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Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi (Red ...

Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi (Red Dot Ruby Conference 2024)

ericgpks

July 30, 2024
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  1. Part of the organizing team for RubyKaigi 2023 One of

    the helpers for RubyKaigi 2022 and 2024 Additional background Rails Girls Tokyo 15th Organizer
  2. About Rails Girls Rails Girls is a workshop for women

    who want to try programming https://railsgirls.com/ It was born in Helsinki, Finland in 2010
  3. About RubyKaigi RubyKaigi is a conference to talk about Ruby

    https://rubykaigi.org/2024/ It is held somewhere in Japan
  4. Rails Girls / RubyKaigi Contents are totally different We can

    meet with many Rubyists There are opportunities to get to know other attendees
  5. between girls between girls and coaches between coaches In Rails

    Girls, there are three types of encounters Feature of Rails Girls
  6. Rails Girls Coaches are active engineers Coaches have a deep

    understanding about the Ruby community Rails Girls can be the first step / gateway to the Ruby community
  7. RubyKaigi for girls It’s a place to meet Rubyists and

    gain energy We can see people who create Ruby We can reunite with friends made at Rails Girls
  8. Connection to RubyKaigi I talked about RubyKaigi in the organizer

    LT Matsuda-san made a speech about RubyKaigi Emori-san introduced a support system to attend RubyKaigi
  9. As a result One of attendees joined using Rails Girls

    Japan’s support program Another attendee said that it was fun to see rubyfriends again
  10. I could bring people from Rails Girls to RubyKaigi Next

    workshop was held after my organization Accomplishment
  11. History in Japan The first workshop was held in 2012

    in Tokyo Since then, it’s been held almost 70 times across Japan
  12. Me and Rails Girls I first attended Rails Girls Tokyo

    13th, in 2020, as a coach I was unsure of my ability to teach programming My interest in organizing a workshop was born It was so fun and I learned a lot
  13. Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s time table Lunch time Workshop Workshop

    Workshop Registration Opening Self Introduction Sponsoring LT Short break After party & Coach LT
  14. Selecting participants Girls Coaches Choose those with little to no

    programming experience Mix of new-comers and well- experienced coaches Mixed genders
  15. Meeting with coaches To get to know each other in

    advance Check the document which we use at the workshop The PR to change to use Ruby3.2 in document
  16. Lunch content Conducted an interview with a past attendee, who

    is now working as an engineer To show how the workshop can be the first step
  17. Rails Girls and RubyKaigi have same perspective in terms of

    community Conclusion It is so helpful for beginners to join Rails Girls first before attending RubyKaigi
  18. Rails Girls was held in Singapore Rails Girls in Singapore

    I hope it will be resumed https://railsgirls.com