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When we started Nerd Girl Army it was to promote ideas just like this. Rather than sit around and complain about the gender imbalance in IT the GDI group are taking a stance!

If you've never learnt to code, and would like to do so in a female learning friendly environment then sign up for the October coding workshops for GDI.

They'll be covering basic web design and style sheets and you'll have a chance to show off your work at the end of the workshops. This is a particularly good opportunity if you've got a design background and want to move more into web technologies and multimedia.

Sponsored by our good friends over at Girl Geek Dinners and Google this is a professional fun and friendly environment to learn.

You can find more information on http://girldevelopit.com/sydney.html 

In what was possibly the craziest 24 hours in Australian politics *ever* the existing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was deposed and replaced by his deputy, Julia Gillard.

This gives Julia the historic honour of being the first female Prime Minister of Australia. But it's a tough election, her party has lost a lot of favour and everyone is looking to Julia to keep the power.

So Julia, if you want to keep the Nerd Girl vote have a think about the following:

• Get on Twitter; if there was one thing that Krudd had down with the nerd girls is that he had a twitter and he was honest about how he used it. Lift your social media profile lady! If you Trend globally, you should really have an account. 
• Sack Conroy; the man is outdated, unpopular and a hindrance to any real future Australia has as a digital force
• Drop the "clean feed" filter; listen to the feedback you're getting from the populace and look at alternatives. If you need to keep the 'family' vote then look at the filter client software the last government released. 
• Give us an adult game rating; this community is proof enough that a lot of gamers are adults, and want to see adult content. We have classifications for adult TV shows, movies and web content so why are games any different?
• Continue with the National Broadband Network plans - but be sensible and have some oversight. Be realistic about where satellite and wifi are required, Australia has remote communities where wireline will never reach ROI. The last thing you want is for this program to take on the sort of criticism that the Education Revoluion did. 
• Keep funding and encouraging technology such as iView on the ABC, multicast digital channels and all the other great things that keep Australia in line with the best first world countries and their technology!
• We love that you're a secular woman in a committed non marriage relationship; so maybe represent the other 'non standard' families. Give us same sex marriage, better adoption laws for single women and equal rights across the board. 

Fantastic Melbourne artist Robin Fox, will be making an appearance at Superdeluxe@Artspace (part of the Biennale of Sydney 2010) in this July. 

Fox's work is an amazing simulated synaesthetic or cross-modal experience of sound and sight that are intricately linked, and are performed live. 

Fox's previous work 'Backscatter' which is an audio-visual work for the cathode ray oscilloscope can be found on Youtube. 

To book tickets to this free event go to:

http://www.superdeluxe-artspace.com.au/performers/robin-fox/