Workshop ecosystem¶

For it to be successful, the workshop needs to be part of an ecosystem. It seems to work best when there is a community, events and resources available locally. For Ruby and women, it seems that a regular in-person meeting makes a big difference. If there isn't already a monthly meetup, plan to start one after the workshop or perhaps a safe-place-to-code like the Berkman Center code crunch. If you have a large enough community and a founding team with stamina, plan a series of workshops, so that workshop graduates can come back an TA the next workshop. Learn, understand, practice, teach is a powerful sequence. Women respond to need more than self-promotion. What they won't do for themselves, they will do for a like-minded community.