This is short notice, but a great networking opportunity for "girl geeks" in Denver/Boulder. SUN Microsystems is hosting a Girl Geek Dinner on March 5 at 6pm (yes, that's tomorrow.) It's free and over 60 fabulous girl geeks have already signed up.

Here's the announcement:

"The first Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner will be held the evening of Thursday, March
5th, at Sun's conference center in Building One of the Sun campus at 500 Eldorado Blvd.,
Broomfield CO 80021. Food and drink will be provided; this event is free of charge, and begins at 6 pm.

Please indicate your attendance on the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133159715320 or (if you aren't on Facebook and don't want to be) on the wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/cofrggd/Home , or simply RSVP to me, Deirdré Straughan, deirdre.straughan [at] sun.com

What's a Girl Geek Dinner?
Girl Geek Dinners were founded in London in 2005 by Sarah Blow, who got tired of being
vastly outnumbered by men at tech events. You can hear her story here:
http://girlgeekdinners.com/about-us-2/ .

Since then, the idea has spread worldwide (check the right sidebar on http://girlgeekdinners.com/ for a full list of locations).

A Girl Geek Dinner is an event for women in technology, however they choose to
define/identify themselves (from scientists to programmers to bloggers). Attendees are only
women, but any woman attending may, if she chooses, invite one and ONLY one male guest.
This means that the ratio of women to men is always at least 50:50 – a far cry from the
usually 90:10 men:women ratio we're accustomed to at tech events. And that's a nice change
for tech women. If you haven't yet experienced a GGD, you'll be amazed at how different the
atmosphere is, and how much sheer fun there is in just hanging out with other "geeky girls".

There's no age limit for being a girl geek. If you have a daughter or other budding technogrrl
who might be interested and inspired by seeing some of the diverse careers of women in
technology, feel free to bring her along.

The agenda for this GGD includes a presentation by Sun's Linda Skrocki and Deirdré
Straughan on Social Networking, New Media, and the Enterprise.

But there will also be plenty of time to just meet and mingle, and make plans for future GGDs
(Sun does not "own" this event, nor do we want to – we welcome assistance, participation,
and sponsorship, and/or suggestions about how to find any of those things)."

So what are you waiting for? I'll be there, with my Flip video camcorder, of course, connecting with and interviewing fellow girl geeks.  Let me know if you'll be attending or say hi at the event.

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