<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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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 class="gmail_quote"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I think I can help you there:</font></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<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>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.