Teach (all the) Rails

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1. Teach Rails! three reports ...

2. Who we are

3. Rails at University - Why not? • Universities are not

   for learning useful stuff • Universities are for Java • Universities are for strongly typed languages • Professors don't have the time to adapt the curriculum in a fast moving field like Rails

4. Rails at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences • BSc MultiMediaTechnology

   ◦ specialisations in either web or game development ◦ 3 years ◦ html, css, js, php + project in the first year ◦ ruby on rails, more js + projects in the second year ◦ placement + final project in the third year ◦ Projects in cooperation with Arts Program ◦ https://portfolio.multimediatechnology.at/ • MSc MultiMediaTechnology with Moduls on ◦ Scalable Web Architectures ◦ Client Side Web Engineering ◦ Algorithms for the Social Web ◦ Semantic Web and Data Engineering ◦ 2 year masters project, big teams, developers + artists

5. Get Rails into Universities! Demand it ! Be a Lecturer

   ! • in Salzburg? • Come to our Meetup http://www.meetup.com/salzburgwebdev/ • Come to our Barcamp http://lanyrd.com/series/barcamp-salzburg/ Support the people who do it!

6. Rails at epiGenesys • epiGenesys is a social enterprise wholly

   owned by The University of Sheffield • We have trained and mentored master level students using Ruby on Rails since 2009 • They are working for real clients and gives them experience in the real world • Because we are not bound by a fixed curriculum we can change our strategy

7. RailsBridge RailsBridge is Awesome!

8. Do something! • Volunteer to organize a workshop • Volunteer

   your space to host a workshop • Find women coorganizers railsbridge.org @railsbridge