I realised I hadn’t blogged about this yet, and it is one of the highlights of my month! At CeBIT I finally met up with Sara Falamaki who I’d spoke to before but not met, and Myrto Zehnder who works with Gernot at NICTA. The three of us joined about 20 other people who went for beers after CeBIT and we commented that it was lovely to meet other technical women and we should do it regularly. Unfortunately many of the “women IT” groups in Australia are run by PR, HR and small business owner women, and thus being a technical female there you feel quite left out and thus don’t return. Anyway, so last month we got the word out to some people we knew and had about a dozen women come along for “coffee n cake” 🙂 Just a fun, informal and social event to catch up with some other cool technical women and it was fun to find other technical women in Sydney doing cool things. I can only liken it to being the only kid into Metallica at school and then attending a Metallica concert. It was great! All of those ladies then came along to SLUG and enjoyed it, and so I think it was a big success!
So we are doing it again this month, and have a website with all the details. It is of course mentioned on the SLUG events and mailing list, and if anyone knows technical chicks who are into FOSS, let them know about it! 🙂