I’m whined before about the dearth of female devel­op­ers in Perth. I was talk­ing about this with Port 80 reg­u­lar Megyn, so with her strangely demonic energy (I have no idea where else she could get it from!) she organ­ised a monthly lunch get-together for all the chicks we could think of to invite.

Dubbed “Web Women Wednes­day” (with slightly sus­pect gram­mar, I think), the first one was held last Wednes­day. Six of us got together for lunch and geek chat at the Coun­try Road cafe in Perth.

It was a lot of fun — and in a strange twist of a syn­chronic­ity, the six atten­dees each inde­pen­dently ordered the same meal as the per­son sit­ting oppo­site her. Freaky! The first meet­ing atten­dees were Megyn, Nat from Paper­cut, Tania from Mas­terpeace, Kim from the Dept of Pre­mier and Cab­i­net, Andrea from APIIX and of course myself. A good mix of design­ers, coders and in-betweeners.

I know there’s more of us out there, so next month will be a break­fast meet­ing in an effort to blend in with other sched­ules. So if you’re female, in Perth, are web-involved and I don’t know you, why is that? Come down and join a sen­si­ble geeky discussion!