Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Getting Involved in DC
Search
Allison McMillan
January 01, 2015
Technology
0
67
Getting Involved in DC
Presented numerous times about ways to get involved in tech in the DC area and why.
Allison McMillan
January 01, 2015
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Allison McMillan
See All by Allison McMillan
Crafting Purposeful Gatherings: From Goals to Actionable Outcomes
asheren
0
22
Effective Discussions for Technical Decision-Making
asheren
1
160
Offsite Planning for Everyone
asheren
1
90
Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you
asheren
0
100
Planning for Personal Sparkles: A COVID-19 Plan
asheren
0
42
Happily Ever After: A CRDT Fairy Tale
asheren
0
82
Baby Driven Development RubyConf
asheren
0
1.7k
Ruby-Bears in the land of Ruby-a-lot
asheren
0
100
You Better Work...Shop
asheren
0
380
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
ビズリーチが挑む メトリクスを活用した技術的負債の解消 / dev-productivity-con2025
visional_engineering_and_design
3
6.9k
モバイル界のMCPを考える
naoto33
0
430
敢えて生成AIを使わないマネジメント業務
kzkmaeda
2
410
MUITにおける開発プロセスモダナイズの取り組みと開発生産性可視化の取り組みについて / Modernize the Development Process and Visualize Development Productivity at MUIT
muit
1
15k
第4回Snowflake 金融ユーザー会 Snowflake summit recap
tamaoki
1
250
マーケットプレイス版Oracle WebCenter Content For OCI
oracle4engineer
PRO
3
960
React開発にStorybookとCopilotを導入して、爆速でUIを編集・確認する方法
yu_kod
1
240
What’s new in Android development tools
yanzm
0
260
Geminiとv0による高速プロトタイピング
shinya337
0
260
マネジメントって難しい、けどおもしろい / Management is tough, but fun! #em_findy
ar_tama
7
950
OSSのSNSツール「Misskey」をさわってみよう(右下ワイプで私のOSCの20年を振り返ります) / 20250705-osc2025-do
akkiesoft
0
150
Backlog ユーザー棚卸しRTA、多分これが一番早いと思います
__allllllllez__
1
140
Featured
See All Featured
Product Roadmaps are Hard
iamctodd
PRO
54
11k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
morganepeng
130
19k
[Rails World 2023 - Day 1 Closing Keynote] - The Magic of Rails
eileencodes
35
2.4k
How STYLIGHT went responsive
nonsquared
100
5.6k
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
10
680
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
53
7.7k
It's Worth the Effort
3n
185
28k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
524
40k
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
addyosmani
7
730
The Psychology of Web Performance [Beyond Tellerrand 2023]
tammyeverts
48
2.9k
RailsConf & Balkan Ruby 2019: The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
eileencodes
138
34k
Fight the Zombie Pattern Library - RWD Summit 2016
marcelosomers
233
17k
Transcript
The DC Ruby Community Allison McMillan @allie_p
Who Am I? DC Developer GA Engineer Self-taught Dev Conference
Speaker Rails Girls Organizer Involved Community Member
Why get involved?
Jobs
Friends
Additional learning
MINASWAN
Nova code and coffee Every other Saturday 9am-noon in Dunn
Loring at the CustomInk office.
DC Fem Tech code and coffee Periodically.
Arlington Ruby 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:30pm. At GMU
in Clarendon. Socializing after. 1 presentation open to all levels. Questions welcome.
DC Rug 2nd thursday of the month at 7pm at
Optoro (7th and H). Pizza for dinner. 2 presentations. Some socializing after. Hack Nights- 4th Tues.
Nova Ruby At least once a month. Not just ruby.
USSR: United Silver Spring Ruby First Tues. of every month
at 7:30. Discussion-based presentation
Ruby Loco 2nd Monday and last friday of every month.
Mondays are hack nights. Fridays are lunches. In Loudoun county, VA.
Ladies who Code, Women who Code, etc.
DCJS Rebooting soon.
Node DC NodeSchool once per month. And meetup once per
month.
Slack Teams: Code Newbie DC Tech (which has arlington ruby
and other channels in it) LGBT in Tech Self sign-up at: http://dctechslack.herokuapp.com
Just GO
Thank you!! @allie_p
[email protected]