The San Francisco Ruby Meetup Group

Ruby on Rails Outreach Workshop for Women, 5/21 - 5/22

May 21, 2010 · 6:00 PM
Pivotal Labs HQ

Friday May 21, 6-9pm (REQUIRED): software install fest
Saturday May 22: 9:30am-4pm: workshop
5pm: after-party for volunteers & attendees, location TBA

Location:
Pivotal Labs
731 Market Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
The Pivotal offices are on Market Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, near the Powell and Montgomery BART stations. They are wheelchair accessible. Secure bike parking available inside.

Organizers:
Melanie Archer and Amy Chen

This workshop is intended to reach out to women who are new to Ruby and Rails. To register, you must identify as a woman. Men, you are welcome to come if you find a woman who wants to learn Ruby and Rails who will register and bring you as a guest.

In this workshop, we'll take you through building a complete web application using Ruby on Rails. By the end of the workshop, you'll have an application on the internet that connects to a database and reads and writes information. We'll meet up Install Fest day to install all of the software you need, and then spend workshop day learning and writing code.

Total programming novices, system administrators, developers in other languages, and folks who attended our previous workshops are all welcome. We'll have 5-7 different classes separated by experience level. Each participant needs to bring his or her own computer.

When you RSVP you'll be asked a few question about your operating system, level and type of programming experience, and whether you will require childcare. Childcare and private space for nursing or pumping is available -- just let us know.

We are looking for additional volunteers, both folks who know Ruby on Rails to TA and people who are willing to help with logistics. Please sign up here: http://www.meetup.com...

If you have questions or ideas for us, the best way to get in touch is to send a message to the organizers (Melanie Archer and Amy Chen).

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Renee Chu

Hi all,

Thanks to Melanie, Amy, the Sarahs and all the volunteers for a wonderful workshop! Maya, Maggie, Rebecca and I were all new to programming when we took this workshop and have been talking about forming a beginners' study group to attend the Meetups together. If you'd like to join too, come to the June 1st Hack Day at Pivotal. Email me ([masked]) so we can start a thread about any details that need to get discussed.

Renee Chu

0 · May 24, 2010
A former member

Great workshop! Thank you to all organizers and instructors!

0 · May 22, 2010
Adria Richards

Had a good time getting Ruby, Rails, gems and supporting development apps setup. See you all Saturday!

0 · May 22, 2010