RailsBridge

h1. Workshops

*Project mission:* enabling Rails developers everywhere to organize and present high-quality introductory Rails workshops.

*Project lead:* Sarah Mei, sarah mei at gmail dot com.

*How?* Sarah Mei and Sarah Allen are organizing an introductory Rails workshop series in San Francisco. We'll be releasing all our topic outlines, slides, logistics notes, etc., and inviting the community to use and modify them.

These initial workshops are aimed at getting more women in the SF Ruby community, but the workshop materials are suitable for a general audience. We hope that by releasing them, they'll find a wider audience than just the people we can personally reach.

*Where?* All materials will be on github: http://github.com/railsbridge - look for content to start appearing the week of June 8th.

*How can I help?* Currently we need help with the following:

* We need volunteers for the event in San Francisco. If you're in the bay area on June 12th or 13th, please let us know:

http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/calendar/10527816/

http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/calendar/10527868/

* Assembling an Ubuntu live CD containing all the stuff we will be installing on participants' laptops - in case some of them can't get everything installed in the time we have for installation. The list of what we're installing is here: http://wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Workshop_Installation_Notes

* Writing detailed installation instructions for various operating systems. The devchix wiki link above lists the operating systems that we currently have instructions for - we're missing all the various flavors of OS X, as well as a few Windows versions. The Server 2003 instructions are the most detailed. 

*Please feel free to make an account on that wiki and edit and add pages.* We would have started over here on this wiki, but the workshop project actually got going before RailsBridge did. :)