(Proposer Notes: Whilst it's apparant that IT Operations as a field lacks diversity in many ways discussion was intentionally limited to gender. Further it's my experience that working for an employer who is explicitly targeting greater diversity, the ops end of the IT scale still suffers from being a white, male monoculture.)
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Initial mention of groups that already exist such as the Articulate Network, Girl Geek Dinners, Women in Technology, Black Girls Code etc.
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Mention of the Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences stuff.
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Mention of Etsy's video and experience of sponsoring their hacker school (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/etsy-cto-prioritizing-diversity-in-our-hiring-fielded-better-women-and-men/272969/)
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Discussion that part of the probl