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

by ericgpks

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Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi Eriko Sugiyama (eririn)

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Self introduction Eriko Sugiyama (eririn) Rubyist Love Travelling

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What I have done to connect Rails Girls and RubyKaigi from a community perspective

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Part of the organizing team for RubyKaigi 2023 One of the helpers for RubyKaigi 2022 and 2024 Additional background Rails Girls Tokyo 15th Organizer

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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

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About RubyKaigi RubyKaigi is a conference to talk about Ruby https://rubykaigi.org/2024/ It is held somewhere in Japan

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Rails Girls / RubyKaigi Contents are totally different We can meet with many Rubyists There are opportunities to get to know other attendees

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between girls between girls and coaches between coaches In Rails Girls, there are three types of encounters Feature of Rails Girls

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I could bring people from Rails Girls to RubyKaigi Next workshop was held after my organization Accomplishment

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History in Japan The first workshop was held in 2012 in Tokyo Since then, it’s been held almost 70 times across Japan

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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

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Now, you should be interested in holding a Rails Girls workshop...

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Preparation Date Venue Logo Declaration

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Preparation Venue

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Preparation Logo

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Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2012-09-07.html

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Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/kyoto2012

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Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/sendai-2018-11-03.html

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Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2020-02-15.html

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April is spring Cherry blossoms symbolize spring Related to the season Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s logo

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Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s logo https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2023-04-08.html

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Rails Girls Guides https://guides.railsgirls.com/app https://guides.railsgirls.com

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Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s time table Lunch time Workshop Workshop Workshop Registration Opening Self Introduction Sponsoring LT Short break After party & Coach LT

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Preparation

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Selecting participants Girls Coaches Choose those with little to no programming experience Mix of new-comers and well- experienced coaches Mixed genders

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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

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Directions to coaches https://guides.railsgirls.com/app

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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

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Rails Girls Tokyo 15th

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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

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Rails Girls was held in Singapore Rails Girls in Singapore I hope it will be resumed https://railsgirls.com