Once Upon A Time

Once upon a *me… By Sarah Allen

Once upon a *me, I went to a technical meetup…

Seeing only a few women wasn’t unusual at small gatherings. The year before, I went to a JS Meetup where there were only two women. I had hoped that it was an oﬀ night.

Both meetups had only two women About 70 aFendees 2 women = 3%

I expected to see more women at a larger regional conference

No luck. 200 aFendees 6 women = 3%

Two of us started to talk… …and did some math: If we held a workshop to teach women Ruby, with 10‐20 women / month, 12 months = about 200 women Assume that 10% s*ck around = 20 new women in the Ruby community

We decided to do something. Conserva*vely, we thought we could triple the number of women at the conference…. but my personal goal is to reach 50/50 by 2010.

With a lot of help…

We put on a workshop

Next we are having a hack session

and planning another workshop If you want to help organize, teach or volunteer in any way, join our google group: hFp://groups.google.com/group/railsbridge‐workshops

Anyone can do this. Anywhere. All of the workshop materials are open source hFp://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/railsbridge/wiki/Workshops

We don’t need to wait *ll next year…

for things to be diﬀerent

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Once Upon A Time

by Sarah Allen on Jun 19, 2009

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