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Allison McMillan
January 01, 2015
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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
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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
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