2024-04-15 UTC
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[Joe_Crawford] There's precent for hobbyist groups to inspire, help and empower. I think of the Homebrew Computer Club in the Bay Area in the 1970s-1980s. WebGrrls is the earliest example I can think of for women-focused events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliza_Sherman#Webgrrls - in San Diego we had a chapter of that, which branched off into other orgs: Techniquelle and digitElle, lost to history, alas. But 20 years later Women Who Code