Herding Cats and Gathering Stats

RailsBridge is an international non-profit organisation that provides free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends. In July 2013, after a lot of emails and Skype calls, a handful of Cape Town developers got together and started running regular RailsBridge workshops, creating a fork of the open source documentation and materials.

This talk discusses our journey over the past year and some bits. It covers how we've used agile principles and our strong leaning toward continuous improvement. It'll also cover the techniques we've used for gathering feedback, the changes we've made based on the feedback, and how we're measuring our successes and failures. Improvements and Pull Requests always welcome.

You will get a sticker at the end of the talk.

About Steve

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Steve is a Londoner who escaped to Cape Town in 2004. He has a background in maths and finance, but these days does Front-end dev and User Experience stuff at Praekelt. He became interested in RailsBridge workshops after hearing about them at Rubyfuza a few year ago.

He’s a bit addicted to meetups: you can find him helping out with RailsBridge Cape Town, Cape Town Front-End Developers, and SPIN, and loitering around a bunch of others. If he’s not there, he’s probably crouched in an awkward position in front of something funny-looking, taking pictures of it.