Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi (Red Dot Ruby Conference 2024)

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1. Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi Eriko Sugiyama (eririn)
2. Self introduction Eriko Sugiyama (eririn) Rubyist Love Travelling
3. What I have done to connect Rails Girls and RubyKaigi from a community perspective
4. Part of the organizing team for RubyKaigi 2023 One of the helpers for RubyKaigi 2022 and 2024 Additional background Rails Girls Tokyo 15th Organizer
5. About Rails Girls Rails Girls is a workshop for women who want to try programming https://railsgirls.com/ It was born in Helsinki, Finland in 2010
6. About RubyKaigi RubyKaigi is a conference to talk about Ruby https://rubykaigi.org/2024/ It is held somewhere in Japan
7. Rails Girls / RubyKaigi Contents are totally different We can meet with many Rubyists There are opportunities to get to know other attendees
8. between girls between girls and coaches between coaches In Rails Girls, there are three types of encounters Feature of Rails Girls
9. Rails Girls Coaches are active engineers Coaches have a deep understanding about the Ruby community Rails Girls can be the first step / gateway to the Ruby community
10. RubyKaigi for girls It’s a place to meet Rubyists and gain energy We can see people who create Ruby We can reunite with friends made at Rails Girls
11. Connection to RubyKaigi I talked about RubyKaigi in the organizer LT Matsuda-san made a speech about RubyKaigi Emori-san introduced a support system to attend RubyKaigi
12. As a result One of attendees joined using Rails Girls Japan’s support program Another attendee said that it was fun to see rubyfriends again
13. I could bring people from Rails Girls to RubyKaigi Next workshop was held after my organization Accomplishment
14. History in Japan The first workshop was held in 2012 in Tokyo Since then, it’s been held almost 70 times across Japan
15. Me and Rails Girls I first attended Rails Girls Tokyo 13th, in 2020, as a coach I was unsure of my ability to teach programming My interest in organizing a workshop was born It was so fun and I learned a lot
16. Now, you should be interested in holding a Rails Girls workshop...
17. Preparation Date Venue Logo Declaration
18. Preparation Venue
19. Preparation Logo
20. Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2012-09-07.html
21. Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/kyoto2012
22. Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/sendai-2018-11-03.html
23. Historical logos https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2020-02-15.html
24. April is spring Cherry blossoms symbolize spring Related to the season Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s logo
25. Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s logo https://railsgirls.com/tokyo-2023-04-08.html
26. Rails Girls Guides https://guides.railsgirls.com/app https://guides.railsgirls.com
27. Rails Girls Tokyo 15th’s time table Lunch time Workshop Workshop Workshop Registration Opening Self Introduction Sponsoring LT Short break After party & Coach LT
28. Preparation
29. Selecting participants Girls Coaches Choose those with little to no programming experience Mix of new-comers and well- experienced coaches Mixed genders
30. Meeting with coaches To get to know each other in advance Check the document which we use at the workshop The PR to change to use Ruby3.2 in document
31. Directions to coaches https://guides.railsgirls.com/app
32. Lunch content Conducted an interview with a past attendee, who is now working as an engineer To show how the workshop can be the first step
33. Rails Girls Tokyo 15th
34. Rails Girls and RubyKaigi have same perspective in terms of community Conclusion It is so helpful for beginners to join Rails Girls first before attending RubyKaigi
35. Rails Girls was held in Singapore Rails Girls in Singapore I hope it will be resumed https://railsgirls.com
36. Special thanks
37. Thank you 谢谢 Terima kasih நன்றி