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Girl Geek Dinner Event #4 – Hardware Geekery

jamanda — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:53:03 +0000

The fourth Girl Geek Dinner event in Auckland is being held at Microsoft House. There are no door sales for this event, please purchase tickets in advance from the website http://girlgeekdinners.co.nz.

The theme for this event will be Hardware Geekery and I’d like to invite you all to bring along a gadget or geeky piece of hardware that you think other people would get a kick out of. If you think it’s cool, other people probably will as well. We can show each other our cool gadgets and perhaps let people have a play with them.

There will also be a couple of speakers, just getting final confirmation sorted but it looks to be talks on OpenSource Media Centres and redesigning gaming consoles. In addition we’ll have another quiz – maybe just 2 or 3 rounds this time – hopefully with prizes if I can cajole a local company into parting with some goodies – if not then I’m sure we’ll find something fun for the winners to take home with them again.

As usual food and drink are included in the ticket price.

Tickets are available from the website: www.girlgeekdinners.co.nz and I will need to limit them to 50 because of the venue size, so first come, first served and no door sales.

More details will be posted on the website as and when I confirm them, such as menu, speakers etc…

To help with the quiz, perhaps everyone could send in one or two questions that they think should be included, that way everyone will know the answer to at least one or two questions.

Auckland Girl Geek Dinner Event

jamanda — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:54:17 +0000

On May 28th there is a Girl Geek Dinner event being held at Microsoft House down by the Viaduct Harbour. More details and tickets at www.girlgeekdinners.co.nz.

They are also looking for items for the goody bags and/or sponsorship for this event which is $250. In return for sponsorship your logo is displayed on the website and, if sponsored in time, on the posters advertising the event. If you are keen to help out then head to the website and get in touch with the organizers via the sponsorship page.

Living Room Events

Amanda — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:46:54 +0000

Auckland City Council are supporting a series of live performance events which will be coming to a public space near you throughout April, May and June 2008.

I stumbled upon one of these – Die Henkel Spur (the Henkel Way) – today on the way back from a meeting as I walked through St Patrick’s Square. Die Henkel Spur is a fantastic recreation of one of New Zealand’s first known musical troupes and it was a joy to come across this performance well underway in the middle of the afternoon.

The Living Room series has not been hugely publicised to date and is well worth checking out if you have the opportunity – I certainly recommend the great gusto of the Die Henkel Spur group!

Check out the full details of the Living Room series on Auckland City’s website.

Twitter ahoy!

Jo Hubris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:45:35 +0000

Have you ever wanted to tell people about something that’s going on RIGHT NOW in Auckland from your mobile phone? And at the same time receive updates to your phone from other people? Well, thanks to Twitter and the lovely Brenda from Wellington, we now have an Aucklandista twitterbot up and running! So if you haven’t already got a twitter account, get one, and sign up to follow it. Once the bot is following you back, you can update the bot by prefixing any twitter messages with 09.You can use the bot to talk about whatever kind of Auckland events that you like. Some suggestions for the kinds of messages you might like to send out include:

09 The motorway is jampacked today because of a crash. Go a different way.
09 There’s someone giving out ice creams in Aotea Square
09 There’s an awesome gig on tonight at the King’s Arms
09 OMG Joss Whedon is at Burger King Queen Street right now.

Etc. Please feel free to ask any questions and we hope you enjoy the bot.