Sarah Mei, Sarah Allen, and a whole lot of other folks are working to increase the number of female Ruby developers in the San Francisco area. Part of that initiative is a series of outreach workshops for women who want to learn Ruby on Rails.
These workshops are free, and men are welcome to attend as the +1 of a woman who’s taking the class. So gentlemen — we know you’ve got a woman in your life who you’ve always thought would make a great programmer. Convince her to sign up and you can come along too!
This is part of the RailsBridge Open Workshop project.
More questions about these events? See our frequently-asked questions list.
Writeups:
- General
- June 2009 SF workshop
- August 2009 SF workshop
- September 2009 SF Workshop
- October 2009 SF Workshop
- May 2010
[...] achieved by organizing programming workshops targeted to women –- The group’s founders Sarah Mei and Sarah Allen increased the percentage of women in the SF Ruby Meetup group from 3% to 18% in just one [...]
What are some examples of successful gender diversity initiatives?…
The RailsBridge Outreach Workshops (teaching web application development to women) succeeded in changing the gender ration at San Francisco Ruby Meetups from 2% to 18% in its first year. Read more about it here: http://workshops.railsbridge.org/about/...