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Gr8Ladies Mission

Friday, on   twitter , it became evident that some people may not understand the mission of   Gr8Ladies .   I don't mean to call out this particular individual,  but as he was not the first person to raise this question and I'm sure he won't be the last, I felt it was a good time to start talking about it.  To begin,   Gr8Ladies   is an open organization.  Anyone who supports women in the Gr8 ( Groovy ,   Grails ,   Gradle ,   Griffon , etc) community is welcome to attend events.  In fact, I will argue, we can't achieve our goals without men being part of the discussion. I started Gr8Ladies last year after a series of events.  When I met Gr8Ladies co-founder Allison at our local Groovy users group,   GroovyMN , last summer I’m pretty sure my first words were something to do with my relief that I found another woman at a user group who wasn’t a recruiter!  Before I moved to Minnesota (and switched to Groovy)...