Last night’s very entertaining Brussels Girl Geek Dinner at One Agency‘s swank offices in Drongen had a theme: smart companions. Everyone was invited to bring her favourite electronic toy – which resulted in a herd of Nabaztags, one very cute Pleo, and a few other unidentified moving objects.
There was even a presentation by Melanie Chamaah from Kysoh, who talked about smart companions in general and the Tux Droid in particular. There was a spectacular attack of demo syndrom, unfortunately, since the Tux Droid broke his wing right at the start of the presentation, resulting in a slightly sinister machine gun noise (I’d seen the Tux in action before, since Kris brought his to a Barcamp, if i remember correctly).
Imke‘s and Edzimbi‘s Nabaztags got married, and then we got a goodie bag containing, amongst other things, err, a vibrating battery-powered companion. A pink flowery one.
Most of all, it was nice to have a chat with Karen, Nadia, Caroline, Paul, Pascal, Brit, Bart, Bart, the lama, Baudouin, Yves, and I may forget others. Good edition.
Still wondering why a specific “girl”-geekdinner is really necessary, if you are inviting some of the normal geekdinner attendees anyway …
And where are the girl geeks when there is a “regular” geekdinner (non-gender specific)? Do they fear the male geeks … ?
I would say ask Clo.
But if i had to guess, i would say:
1. girl geeks are more rarefied and so it has an added value to put them together
2. it’s not exactly pure geeky but rather a mix of people being professionally interested in technology and the web. Not your average kernel hackers, which is more the feel of the “regular” geekdinners.