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Wednesday 2nd March: March Leith Geekup, 1pm at The Constitution
Lots of geeks work in Leith .. let’s have lunch at the http://www.constitutionbar.com/ (You can pre-order food for faster service). See who’s going and sign up via the Bloop event page!
Wednesday 2nd March: Refresh Edinburgh, 6:30pm at Holyrood 9A
Refresh Edinburgh is a community of web developers and designers interested in cutting-edge web technologies. We want to gather great minds, share our knowledge, promote local talent, and be more than we think we can be. We also want to drink and talk geek. Several RSVPs on Bloop – feel free to join in!
That’s at least 5 cupcakes by my count… you know we love our celebrations 😉
Thursday 3rd March: Girl Geeks Edinburgh Dinner, 6pm at Microsoft Office, 2-4 Waterloo Place
We are a community for women and girls interested in technology, creativity and computing. Dinners attract women from diverse careers and include fine artists, designers, theorists, political activists, software and hardware specialists and business experts. This event’s speakers are pretty awesome with Jane Ballantine, founder and CEO of Limitless Learning Limited, and Nina Sundberg, Director of the Windows Client Business for the UK. A few tickets still left surprisingly, and you can get your hands on one for £12 (students with £6 rebate ) including dinner.
Thursday 3rd March: UX Bookclub, 6:30pm at Precedent office, 63A George Street
Edinburgh UX Bookclub meets every other month to discuss a book that we’ve chosen to read together. We are a varied bunch, but all interested in learning more about User Experience. Come along to the first Edinburgh UX Bookclub where we’ll be talking about ‘Undercover User Experience Design’. Once you catch the user experience bug, the world changes. Doors open the wrong way, websites don’t work, and companies don’t seem to care. All welcome!
Friday 4th March: Edinburgh Coffee Morning, 8am at Centotre
Every Friday morning, Edinburgh’s creative early risers meet at 8am for breakie, and a chance to share ideas and Web 2.0 finds. Join in and brighten up your morning before a productive day.
Just in case you haven’t been invited but want to be, here’s the scoop! … This is not an open event and attendance is by invitation only and restricted to University of Edinburgh staff or students who are actively running or are about to start up a high growth technology business. If you think you are eligible and would like to attend, please email Rebecca.difford [at] ed.ac.uk. The New Ventures Support Group is a group is open to both staff and students from the University of Edinburgh that are currently running or about to start a high-growth or technology business. The main objective is to create a forum for entrepreneurs to support each other and offer peer to peer encouragement and share learning.
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Upcoming events
7th March, Mobile Apps Group + Mobile Monday Edinburgh
9th March, KTN Creative Workshop at InSpace
9th March, Edinburgh Techmeetup
24th March, SIE Student Enterprise Summit 2011, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
8th April, Scottish Ruby Conference
18-19 May, Engage Invest Exploit 2011 (28th Feb is last day for exhibitor applications)
StartupCafe 
Half birthday drinks anyone?
Half pints only.