You know that you are having a skewed sense of priorities when work keeps you so busy that you do not have the time to write about the latest Meet-ups of the EU Girl Geeks. And there’s been quite a few, with new faces every time, a nice sense of sharing experience and lots of laughter and ladies that seem to have meteoric careers all over the place (you know who you are ). So to supress my feeling of guilt, here’s a quick write...

 Our little club is starting to become famous! For the 5th edition of our EU Girl Geek meetups, this time we were the special guests of the Britcham Autumn cocktail. How did that happen? There was a fair number of us attending the fabulous #140conf on 16 September. That’s where we met @nandosgirl, an EU Girl Geek working at the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. She managed to get us all invited to Britcham’s...

The nice thing about EU Girl Geek events is the fact that they are now starting to feel comfortable (as in “usual”) whilst still being totally different every time. So let’s do the same for this post and rather than one person writing it, I am asking all the EU girl geeks present at Cook & Book at our 4th edition to use the comments zone to give their impressions, suggestions, jokes (no lingerie jokes admitted any...

Cook & Book map 18:30, 1 place du Temps Libre…a nice relaxing location with a street name that fits perfectly. I (linotherhino) had never gone to Cook & Book and must admit it is truly a wet dream for book afficionados. All languages, all styles, just an endless walk into book paradise. I thought I arrived first and was kind of wandering around to see if anyone else was there until I spot Letzi (letzi83) at a table...

The second EU Girl Geek meet up took place at lunch time at Coco’s on Place Luxembourg. We were already a serious crowd, with more than a dozen participants and the “special guest appearance” of Clo Willaerts, aka @bnox, the lady behind the Brussels Girl Geek Dinners. Our lunch having ended at 3 pm, we decided that dinners could be more appropriate going forward if we wanted to avoid transforming our EU Girl Geek...

From Flickr (c) stanbxl The first EU Girl Geek meet up was launched in parallel to the Gender Balanced Commission discussions quite a few of us had on Twitter and took place at lunch time at Coco’s on Place Luxembourg. Participants included Laurence (europasionaria), Catherine (kattebel), Alia (eurocentrique), Letizia (letzi83), myself (linotherhino) and….Jon Worth who was feeling really in touch with his feminine side that...