Hey SD Ruby!
It’s Railsbridge San Diego time and we are looking for some awesome volunteers to teach Ruby and Rails for the day! *TLDR;* Installfest: Fri April 1st, 6-8pm Workshop: Sunday April 3rd, 9:30am-4:30pm (with afterparty to follow!) Sign up to Volunteer as a Teacher or TA at: https://www.bridgetroll.org/events/247 To sponsor email Lisa, [email protected] *What is Railsbridge?* The Railsbridge Workshop for Women is a FREE day and a half workshop, set up with the goal of increasing diversity in the tech community by teaching women and other minorities Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The motivation behind Railsbridge is ‘the belief that the people making technology should accurately reflect the diversity of those using it!’ We aim for all kinds of diversity in tech: gender, race, sexual orientation, ability, and class and are emphatically LGBTQQIP2SAA friendly. Any level of experience is accepted and encouraged, from “I have never coded before” to “I’ve been programming for years and want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing.” By the end of the workshop, students have an application on the internet that connects to a database and reads and writes information. *What do volunteers do?* Volunteers Can: - Teach a class! - Don’t worry, we provide the curriculum, which you can check out here: http://docs.railsbridge.org/intro-to-rails/ - And we’ll have a training session before the workshop to make sure all teachers are ready! - TA a class! - If you don’t want to be center stage, no worries, we need your help keeping an eye on the students’ progress and helping students when they get stuck! - Guide participants in getting their dev environment installed during the Installfest! - Help us eat and drink free food and beer! - That’s right - we provide pizza and beer on Friday evening and breakfast and lunch on Sunday! Not to mention a free round of drinks at the afterparty! - And there’s onsite childcare for any students and volunteers that want it! Becoming a Railsbridge Volunteer is easy - just sign up on the Railsbridge SD registration page: https://www.bridgetroll.org/events/247 *Opportunities are also available for Railsbridge Sponosrship! * Railsbridge SD runs on sponsorship - the teaching, meals, childcare, and afterparty are all possible because of our sponsors! Sponsoring Railsbridge is a great way to get your company’s name out to the community and to demonstrate that you value diversity in the tech industry! Shout Out to our sponsors: DeskHub, LEARN academy, Dev Bootcamp, and SD Ruby! If YOU want to add your name to that list, please email Lisa ( [email protected])! *Help Us Spread the Word! * If you know someone who would be a good fit to attend the Railsbridge workshop, encourage them to sign up at: https://www.bridgetroll.org/events/247! Those not of an under-represented group can also join but ONLY as a guest of the workshop’s target population! -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
