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Auckland
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An event is being planned for Thursday 3rd June. The theme will be
gadgets. Various companies are currently being approached to see if
we can borrow cool new gadgets to play with for the evening. If you
have any gadgets you'd like to share, please get in touch with
amanda.jackson@fronde.com.

Canterbury
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Canterbury Geek Girl Dinners will be held again soon with plans afoot
to hold a dinner over in the west of Christchurch. They'll be saying
Haere Ra to co-founder Anchen le Roux who is returning to South Africa
for a year. The Canterbury group are in the process of reorganising
their committee.

Canterbury has an innovative IT industry, so the group are looking at
ways of enhancing networks between women in IT and women who love
technologies in the Canterbury region through fun, support, and
recognition of the great work being done.

Tauranga
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http://tauranga.girlgeekdinners.co.nz/
The last event in Tauranga was on the 24th Feb and was a great
success.

The next dinner will be on 19th May at No.1 The Strand (which is now
the permanent venue - great food/service and no hireage fee yay!).
Topics for the May dinner are social networking from Fran Bailey at
Village PR, and an insight into a local IT company Vision Software and
one of their staff members, Kate Le Petit.

Wellington

Tonight i defend my claim to a sparkly pink tiara at Bloggers Predict 2010
Thursday 28 January 2010
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce, level 28, The Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street

The 2010 lineup
Brenda Wallace (@br3nda) Current tiara-holder, Brenda was UP Visionary of the year for 2009, can she defend her title in 2010? The Capital City’s geek girl extraordinaire and queen bee of the software community, Brenda is to mobile technology and open source what honey is to brown bread, she makes it taste better! Brenda blogs on Coffee.geek.nz about coffee, gadgets, opensource, wellington, new zealand, music, and above all things: freedom.
Philip Fierlinger (@skyrize) From Silicon Valley to Silicon Welly, Philip’s web design expertise and has been eagerly sought after by online businesses and conference-goers alike. Currently design chief at Xero, blogger at Turntable Media Philip’s passion for web usability also led him to establish his own consultancy.
Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) Geekzone head honcho and microblogging enthusiast. If there’s a new gadget being launched you can be sure Mauricio has an opinion about it. Been renovating his kitchen for last 6 months and has forgotten how to cook, however is on first name basis with all the (good) cafe owners in town. Possibly Wellington’s most avid “Tweeter”.