Rails Girls Summer of Code 2017

This slide deck summarizes stats and informations about the award winning scholarship program since it's start in 2013. We'll show you why it would be awesome for your company to support us.

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1. RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE JUL - SEPT 2017 WORLDWIDE Ge#ng more women into Open Source! @RailsGirlsSoc
2. 
 RGSoC is 
 an award winning scholarship program that enables women* to work on 
 Open Source Projects - in any programming language. *we welcome everyone who idenBfies as woman or non-binary
3. full-Bme three months sponsored Scholarships
4. supported by Partner PlaBnum Gold
5. all in all 51 amazing companies that funded 16 teams in 2016 supported by
6. awarded with the Ruby Hero Award 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 beQer place.
7. Teams of 2016
8. Team locaBons in 2016
9. all in all: 146 students 52 sponsored teams, 24 volunteering teams (2013 - 2016)
10. Project Languages Open Source projects were submiQed in JavaScript, Clojure, Rust, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java and Python
11. Projects 2013-2016 students from all years contributed to 53 different Open Source projects
12. Diaspora*
 Hackety Hack Bundler Hoodie
 Rails Sinatra
 Species+ RailsApps Some of the projects Padrino Conductor Rubinius Spree
 impress.js ParBcipate Speakerinnen Hanami(Lotus)
 CocoaPods
 exercism
 LivingStyleGuide
 RailsAdmin
 Discourse…
13. over 90 % of our alumni are now working in tech
14. "Rails Girls Summer of Code is a concrete initiative to get more women coding professionally. 162 applicants means 162 potential women software engineers entering our industry. That’s 162 new and different perspectives to tackling engineering challenges. And 162 more role models for women in technology!" Supporters Duana Stanley,
 Soundcloud
15. "RGSoC was without a doubt one of the most exciting moments in the Hoodie project history. Not only did it force us to make it easier to contribute to Hoodie overall, but also: we got to work with some very enthusiastic and capable people that have enriched our project and our lives tremendously!" Mentors Jan Lenhardt,
 Hoodie Photo by Lena Reinhard
16. "RGSoC for me was an opportunity to help two smart people get their feet wet in Open Source (which can be incredibly intimidating). The contributions 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." Mentors Katrina Owen,
 exercism.io
17. “I got involved, because I believe that the program empowers women in a field that is both exciting and scary, and because I would have benefited from this kind of support myself 10 years ago.” Organizers Alexandra Leisse, 
 Supervisor 2015,
 2016
18. Support us today and help us
 get more women into Open Source! railsgirlssummerofcode.org/
 sponsors/packages/
19. Working towards a be0er Open Source community RGSoC is powered by