Geek Girls Dinner @ Yahoo!7
June 23rd, 2009 Filed in: Techy Stuff,Working at Yahoo!7 2 comments
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Last week Yahoo!7 hosted Geek Girls Dinner in its Sydney office. With over a hundred geek girls and their guests coming from across different companies the event was a huge success!
It was yet another opportunity for we Yahoo!7 Engineers and the local geeks to mingle and to share the huge knowledge base.
The event started with a welcome speech by Neil Wilkinson, Technical Director, Yahoo!7. He welcomed the geeks and, I should say, inaugurated the ceremony officially.
Allan Shone and I, who are both engineers here at Yahoo!7, spoke about Yahoo Query Language (YQL). I did the presentation introducing YQL to the geeks, showing its awesomeness using examples. Allan showed a working demo of his mini project and got the wows from the crowd! 
Here is the slidecast for this presentation.
The lightning talks were very cool with Georgi Knox talking about “Gaming”, Candace Wong about “Automated User Interface Testing”, Jenny Gordon about “Configuring a Cisco Router” and lastly Thomas Given-Wilson gave a very amusing talk about “Recovering from Linux”.
The evening went on in an exciting and geeky fashion. There was plenty of food, drinks and gaming on Guitar Hero and Foos. Yeah it’s not a Yahoo! event without Foos!
A big applause should be given to my fellow Yahoos, Karen Williams, Jay Buasri and last but not the least, Claudia Jayne Mikaelian, who organised the event and made sure all the strings pulled together on the night.
Looking forward to the YOS session on Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) in July.
Pratibha Gannavarapu
Technical Yahoo!
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