RGSoC 2018 Sponsor pitch

This slide deck summarises stats and information about Rails Girls Summer of Code, our award-winning scholarship program for women and non-binary people. Read on to see why it would be awesome for your company to support us!

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1. SPONSOR PITCH
   

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2. Rails Girls Summer of Code is an award-
   winning global fellowship program aimed at
   bringing more diversity into Open Source.
   The program welcomes all women and non-
   binary applicants who want to gain a
   fooCng in the world of programming and
   further expand their knowledge and skills.
   The focus is on advanced beginners who
   want to go into programming full-Cme.
   Rails Girls Summer of Code is a not-for-
   profit organizaCon that operates solely on
   the generous donaCons of sponsors, and
   individuals from the community.
   About
   Rails Girls
   Summer of
   Code
   

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3. * Full-Cme or part-Cme
   * Three months
   * Sponsored
   FULL-TIME
   SPONSORED
   PART-TIME
   SPONSORED
   Our Scholarships
   

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4. 45 companies funded
   20 teams in 2017
   RGSoC 2017 Sponsors
   

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5. RGSoC 2017 Sponsors
   Partner
   PlaCnum
   Gold
   

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6. Ruby Hero Award
   In 2016, Anika Lindtner, Laura
   Gaetano and Sara Regan were
   each awarded the Ruby Hero
   Award for organizing RGSoC. 

   This award recognizes efforts to
   make the Ruby community a beUer
   place.
   

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7. The parCcipaCng
   Open Source projects
   were in Clojure,
   JavaScript, PHP,
   Python, Ruby, Rust,
   and Java
   RGSoC 2017 Projects
   

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8. RGSoC 2017 Teams
   

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9. RGSoC 2017 Team LocaLons
   

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10. RGSoC 2013 to 2017
    

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11. Since our first ediLon, we have received
    700+ Team ApplicaLons
    0
    50
    100
    150
    200
    2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
    

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12. During the past 5 years, we contributed to
    67 Open Source projects
    

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13. “RGSoC for me was an opportunity to help
    two smart people get their feet wet in Open
    Source (which can be incredibly in=mida=ng).
    The contribu=ons to the project were
    valuable and as a bonus, I got some insights
    into how I can improve the experience for
    new contributors in the future.”
    Katrina Owen, 

    Exercism.io Mentor (USA)
    RGSoC Mentors
    

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14. “Rails Girls Summer of Code changes the
    tech community more than one can assume
    at first glance. Women learning new things
    and geIng their foot in the door are only the
    =p of the iceberg.
    This program also alters mindsets of people
    around, seIng new standards of how the
    tech community should look.
    Year by year, we spread the idea of
    diversifying tech to make today's diversity
    challenges build up tomorrow's new reality,
    where diversity is just a normal and usual
    state of things. This is what we aim for.”
    Maria Ronacher,

    Organizer (Austria)
    RGSoC Organizers
    

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15. “I got involved, because I believe
    that the program empowers
    women in a field that is both
    exci=ng and scary, and because 

    I would have benefited from this
    kind of support myself 

    10 years ago.”
    Alexandra Leisse, 

    Supervisor (Germany)
    Supervisors
    

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16. Support us today and help us diversify Open Source
    railsgirlssummerofcode.org/sponsors/packages
    Support us
    

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