Rails Girls Groningen 8-9th November 2013

Hallo wereld! Hello world!

Rails Girls comes to Groningen! During the free two-day workshop we'll dive into the magical world of Ruby on Rails.

Applications are closed

You learn designing, prototyping and coding with the help from our coaches.

You need your own laptop, curiosity and a sprinkle of imagination!

Want to help? We are looking for volunteers. Email us.


Friday 8th November

18.00 - 21.00

Installation party

Get know the attendees a little bit before hand. Bring your laptop if you can, so we can install Ruby on Rails for you. There’ll be pizza. And drinks.

Where:
Launch Café
Herestraat 106, Groningen


Saturday 9th November

9:30 - 10:00

Registration & coffee

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome

Outline of the day & word from sponsors
10.15- 10.35

Bentobox - Understanding Web Apps

Recap of what we’ve learned and how it all fits together.
10:35 - 11:30

Introduction to ruby

Let's get coding! Tryruby.org
13:15 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:30

Lightning talks from coaches

  • Allard Stijnman and Pascal Touset:
       Lean Prototyping
  • Peter Berkenbosch:
       Intro to BDD/TDD
  • Martina Simicic:
       How to get in..?
  • Hester van Wijk:
       Rails Girls Summer of Code
14:30 - 17:00

WORKSHOP

Extend your application.
afterwards –
later

Afterparty

Hang out with all the participants!

Information

Applications close: October 25th, 2013
Acceptances informed: October 28th, 2013

Location: Launch Café
Herestraat 106
Groningen

Partners

Rails Girls Groningen is co-organized with our awesome partners:

Roqua Roqua, measuring and monitoring in health care and research. Roqua is an online application for Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) for regional mental health institutions.

Gitlab.com Gitlab.com makes using Gitlab more convenient: with their hosted Gitlab repositories, you can save yourself the burden of installing, maintaining and making backups of your Gitlab installation. Instead, you can instantly enjoy all the git goodness Gitlab has to offer. Getting started with Gitlab has never been easier. In addition to that, with Gitlab.com you get ten hosted private repository for free!

Github Github is version control for software development and so much more. Whether it's a weekend side project, your favorite open source library, a startup destined for glory, or your company's app, GitHub helps everyone work together with tools for easier collaboration and more visibility. Check it out — open source is free!

Voys Telecom Voys is one of Europe's fastest growing business telephone service providers. We believe telecommunications can and should be different. Serving over 4000 customers we provide the best telecom solution for SME's with 1-50 employees.

Catawiki Catawiki, world’s largest catalogue & auction house for collectors. You can keep track of your collection and wish list for free. Catawiki also provides the capability of buying and selling your collectables, using the central catalogue as the basis. The Catawiki catalogue has big advantages over a paper catalogue: it’s free and it’s always up to date

Kabisa Kabisa is the market leader in Ruby on Rails development in the Netherlands. You too, can learn Ruby on Rails from our professional trainers with years of Rails experience and start writing software in a quicker, better and more enjoyable way too. With their personal attention and experience, you’ll acquire both the fundamental knowledge and necessary skills to start your own projects with Ruby on Rails.

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FAQ

How much does the workshop cost? Nothing, it's free! You just need to be excited!

Who is this aimed for? Women of any age with basic knowledge of working with a computer. We’ve had people of all ages taking part. Most of the speeches are given in english, but small group work is done in dutch. Please bring your laptop.

Can men attend? Yes, but you need to be accompanied by an interested lady. Also, girls are given a priority.

I know how to program - How can I help? We’re also looking for people to be coaches. We’ll have a two-three hour workshop before the event to walk you through the curriculum. Email us