2 | Sarah Bale
05/10/2010 at 11:00 am

Good afternoon,

I work as Marketing Manager for Simpleweb, a web development company down by the waterfront. Someone has mentioned your dinners to me today and I would be really interested in coming along. Whilst I do work in Marketing, because it is web development most events I go to are all males and it would be lovely to come and meet some other females who work in technology in Bristol. I would be happy to get involved in organising/talking/volunteering.

Best, Sarah

Bristol Girl Geek Dinners
21/03/2011 at 2:34 pm

Hi Sarah,

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.
We had a long break for the girl geek dinners in Bristol but we are now back and running!

Our next event is this Wednesday at Bristol Uni. It is free of charge and you can book here: http://bristolggd.eventbrite.com/
To be informed of our next events, you can join the mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/bristol-girl-geek-dinners

We are actually looking for people willing to help us out.
I’ll organise a special meeting for that at the end of next month. I’ll let you know about it if you are still interested.

Looking forward to meeting you!
Jessica

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4 | steve virgin
28/02/2011 at 1:32 pm

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Wiki_Academy_1

Hi

Connecting Bristol’s Stephen Hilton suggested I get in touch with you.

I am on the Board of Wikimedia UK (I organised the recent 10th Birthday event in town where Jimmy Wales spoke up at the University of Bristol). In order to get projects & opportunities moving across the city we are organising a small WikiAcademy for all interested parties across the city on Saturday March 19th at the University of Bristol.

This is an opportunity for would-be partners, cultural content holders, schools, organisations etc – to learn more about what we do. Learn about the best way to engage with Wikipedia & its sister projects. And to see examples of success stories where there has been good engagement & positive benefits for both content donors & the Wiki community.

Above is the work in progress Wiki – shaping this event. What we’d like is for a leading member of the KWMC to come and attend on the day, learn more & then perhaps we can all meet and discuss ways in which we could work together?

As Jimmy Wales said when he spoke in the city we need to widen the involvement beyond our standard 87% male profile (which we have at present). We’d be very interested to hear how we could do this if anyone across the ‘team’ has any ideas?

Don’t want to restrict the involvement to this though, far far from it. It might just be a point at which we can start.

Steve Virgin
Board Director Wikimedia UK