Press Kit

Rails Girls aims to give tools for women to build their ideas.

First event, held in Helsinki in November 2010 got over 100 interested girls signed-up for the workshop.

Since then the free events have expanded to Shanghai, Singapore, Tallinn, Berlin, Krakow and many more attracting thousands of girls to the world of web building.

Rails Girls aims to open up technology and make it more approachable for girls and women.

The weekend event is free and open to all enthusiastic girls and women. Rails for Girls wants to empower girls to build the capacity and acquire the tools to conquer the last online frontier. We are a fully non-profit operation with a small base-funding from Finnish Technology Industries Federation. All events are organized together with local partners.

» Press Release in English (27.10.2010)

» Press Release in Finnish (27.10.2010)

» Press Release in Chinese (14.2.2012)

Rails Girls philosophy in an nutshell

What they say about us

In English

How to Get More Women in Tech, from a female founder’s point of view

Venture Village 25.4.2012

Personal interview with Linda Liukas, the co-founder of Rails Girls

European Center for Women in Technology 22.4.2012

In Berlin the code word is women

Smartplanet 20.4.2012

Rockin' with Ruby & the Rails Girls

6Wunderkinder, Charlette Prevot 19.4.2012

Teaching Ruby on the weekend: Rails Girls get busy in Berlin

Venture Village 16.4.2012

Solving Berlin's "women problem" with Rails Girls

Silicon Allee 16.4.2012

A big danke to the Rails Girls team

Berlin Geeketters 15.4.2012

Coding is poetry

Dot Dot Dot 14.4.2012

Interview with Rails Girls organizer Henrietta

TechBerlin 13.4.2012

Giving women tools to build their ideas with Rails Girls

Silicon Allee 11.4.2012

Rails Girls Shanghai wants to teach you how to build web apps for free!

Shanghaiist 9.2.2012

Rails for Girls Singapore

Rails Girls in Amelia Chens blog 5.2.2012

Rails for Girls: experiences in Singapore

Rails Girls in Yvonne Lim Jias blog 1.2.2012

Rails Girls Singapore: not so beginner after all

Rails Girls in E27 14.19.2011

Rails Girls go from HEL to SIN

Rails Girls in E27 26.9.2011

Girls gone coding! Women's workshop on Ruby on Rails

Rails Girls in The Next Women 22.9.2011

Girls get coding

Rails Girls in YLE News 19.9.2011

RailsGirls in Forrst Podcast

In Finnish or other languages

Rails Girls, para chicas que quieran elaborar su primera aplicación web

PulsoSocial 8.5.2012

Women on the CPU!

Gazeta.pl 18.4.2012

Flere kvinder til computeren,tak

Jyllands Posten 13.4.2012

Suomalainen Rails Girls konsepti leviää maailmalla

Teknologiateollisuus tiedote 15.3.2012

Koodauksen kulttuurivallankumous

Anette / Finnet asiakaslehti 17.2.2012

Laaja-alaisuuden liputtaja

Tietoviikko 2/2012

Onnellinen optimisti

Gloria 3/2012

Koodaten kohti muutosta

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat 13.2.2012

Tytöt tekemään verkkosivuja

Rails Girls in Kauppalehti 11.9.2011

Kasvuyrittäjyyden tehotytöt

Talouselämä 37/2011

Rails Girls - ohjelmoinnin tasa-arvon esitaistelijat (video)

Rails Girls in Vapamedia 7.9.2011

ICT-ala tarvitsee tyttöjä

Rails Girls in LUMA Sanomat 2.9.2011

ICT tytöt

Rails Girls in Luova-magazine 1.9.2011

ICT ala haluaa lisää naisia

Rails Girls in Tietokone 31.8.2011

Naiset mukaan tekemään tietotekniikasta käyttäjäystävällistä

Rails Girls in Teknologiateollisuus press release 31.8.2011

Rails & Girls - Rubiinitytöt innostuivat koodaamaan

RailsGirls in Tietoviikko 2.12.2010

Tytöt koodaa

RailsGirls in Talouselämä 3.12.2010

It’s events like these that have the power to change the face of the tech world, enabling not just women but anyone to try their hand at coding and building something great.

I'm so excited to learn Ruby on Rails and I my heart leapt when I heard that you guys were organising this workshop!

I work as journalist. I think I and most of us journalists (especially women) understand far too little about computers.

I was so excited when I first heard about this workshop. This is exactly what the world needs! I hope this workshop helps other women overcome this huge obstacle that shouldn't be there in the first place!

I must admit that I've always had a huge intrest in programming but never really had the courage to ask anyone to teach me.

I'm in a team of two girls who are about to start their own business. And programming is one area that we need to know about, but we don't, yet!

I would like to get to know other enthusiastic women, who share the same kind of attitudes and interests, second reason would be that I'm really into web design, but have very limited knowhow on building web applications myself.