Rails Girls Perth 2013 - Intro Slides

The intro slides used during the start of Rails Girls Perth. Mostly house keeping, but some information on the what / why.

Transcript

1. Rails Girls Perth
2. Welcome!
3. House Keeping
4. Open Drinks + Laptops
5. #railsgirlsperth
6. What is Rails Girls?
7. Started in Helsinki, Finland
8. - http://railsgirls.com “Our aim is to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas.”
10. http://railsgirls.com/
11. http://ruby.org.au/code-of-conduct.html
12. What is today about?
13. “I needed to provision a vagrant vm to set up my development env, but I couldn’t decide between NoSQL options. I eventually chose Cassandra over MongoDB as eventual consistency is better than no consistency and it was easier to horizontally scale.”
14. “I needed to provision a vagrant vm to set up my development env, but I couldn’t decide between NoSQL options. I eventually chose Cassandra over MongoDB as eventual consistency is better than no consistency and it was easier to horizontally scale.”
16. The very, very basics.
17. 1. How to program
18. 2. What can be programmed
19. http:// guides.railsgirls.com/ guides
20. Sponsors
25. T-Shirts!
26. Todays Structure
27. First up: 10:10-11:00 - Intro to UX
28. Next up: 11:00-11:30 - Intro to Programming
29. Then, finally: 11:30-1:00 - Workshop! (and Hangout with the other states)
30. Time for a break! 1:00-2:00 - Lunch
31. Next up 2:00-2:30 - Bentobox Exercise
32. Once again, 2:30-6:00 - Workshop! (and some lightning talks)
33. And then, 7:00+ - After Drinks
34. Coaches