You're conflating the need for diversity with throwing a few token minority people at the end of a lineup. This was addressed in the post: > But note that Josh

You're conflating the need for diversity with throwing a few token minority people at the end of a lineup. This was addressed in the post: > But note that Josh didn’t say “I contacted all the female developers I knew”. Instead, Josh reached out to the existing community networks that RailsBridge and DevChix had created. You don’t have to have a complete mental Rolodex of the Ruby community to make diversity happen. You just have to get the ball rolling, and lean on the community. Obviously BritRuby didn't reach out to these types of groups, because as the OP found out, most of them didn't even know it existed.