Archive for July, 2009

Playing video games for charity?

Posted in Events on 07/09/2009 07:07 pm by Veronica Giggey

That’s right.  Our friends from Fenix Solutions have put together a unique competition to benefit CHEO. 

The action will be taking place on FOUR theatre screens with networked Xbox 360 consoles playing Gears of War 2!

The name of the game is Techboom and it will be held on August 28th, 2009 at Silvercity Gloucester, looking at 11PM as a start time.  Go to the Techboom site  for full details and register here. 

I wonder if the fact that I don’t know what Gears of War is will get me kicked out of our Girl Geek Dinner Chapter?

Crowdsourcing GGD – July 6 – Topics for Discussion

Posted in Events on 07/05/2009 02:52 pm by Kelly Rusk

So our Girl Geek Dinner Ottawa Kick-off party is happening on Monday July 6 at 7 pm (have you RSVPed yet???). The purpose of this first event is to get the Girl Geek community in Ottawa together in one room and discover what we can do to make sure every GGD event is awesome and enjoyed. The added bonus of course is we’ll all have a great time anyway!

We’ve come up with a few questions to consider that we’d like your input on. If you can, have a look before attending–otherwise we’ll just chat about them on Monday:

  1. What kinds of topics are you interested in for GGD?
  2. What kinds of speakers?  Do you have any recommendations or contacts?
  3. Any ideas for sponsorships?
  4. Any restaurant preferences?
  5. Would you pay to confirm your attendance?
  6. Would you rather pay a $10 fee ahead of time, or pay the cost of dinner ahead of time?
  7. if you pay $10, what would you like us to do with the money?  Buy
    appetizers, use it for speakers, charity?
  8. Anyone want to help organize?  Doesn’t have to be a long term
    thing.  If you have a contact who you think would be a good speaker,
    maybe you can help with just that one event.

Looking forward to seeing all you geeky girls there!

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