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The DC Ruby Community Allison McMillan @allie_p

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Who Am I? DC Developer GA Engineer Self-taught Dev Conference Speaker Rails Girls Organizer Involved Community Member

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Why get involved?

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Jobs

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Friends

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Additional learning

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MINASWAN

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Nova code and coffee Every other Saturday 9am-noon in Dunn Loring at the CustomInk office.

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DC Fem Tech code and coffee Periodically.

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Arlington Ruby 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7:30pm. At GMU in Clarendon. Socializing after. 1 presentation open to all levels. Questions welcome.

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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.

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Nova Ruby At least once a month. Not just ruby.

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USSR: United Silver Spring Ruby First Tues. of every month at 7:30. Discussion-based presentation

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Ruby Loco 2nd Monday and last friday of every month. Mondays are hack nights. Fridays are lunches. In Loudoun county, VA.

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Ladies who Code, Women who Code, etc.

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DCJS Rebooting soon.

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Node DC NodeSchool once per month. And meetup once per month.

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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

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Just GO

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Thank you!! @allie_p asheren@gmail.com