Oxford Girl Geek Dinners invite you to join the first Oxford based meet-up, the pre-launch of local series of events dedicated to networking and discussions about women in technology. We hope to encourage all the local Girl Geeks in attending our events, so please spread the word about us to your friends!

We welcome women currently working in technology, but also interested in the topic. We warmly welcome Boy Geeks too, and to ensure that our vision of inviting more women to this meetup is maintained we are asking Boy Geeks to arrive with a Girl Geek - it's a rule we need to keep globally, so please follow it.

About this event:

The pre-launch event is very informal. We are meeting at the Cafe Coco Restaurant to network and discuss the basics of our future events, as well as the main launch. So bring your good mood and ideas and join us!

We have a limited amount of tickets, so if you do not manage to get hold of one, please contact us on Twitter!

About Girl Geek Dinners:

'The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside.
After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in depth. It’s not at all about being better than others, or about gender, race, religion or anything else. Those things just detract from the real fun stuff, the technology, the innovation and the spread of new ideas.
So what did this geeky girl do to change the world of geeks and girl geeks everywhere... well she got in touch with a few well known bloggers, posted online about her idea of getting geeks to educate one another over dinner and then arranged the first girl geek dinner event with a little help from her friends. The first event had 35 people at it all from London and the surrounding area, shortly after people started to hear about the events and companies started sponsoring them to cover the food and drinks cost.
Then they started popping up in other UK cities as she trained others up in how to run the events, spreading the formula for them... so they then started popping up in Europe... and shortly after that over in Canada... Now they are starting to pop up in New Zealand and Australia. Who knows where will be next'

Sarah Blow, Girl Geek Dinners Founder

For more information go to the main blog.

You can also find our local blog and Twitter account.

See you on Wednesday!