Girl Geek Dinners Sydney were started in 2008 by Damana Madden who first learned about Girl Geek Dinners from Hugh Macleod’s blog and thought it was a cool idea. She especially liked the attendance rule:
If you are male and wish to attend this event you must bring a female with you or be brought by a female. NO FEMALE, NO ENTRY!!!! Sorry Guys! (We need to keep the numbers balanced!) And ladies, one date only please!
As she noted: “What a clever way to create a different distribution of gender than your typical technology-related meetup.”
ThoughtWorks was having internal discussions about supporting diversity in the community and remembering Girl Geek Dinners, Damana proposed initiating something similar here in Sydney. And thus Girl Geek Dinners Sydney was born.
Here’s the video that Sarah made for us to help describe what Girl Geek Dinners is as well as provide advice for how to start one.
There’s lots more background on this over at Girl Geek Dinners.
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