Bristol Girl Geek Dinners

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We are currently planning an exciting event in collaboration with Wikipedia on the 18th August – Girl Geeks vs Wikimeet. This will be a Girl Geek Dinner merged with a ‘Wikimeet’ including  a talk from an inspiring female Wikipedian. The theme will be ‘Encouraging more women to edit Wikipedia’ as currently only 13-14% of Wikipedia [...]