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Encouraging "les auteurs" - we have a winner

Developer Day voting is open and there are a large number of sessions you can choose from. A while back I threw out a challenge to the girl geek community to try to encourage more female speakers and we ended up with three potential speakers from the fairer sex, one from an MVP, Bev Hatchard who we persuaded to speak at DDD Scotland and is now bitten by the presenting bug, one from Chris Hart on virtual worlds and a bunch of submissions from Helen Emerson. Now the competition was going to end when voting ended; but as Bev...

posted @ Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:40 AM | Feedback (0)

Are you a girl? Are you a girl that knows .net?

As a way of attempting to encourage more women to submit sessions for DDD7 I decided that bribery a prize might help. All you need to do is submit a session, and present it if it’s selected and you could win a 1 year MSDN Team Suite subscription, worth just over £8500. Full details are on the London Girl Geek Dinners web site. (If none of your sessions are selected by the attendees I shall be drawing a name from the hat). So what are you waiting for? Think of a session; submit it. And while you’re at it talk...

posted @ Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:05 AM | Feedback (0)