<div dir="ltr">Rule #1: When a girl comes through the doors, do NOT try to find her on social networking or dating sites! <div><br></div><div style>We had several girls run away because they got 5 people messaging them on okcupid after one visit. Ugh.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Philip Poten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip.poten@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.poten@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/17 David Powell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davepow16@gmail.com" target="_blank">davepow16@gmail.com</a>></span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">At Baltimore Hackerspace we have been 100% male until last month. We had the occasional Female come through the door but for whatever reason they never come back.</span></blockquote>
<div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I think I can help you there:</font></div><div class="im">
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<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If a hackerspace has one female and she wants more females in the hackerspace then she should start a campaign to find more females. It could be that she host a class about e-textiles or whatever it is females like to talk about.</blockquote>
</div><br></div>The onus is on the hacker space community to open up - but not as white knights, but as a community that continuously re-examines it's stereotypes.
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