[backstage] Event: Manchester Girl Geek Dinner #2 - 7:00 PM Friday, July 25, 2008
Hi all, I wanted to let you know that the second Manchester Girl Geek Dinner is taking place this Friday. Come along if you can and bring your partners. -- Manchester Girl Geek Dinner #2 When: 7:00 PM Friday, July 25, 2008 Where: University of Salford, University House, University of Salford, Salford, England M5 4WT Who can attend: Girl Geeks! A lady who has an interest, or is involved in the Science, Engineering and Technology industries. Blokes can come too, but you need an invite from a Geek Girl! Cost: Around £15 (includes 3 course meal, coffee and drinks) What: For those who haven't been before, it's dinner, wine, talks from inspirational women, networking and discussions afterwards. Currently two talks planned, if you want to get involved and speak about women in engineering, science and technology, please do get in touch. The talks: Gemma Cameron - How to get young people interested in Geekery! Rachael Hoyle - winner of the IET's Dyson Young Woman Apprentice of Year Award. Rachael will be delivering an extremely interesting talk around the stigma of women in engineering. This will cover how ethics and equality are the dominant factors in employment, and whether this is damaging the industry, rather than encouraging diversity. Links: http://www.manchestergirlgeekdinners.co.uk/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/859931/ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=22778411401 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0
On 5 Mar 2008, at 13:21, Mr I Forrester wrote: I don't believe there will be, but ability.net have said they want to do more of them depending on this event. Maybe even even up north Tim. I for one am very really pleased to see an event dedicated to this topic, congratulations to AbilityNet and all involved. It's about time we had some focus on this topic, for years the 'bigger' events only ever have one or two sessions on accessibility - and they are usually only a top level view on the issues, which many of us have herd over and over. I agree the costs are a little off putting for smaller outfits who will need to find accommodation, travel and give up a day's worth of income. I would defiantly consider attending of my own back if this came up North, unless I can convince my employer to send me to London. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC launches a Homepage that validates!!!
On 2 Feb 2007, at 11:15, Brian Butterworth wrote: If you have a widescreen TV and you havn't gone into the menus to set the output format to 16:9 then everyone is simply going to look fat and you're missing the pictures. What was the point of buying a widescreen TV if you don't actually use it? Please email me back if you need any more help. I'm not quite sure you understood my point. I'm not missing any pictures I was pointing out how small the clock is on the News24 compared to how it was 2 weeks ago. But for the record my TV is set to 16:9. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] PHP Code for weather conditions
On 1 Nov 2006, at 20:35, Laurence Samuels wrote: This sharing of code is all well and good. I support it. But sending codes along on this email address may obscure some other messages that are not about code. Isnt it possible to have a central place where codes could be put and a forum started there where people can discuss about the arcana of the code texts? An official Backstage wiki would be perfect, I know there was discussions of such last year when Ben was around but not sure how far that got - there was: http://www.backstagewiki.co.uk/ but doesn't appear to resolve anywhere now. I think a simple blog(unofficial unless the Backstage team would be able to provide something) would suit your above suggestion with open registration for authors to post their code - I'm happy to provide such resource if it would be helpful? Andrew - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
