After last month’s Agile discussion Garry Shutler got in touch to suggest another format for July’s event.
He’ll be posting about the structure closer to the event but the idea is to engage all of you in deciding where the the discussion should go and what topics it should cover.
He’ll also be leading the evening.
All there is to know at the moment is it’ll be at Bluu at 18:30 on Tuesday the 14th of July.
See you there.
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Just been passed this press release for Nottingham’s Girl Geek Dinners being organised in Nottingham again by Elsa Bartley.
Nottingham is getting its own Girl Geek Dinners, which bring together women who work in technical — and traditionally male — environments. Girl Geek Dinners were founded in 2005 in London, by Sarah Blow. Now a global phenomenon, there are over 53 groups internationally including Japan, Iceland and Malaysia.
Now ‘Nottingham Girl Geek Dinners’ will provide support to women in the area’s strong technology, science and engineering sectors and female entrepreneurs across the region.
The first Nottingham group meeting is on the 22nd June 2009, 7pm at Fat Cats. Speaker Susi O’Neill will talk about ‘Social Media for Business’. Tickets cost £10 to cover the cost of food and are available from http://nottinghamgirlgeekdinners.eventbrite.com/
Elsa Bartley, organiser of Nottingham’s Girl Geek Dinners has worked for nearly 10 years in the technology sector.
I’ve really enjoyed my professional career and I’d like to encourage more women into technology; I think we can bring a different perspective. I’m really looking forward to meeting other proffessional women and sharing experiences and expertise.
If you would like to know about future events or are interested in talking at Nottingham Girl Geek Dinners then you can find more information online at http://www.nottinghamgirlgeekdinners.co.uk.
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It was a great turnout for June’s event. With my desire to move things more technical I was expecting a big drop in numbers, not so at all. In fact I think there might have been more of you there than at the previous month’s start-up competition.
Basically I banged on about how great Agile Development was, how it changed my life, made Esendex what it is today, cured swine flu, etc. Then fortunately the discussion started and I really enjoyed it.
Nigel Ainscoe helped out by providing a Scrum perspective counter point to my Extreme Programming musings. Nigel, can you add some links to this post.
Lot’s of you chipped in with experiences, concerns and issues you were facing getting agile adopted in your environment.
A few of you seemed convinced that it was just RAD by a different name so I can’t have been explaining it clearly.
What do you think? Useful? Are you planning to implement it? Can anyone share any case-studies with the group that those needing to convince management can use to help their case?
Also, what shall we talk about next month on the 14th July?
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The Third Web 2.0 Surgery is being held at Cape, Nottingham on Thursday 18th June 2009 from 6:30pm.
Web 2.0 Surgery is an informal event where you can get answers on internet related topics from a group of experts. This event is aimed at small and medium sized companies and organisations, as well as individuals, who use the Internet to operate their business but have questions on how to effectively use the wealth of Web 2.0 tools and services available.
At the previous event, the following topics were discussed by experts and attendees:
Ecommerce, PCI compliance, terms of use and privacy policies, upgrading from WordPress 2.0 to 2.7, rich media content for mobile retail, ASP/PHP/Python, online video content and delivery, Tweet bubbles, personal branding and video streamed conversation.
For more information on the previous event please read the summary.
If you would like to discuss any web related topics affecting you or your business with a group of experts, please join us at the next Web 2.0 Surgery.
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