It was a last minute scramble, but as I will be in Amsterdam for the SDN conference next month, the Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinners managed to schedule a meeting for my last night there.
I won't be doing the same talk that I am doing the next night at the London Girl Geek Dinner event.
In Amsterdam the talk will be titled:
"Staying dry while drinking from the technology firehose"
Date: Wednesday, 8 October, 2008
Time: 7-11 PM
Location: Flexbar (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)
Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)
The Flexbar is located on the Westergasfabriek terrain.
Abstract: Julie Lerman has been programming for over 20 years, with the glorious beginnings of a single BASIC computer class while acquiring a degree in Russian history. At her first job (nothing to do with history) the only computer in a company of over 1000 people quickly ended up on her desk. Since then she has used about 10 programming languages, but it took 13 years before she attended her first programming class. Julie will talk to the Amsterdam Girl Geeks about the challenge of trying to remain sane while keeping up with constantly changing technology and some of the extra challenges that being a girl geek added along the way.
I had a good laugh when I calculated the cost of the meeting (buffet excluding drinks, mind you) into US$.
