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Women in Technology - and food

(Sounds better than the term girly geek dinner doesn't it).  Sarah did a fantastic job mobilising women to mix, network and interact with each other the other night.  Almost all of the women I chatted to were energised and motivated.  There were some amazing men there too who seemed to be failry chuffed to have been invited.  I'd have loved to spend more time chatting to everyone (and persuading the lovely Dave that he needs to upgrade his eglu to increase his production line.  Sorry that Neil had to go too - would have been good to talk for a little bit longer.  Improbulus did some serious networking too, and captured lots of names

And the great thing was that almost everyone said that they'd go to the next dinner too.  its just the term "geeks" that seem to put women off.  So ok, what do we call a female geek then?  I'd love to know...

 

Published Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:47 PM by Eileen_Brown
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Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:03 PM by Adam Field

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A geekette?

Grrrl seems to be the fave on all the xbox gaming sites
Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:09 PM by Blake Handler

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I'm from Southern California, where the guys are "Dudes" and the girls "Dudettes" and yes, we actually say Dude -- right Mate?

Also. . .the link for Neil is broken :-(
Thursday, October 13, 2005 5:26 PM by Helen

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I'm proud to be called a geek :)
Friday, October 14, 2005 3:11 AM by Mash

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A Sheek??
Friday, October 14, 2005 5:52 AM by Akin Akintayo

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Oh! Come on.

What really is wrong with geek? It definitely has moved on from freckled with big glasses and no life to something more exciting.

See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks

I would definitely take exception to nerd however.

But then like I said in an earlier not many geeks would admit to being geeks.

As for what a we should call a female geek, I never knew there were genders in identifying geeks just as there is none to identifying mad scientists or crazy professors.

Male and female made He geeks, thus saith the Book.

Geek it is, both unisex and sexless.
Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:35 PM by Frosty at Home

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A female geek? No idea. It's all Geek to me.
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