Where are all the TorCamp men?
Last night, we had the first Toronto Girl Geek dinner, which drew about 40 people with only one brave male soul amongst us. The rules of attending a Girl Geek dinner are simple: if you are male, you must bring a female with you or be brought by a female. You don’t have to be invited. You don’t have to be a girl. You don’t even have to be a geek.
One of the questions that came up was how to get more women integrated into the Toronto tech community, and I suggested that the *Camp events were a great place to start: they’re more casual, it’s easy to gain some experience and confidence with public speaking by heading up a session, and the male attendees are not the usual chest-beating alpha males that you find at some technology events. How disappointing, as I looked around the room, to realize that not a single TorCamp man was in attendance to show his support for women in the Toronto tech community.
The next dinner is planned for September 19th, hope to see more of you then.
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Damn I would have loved to have made it (sadly for me Wednesday was an impossibility). Glad to here it was a success! I’ll see you in September! (if I can find an escort that is)
Tom, I’m sure that there are many women who are attending who you know and would be happy to escort you.