• Open Workshop Project
  • Resources:
    • If you want to get involved, join our google group
  • How can I help?
• Upcoming Workshops
• Venues
• Past Workshops
• Writeups
• Feedback from attendees

Open Workshop Project¶

Mission: Enabling Rails developers everywhere to organize and present high-quality introductory Rails workshops.

Lead: Sarah Mei, sarah mei at gmail dot com.

Summary: Railsbridge runs introductory Rails workshop series in San Francisco. We are releasing all our topic outlines, slides, logistics notes, etc., and inviting the community to use and modify them.

Mailing list: for workshop organizers, volunteers and teachers

These initial workshops were 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.

Resources:¶

There are a few places to look for things right now; we're working on consolidating. Meanwhile:

If you want to get involved, join our google group¶

If you would like to organizer a workshop, check out our organizer wiki (you're on it)

• Workshop Recipes
• workshop sponsor info
• workshop timeline

If you want to know what we teach, check out devchix and git

• All of the info about workshop curriculum
• Read the details of what we teach (slides are linked at the top)
• View workshop slides in-browser
• See the github repo of the slides and workshop materials

How can I help?¶

Please join the google group and ask, there is lots to do, including writing up a list of things to do!

Please feel free to make an account on the DevChix wiki and edit and add pages, even if you're a guy. We would have started over here on this wiki, but the workshop project actually got going before RailsBridge did. :)

Upcoming Workshops¶

• July 15-16, Modcloth SF, Amy Lightholder, Rachel Myer
• July 22-23, Kapor Foundation, Carmen Díaz Eschauri, en Español
• August 5-6, SF/Quid, Andrea Angquist, Walter Yu

• Octoberish, Code Camp? No install?
• East Bay/Oakland?, Date TBD Shailen Tuli, Glen Jarvis
• TBD, HackerDojo MountainView, Kelly Dunn, Doug Goldie (moved)

Venues¶

San Francisco

• Med Help HQ, 929 Market St, SF (2 wings w/ 5 sm-to-med conf rooms, sofas, desks, max 130 ppl)
• IGN, 625 2nd St, SF (large space & lots of conf rooms)
• Miso, 5th & Mission (large space + lots of conf rooms)
• Quid, Front & Pacific (large space + 3 conf rooms)
• Microsoft, above Westlake mall (large space + lots of conf rooms)
• Pivotal Labs, happy to host/sponsor every 3-4 months
• Engine Yard

Venues - South Bay

• Hacker Dojo (Mountain View)
• CMU (Mountain View)
• Foothill College?

Venues - North Bay

• Enphase Energy (Petaluma)
• O'Reilly (Sebastopol)

Venues - East Bay

• Berkeley/Jon Seidel?
• Beeswax?
• TechLiminal?
• CouchOne?
• 6050 Lowell St?

Past Workshops¶

• June 12-13 2009 at OrangeLabs in South San Francisco ( Meetup pages for Friday and Saturday )
• July 31- Aug 1 2009 at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco ( Meetup pages for Friday and Saturday )
• Sept 26- Sept 27 2009 at sfCube in San Francisco
• Oct 3-4 2009 at Aloha on Rails
• Oct 16-17 2009 at Berkman Center, Harvard University in the Boston, MA area ( "details": http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/genderandtech/ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women/ )
• Feb 26-27 2010 at Microsoft in San Francisco ( Meetup pages )
• May 20-21, 2010 at Pace University in New York City ( http://nycrubyworkshop.com/, @nycrubyworkshop )
• May 21-22, 2010 at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco (Meetup page )
• Sept 10-11, 2010 at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco (Meetup page )
• Oct 5-6, 2010 Rails Quickstart Charity Workshop at Mountainrb Conference in Boulder, CO
• October 22-23, 2010 at Engine Yard in San Francisco ( Meetup page )
• Dec 10-11, 2010 at IGN in San Francisco ( Meetup page )
• Feb 4-5, SF/Twitter, Amy Chen,
• Feb 4-5, Chicago/Hashrocket, Desi McAdam
• March 11-12, Enphase Energy, Petaluma, Brenda Strech & Ilen Zazueta-Hall
• March 25-26, Pivotal Labs, SF, Amy Lightholder
• April 8-9, SF/ModCloth, Megan Guering
• April 22-23, Seattle, Founder's Co-op Elise Worthy (sign up here)
• May 6-7, SF/Pivotal, Raphael Lee, Andrea Angquist
• May 6-7, NYC/Harvest, Mimi Hui
• June 3-4, Chicago, Ginny Hendry, Hashrocket

Writeups¶

• General
  • Story about how this started
  • Moving the Needle: How SF Ruby Got to 18%
  • the Sarahs: be the change you want to see
• June 2009 SF workshop
  • My drop in the bucket
  • Creating a self-organizing environment
  • The First Rails Workshop
  • Open Source Workshop
  • Post-Workshop Hack Session July 1st
• August 2009 SF workshop
  • Psychology of Abundance
• September 2009 SF Workshop
• October 2009 SF Workshop
  • Post Workshop News
  • Teaching at the Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women
  • Stone Soup Workshop
• May 2010
  • Recognizing Leadership

Feedback from attendees¶

"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"

"It was wonderful to be surrounded by such motivated expert women programmers. It was a new experience for me. I liked it."

"A friendly and supportive environment. I was surprised at how much personal attention and care was given--really a wonderful, wonderful event from a great team!"

Read more attendee feedback! (6/13, 8/1)