Why I organise Rails Girls

A short presentation on why I organize Rails Girls and why not having more women in programming is a problem.

1. Why I organise Rails Girls Elisha Tan @elishatan
2. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Nah not really, it’s like 2010 in Singapore.
3. Check out my mad tech skills yo
4. Online marketplace for in-person classes
5. Writing codes is amazing
6. People aren’t rude
10. Why is it a problem? And why should you care?
11. Not a biology problem
12. Ada Lovelace - world’s first computer programmer
13. Margaret Hamilton - prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 moon landing - coined the term “Software Engineering” Grace Hooper - invented the first compiler - coined the term “debugging”
15. But a marketing problem
17. Why should you care?
18. Talent Crunch
21. Contribution Crunch
22. No data, lol.
23. Fermi estimation • 1% of all programmers contribute to open source (Total gems: 95271) • Programmers are mostly men • Half the population are men If more women pick up programming, we’ll have twice as much contribution?!
25. How can you help?
26. for women != anti-men
27. status quo don’t help
28. • Help out at Rails Girls as coaches • Organise more events • Tell a friend about Rails Girls (next one this Sat!) • No subtle sexism • Don’t be an asshole
29. Goal for RG Singapore
30. Let’s make Ruby a better place @elishatan