I've just seen yet another "female programmer group" post, and to be honest, I wonder how people would feel about starting a "male only" programmer social group.
If that was your only reason for creating the group, I have a feeling the group would end being more about social issues then about programming. :)
Personally, one of the things I love about most topic/hobby groups in America is how the bring people together that otherwise would not be - and most of the social classes and identity drops away.
I live in the South where shooting sports and car racing are popular. You can have a Bank of America executive and a plumber discussing competive shooting techniques and the relationship between them is entirely based on their shooting skills. Wealth, ancestry, skin color, doesn't matter a bit.
If someone wants to make any kind of exclusive topic group, they are welcome to. But it almost always devolve into meta meta politics. People who really care about the craft or sport will end up somewhere else.
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I live in the South where shooting sports and car racing are popular. You can have a Bank of America executive and a plumber discussing competive shooting techniques and the relationship between them is entirely based on their shooting skills. Wealth, ancestry, skin color, doesn't matter a bit.
If someone wants to make any kind of exclusive topic group, they are welcome to. But it almost always devolve into meta meta politics. People who really care about the craft or sport will end up somewhere else.