RailsBridge Information

RailsBridge is an organization that works to increase diversity in tech by putting on a variety of awesome free events. Our most well-known efforts are free weekend workshops where women learn Ruby on Rails from volunteers. The students at our workshops range from folks who are completely new to programming to QA engineers and professional developers who want to learn Rails. RailsBridge has also put on Spanish-language workshops, Rails Bug Mashes (or bug smashes, depending on who you ask), taught Ruby to kids, set up online mentoring, and sponsored many more projects. We need your help! You could: Attend a workshop! Tell a woman you know about RailsBridge, and encourage her to attend a workshop Organize a workshop in your city Teach or TA at a workshop Contribute to our curriculum or Installfest instructions on GitHub Speak up for diversity in tech in your office or community RailsBridge was born out of a desire to improve the gender ratio in the San Francisco Rails community, and has expanded to try to improve the diversity in open source and in tech companies, too.