling and Predicting the Appeal of News Articles

Iwona Gajda:
Self sustainable cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cells

Here are posters for our two events in January. Please print them out and put them up

Girl Geeks next event – come and celebrate Wikipedia’s 11th birthday party with us: Wiki birthday editing party. 1-5pm Sunday 15th Bristol Uni. Food served at 3. SIGN UP: http://wikibirthday.eventbrite.com/

GGD #11

Wikipedia Editing Birthday Party at the University of Bristol on Sunday 15th January from 1 – 5pm. Wikipedia will be providing nibbles and assisting in some hands-on experience of Wiki-editing, so bring your laptop. It’s also Wikipedia’s birthday so time to celebrate. More details on our event page.

Places on this event are limited – you can sign up for it here

GGD #12

This dinner is taking place on Thursday 19th January at 6:30 for 7pm. It is sponsored by Infineon who are going to host the event at their offices in Stoke Gifford and provide us with pizza. I am pleased to announce that we now have a speaker for this event – Constance Fleuriot, a Research Associate based in the Pervasive Media Studio. We also have a few five minute slots for people to give a short presentation about their PhDs – get in touch if you are interested in doing so. There are more details on our event page.

Sign up for this event here

Here’s a poster for our next event, please print one out and stick it up

Bristol GGD #10

Back to the Watershed for our final event of the year – girl geek drinks. Our first dinner of next year will be in January and we will announce all the details of that soon.

Please register here: http://girlgeekdecemberdrinks.eventbrite.com/

So after our brilliant event with Wikimedia in August we are determined to keep the ball rolling and have decided to alternate dinner with drinks every other month.

This means that for our next event on 22nd September we’ll be meeting in the Watershed for drinks and an informal chat. If you’re interested in helping out with Bristol Girl Geeks or have ideas for venues, dinners or speakers or you’d just like to socialise with a gang of friendly, like minded individuals then please come along!

As always we do not exclude men, but they must be accompanied by a Girl Geek so we don’t get outnumbered!

Please register your interest here:

girlgeekdrinks.eventbrite.com

Our next Girl Geek Event is going to be something a little bit different. We will be teaming up with Wikimedia UK for a Girl Geeks vs Wikimeet event, aimed at encouraging more women to edit Wikipedia. This event will be held at Bristol University on 18th August from 7pm.

We will be serving a free buffet and cake sponsored by Wikimedia and the guest speaker will be Fiona Apps- a female Wikipedian who will give us the inside scoop on what it’s like to be a Wikipedian. Please bring your laptops as we aim to have some hands-on editing sessions taking place during the event.

For more details, and to register for this event, please go to our next dinner page.