Food, conversation & women in IT
I’m just home from my first London Girl Geek Dinner. I was late, of course (sigh), because of a last-minute production problem that needed handing over to a different team in an orderly fashion — important client has problems with an API: can’t wait. And then the Tube broke down at Paddington, and I needed to figure out the buses. London transport.
But I’m glad I went.
The event was sponsored, which was fine with me, by Astraware, who make mobile games. Unfortunately only for the Windows Mobile platform, which I don’t have. A C++ dev whose name I didn’t catch showed me the Solitaire she had written. Very slick, though I kept losing.
Compared to the regular geek dinners, the crowd had a better age mix and was dominated by developers, not young whiz-kid entrepreneurs. Not that I mind whiz-kid entrepreneurs, but I the conversations in this setting turned out more pleasant in the end. About Wikipedia, sci-fi and fantasy, fanfiction, Doctor Who, film, barcamps and similar geek events, languages, sibling rivalry… and the food was better and more plentiful (too plentiful, even).
All in all, loved it, and will sure come back.
chris @ September 27, 2007