On Friday night the University of Salford is being invaded by Girl Geeks. Manchester Geek Girl Dinners hosts it’s second event and this time Kerry and I will be going along to join in the fun.

Event details

When: 7:00 PM Friday, July 25, 2008

Where: University of Salford, University House, University of Salford,
Salford, England M5 4WT

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.

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!

The all important links: Manchester Girl Geek Dinner Event Website, Upcoming.org Event Page and there’s a facebook Event Page

This weekend Manchester’s Castlefield Arena will be host to the Nokia Skate Almighty music tour that’s already been a huge hit in London and Birmingham. The rolling begins this Friday 25th and ends Sunday 27th July. There’s a bunch of us from SilverWheels Skate Rink in Altrincham heading over to the Sunday evening sessions (more specifically 2000-2200). I’ll be taking the camera along to get some photographic evidence so keep your eye out for that.

There is a new PHP User Group in town PHP North West (PHPNW), some of you may remember the the old PHP Meetup in Manchester run by Dan Morris which later merged into GeekUp due to low interest. Since then there has been growth of User Groups that are more focused on a particular technology.

What is PHPNW?

PHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the North West.

First Meeting

The first PHPNW meeting is on this Thursday 17th July in Manchester, for full details visit the event page at Upcoming.

PHPNW links

• PHPNW Website
• PHPNW Google Group
• PHPNW on twitter
• PHPNW on Upcoming
• PHPNW on LinkedIn
• PHPNW on Facebook
• IRC: #phpnw (irc.freenode.net)