[57north-discuss] Collaboration between 57North and Girl Geek Scotland

[Scharlau, Dr Bruce A.]

On 25/05/2014 14:48, "Iain R. Learmonth" <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:

>On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 02:36:59PM +0100, Rowan Evenstar wrote:
>> Have you had experience with this group before ? I have (I even ended up
>> in the paper with them) It's mainly older women in business that have IT
>> in there title and imo are not even close to geeky :( infact they made
>> jokes about geeks that really got my back up. I gave up going. I'm not
>> middle management in a suit. Good to reach out too, but best to know
>>your
>> audience and saying hacking like that is likely to scare them off.
>
>That's a shame, although maybe it was just the people running it in
>Aberdeen. The Edinburgh group does look to be doing good things. I guess
>if
>the word hacking scares them off, we won't hear back from them but we also
>won't have lost out.

The Edinburgh group are more active, younger and geekier as they are part
of the start up scene there, whereas Aberdeen ones as Rowan notes are
older professionals in IT as that¹s what we have here at the moment. Let
me know if you want to get in touch with Edinburgh folks. I¹m friends with
Morna Simpson who founded GirlGeeks and also Victoria Thomas, who¹s taken
over running it for now.

>
>> Be interesting to see where it goes. And yeah they haven't been active
>> much in a while.
>
>My main reason for reaching out to these groups is to ensure we're not
>duplicating effort and/or stepping on any toes. If, as you say, they were
>making jokes about geeks that weren't cool, it sounds like they may have
>actually been doing more harm than good. Maybe there are new volunteers to
>run events that would make a better go at it.
>
>Iain.
>
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