"Again, I realize that's probably not you, but given that these kinds of people exist, why would someone take a chance, especially considering how little work y

"Again, I realize that's probably not you, but given that these kinds of people exist, why would someone take a chance, especially considering how little work you've put into proving your intrinsic motivation?" I agree, people are shitty. For me, I can't fake passion. I got back from OSCON, met unbelievable engineers that were NOT white and male. So I will admit there is a motivation, I want to work with the best and still live in my hometown of Los Angeles. "Thanks for accepting my knee jerk reaction; I expected you to (rightfully) take more offense from it." You are welcome, while I don't have to agree with you, I still must give you the same respect you have given me. "I don't think women in tech care for a tweet (it seems impersonal and empty to me), but I could be wrong. Having your twitter handle certainly allows people to gauge how serious you are on the whole about your views though, so I appreciate your openness with it." - Sorry but you are wrong. I met plenty of Women passionate about technology at OSCON last week that are looking for help. This isn't a publicity stunt, this is how I feel and I am going to fight for it using the help of the Open Source community. "I'll submit a pull request to that end when I get a chance, thanks." Please do! Make it your own. Just promote diversity that is all I am asking. "You're clearly trying to crowdsource this, but you're not scaffolding enough. Like you said, you're not sitting on your ass wondering what you can do; so what are you doing?" - Answering every one of your questions ;)