Geek Mama

Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women This Weekend!

October 16th, 2009

I am sooo excited!  It feels like opening night.  Wow, haven’t had these jitters in a long while.

I would like to personally thank all of our generous sponsors who are making this weekend’s Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women possible. Thanks to them, attendees needn’t leave the workshop in search of coffee and food. But more importantly, we will be webcasting the event live! More details here.

While all our sponsors were enthusiastic about contributing towards childcare costs, Julia Ashmun was our sole individual contributor earmarking her donation to waive referral fees for attendees in need of sitter services.

Our first sponsor Hashrocket has got to be one of the coolest dev shops on the planet. (I am such a fangirl!)  If only because Desi Mcadam works there, founder of DevChix. Thanks for all your support, Desi!

Congratulations to EngineYard who just raised 19 Million with new investors. Nice to hear good karma coming back to good people.

We also send thanks to GitHub, the most popular Git hosting site. Brought to you by Logical Awesome. Don’t you just love that name?

And lastly we are grateful to RailsBridge for inspiring these workshops and reaching out to individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the community.

Thanks so much!! Can’t wait to meet everyone tonight!

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