Daily Archives: June 12, 2009

Volunteer Management: How the Moonwalk gets it right

Posted on by Kate Ho

I was driving into Edinburgh today and spotted someone training for the Moonwalk – the lady was the first person this year I saw training for the walk, and prompted me to write this post.

For people that have never heard of the Moonwalk, here’s the basic idea: take 10,000 men and women, get them to walk a full marathon (26.2 miles) or the half marathon (13.1 miles) in a brightly decorated bra to raise money for breast cancer. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you venture out in town on 20th June 2009 (unfortunately the official route cannot be publicised for Health and Safety reasons – but it starts at Inverleith Park – well worth heading along to see!).

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Lovelace Colloquium 2009

Posted on by Kate Ho

‘ve just got back from the Lovelace Colloquium held at Leeds University organised by Hannah Dee. The colloquium is an event for all computing students within the UK and included a series of talks from Gillain Arnold (IBM), Cornelia Boldyreff (Lincoln University), Julie Greensmith a.k.a. Dr Thrill (Nottingham), Eileen Brown (Microsoft) and Karen Groenink (Google). Finally it was topped off with a panel session which included Vicky Greaves from Google (who initially told Hannah about the Edinburgh University Hoppers, and asked me to help out). I also got a chance to (finally) meet both Christine Burns (Just Plain Sense) and Maggie Smith (womenintechnology.co.uk) – two people that I’ve heard a lot about but yet meet. It was also great to see Allan Pollard – the current President of the BCS to be present for the entire day.

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Launching Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinner

Posted on by Kate Ho

After the fantastic success of the Scotland Girl Geeks Dinner launch in Dundee, we are proud to announce the launch of Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinners!

Details are listed below. But be quick – we’re expecting the event to be a fantastic night!

Edinburgh Girl Geek Launch Night

14th May 2009, 7pm – 10pm, Mini-Forum 2, Informatics Forum, 10

Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Cost – £10 including hot buffet and soft drinks

Girl Geeks Dinners has arrived in Edinburgh! Come to our launch night, where we hope to gather the region’s brightest female computer scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and techies for good food and good company. The evening will be chilled, friendly and informal. We hope to attract students, as well as professionals across the Lothians.

There will be 2 speakers on the night – Danielle Wilde (bio below) and another TBC. But there will be plenty of time available to mingle and chat throughout the evening. We hope you can join us in the first ever

Edinburgh GGD!

Tickets are limited (40 available), so please book soon to avoid disappointment. Tickets available at:

https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=114

Confirmed Speaker:

Danielle Wilde is an artist and design researcher at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design (Melbourne, Australia) and the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering (Belmont, near Geelong). She is engaged in practice-based doctoral research, at the nexus of performance, fashion, fine art, critical (technology) and interaction design. Her projects include highly visible, extended and extending interfaces in addition to “invisible”, embedded and distributed systems, which allow the wearer to actuate and control changes in sound, colour, light, shape and form. She is currently travelling through Europe on a series of visiting fellowships, working in collaboration with the Open University’s Pervasive Interacti