Workshops
Version 7 (Sarah Allen, 06/14/2009 07:30 pm)
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| 3 | 1 | *Project mission:* enabling Rails developers everywhere to organize and present high-quality introductory Rails workshops. |
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| 5 | 2 | Sarah Mei | *Project lead:* Sarah Mei, sarah mei at gmail dot com. |
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| 7 | 2 | Sarah Mei | *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. |
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| 9 | 7 | Sarah Allen | *Mailing list* for organizers and teachers: http://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge-workshops |
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| 11 | 2 | Sarah Mei | 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. |
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| 13 | 7 | Sarah Allen | *Where?* Materials are currently at: |
| 14 | 7 | Sarah Allen | * All of the info about how we ran the workshop is online here: http://wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Ruby_and_Rails_workshops_for_women |
| 15 | 7 | Sarah Allen | * The details of what we taught is here: http://wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Workshop_Topics (with slides linked at the top) |
| 16 | 7 | Sarah Allen | * Slides for the folks who had no programming experience: http://ultrasaurus.github.com/workshop/programming_intro.html |
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| 18 | 4 | Sarah Mei | *How can I help?* Currently we need help with the following: |
| 19 | 7 | Sarah Allen | * Would be good to move the github materials to railsbrige/workshop instead of ultrasaurus |
| 20 | 1 | * 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 |
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| 21 | 1 | * Editing 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. Even if you can just give it 15 minutes and try the first thing, go for it. |
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| 23 | 1 | *Please feel free to make an account on the devchix 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. :) |
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| 25 | 7 | Sarah Allen | * Past Workshops |
| 26 | 7 | Sarah Allen | ** 6/12-6/13 at OrangeLabs in South San Francisco |
| 27 | 7 | Sarah Allen | *** Meetup pages for Friday and Saturday |
| 28 | 7 | Sarah Allen | http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/calendar/10527816/ |
| 29 | 7 | Sarah Allen | http://www.meetup.com/sfruby/calendar/10527868/ |
| 30 | 7 | Sarah Allen | *** Feedback |
| 31 | 7 | Sarah Allen | "In addition to learning way more than I expected, I enjoyed the tone of the entire weekend. It was the only attitude-free, newbie-safe and mama-friendly tech event I have ever attended" |
| 32 | 7 | Sarah Allen | "It was wonderful to be surrounded by such motivated expert women programmers. It was a new experience for me. I liked it." |