Comments for RailsBridge Open Workshops

Comment on Women Teaching Women Technology: Three Trailblazing Organizations by Amberlee

Amberlee — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:16:38 +0000

I read your post and wisehd I was good enough to write it

Comment on Women Teaching Women Technology: Three Trailblazing Organizations by Amy

Amy — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:49:32 +0000

Hey guys, those sound like wonderful programs.

Comment on Women Teaching Women Technology: Three Trailblazing Organizations by mia

mia — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:16:20 +0000

I am girl, and I am a developer. 99.9% of guys developers is not exactly a macho material, they are mostly shy, sweet and terrified of woman more than we are. But I agree there is a little prejudice when they don’t know what you made of. I think 52% leave because software is a hard hard job, and you either have to totally love it or you’ll find your self totally miserable. Kudos Girls!

Comment on 2011 workshop kick-off by Agus @ Ruby on Rails

Agus @ Ruby on Rails — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:03:56 +0000

anybody know when this workshops starting again at 2012?

Comment on Hungry Academy: get paid to learn Ruby/Rails by become a working developer in 5 months? | the evolving ultrasaurus

become a working developer in 5 months? | the evolving ultrasaurus — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:54:31 +0000

[...] interviewed Jeff yesterday and posted an article about the Washington DC Hungry Academy program on the RailsBridge Open Workshops blog. I’m skeptical that you can got from “I’ve never coded” to writing [...]

Comment on Doing it Right: Harvey Mudd’s Gender-balanced CS Program by There Is No Overnight Success In Coding « Learning…

There Is No Overnight Success In Coding « Learning… — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:27:55 +0000

[...] I think the key to getting more people to learn to code is taking out the intimidation factor from the hacker culture. This tactic actually worked amazingly well at Harvey Mudd. By restructuring their CS Program to have a beginner-friendly track, Harvey Mudd’s CS Program now consists of 40% women! [...]

Comment on About by Quora

Quora — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:26:53 +0000

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/...

Comment on October 2010 Workshop by Jaundalynn

Jaundalynn — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:40:35 +0000

Thanks for the inhisgt. It brings light into the dark!

Comment on 2011 workshop kick-off by Lessons learned from the Boston Python Workshop, an outreach event for women | Geek Feminism Blog

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:02:12 +0000

[...] is a huge, unmet demand for programming events for women, across the US and globally. Our workshops fill up within hours, [...]

Comment on About by Women 2.0 » Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python

Women 2.0 » Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:32:27 +0000

[...] 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 [...]