Geek Mama

Opensource Women’s Leadership Summit

January 31st, 2011

Friday night, I attended the Opensource Womens Leadership Summit held by RailsBridge and sponsored by PivotalLabs honoring women who over the past two years have volunteered their time to the Ruby on Rails Workshops for Women.

The workshop project has trained almost 600 people, nearly 500 of them women, in five cities in learning how to develop web applications using the popular Ruby on Rails framework. The project bridges the gap from aspiring developer to contributing open source community member through mentoring, teaching and writing.

Sarah Allen, Sarah Mei, Desi McAdams and myself were on a panel to talk about our involvement with the project and past workshops. I have never been so honored than to be included in a group with these women. They are well respected coders and leaders in the ror community.  These are my role models and it was uber awesome to have the opportunity to hang out with these ladies.

So, as crazy busy as my life is with a full time developer job, side projects, meetups and two toddlers, I can’t help but be inspired to hold at least one more workshop out here in Boston this year.  Plans are still fuzzy, but I’m thinking early May before RailsConf.  Ping me at @lleahy if you’d be interested in helping out.

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