More and more Rails Girls events in Switzerland

Rails Girls is an international non-profit initiative, originally started by Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen in Helsinki in 2010 that aims to get girls and women interested in tech and web development. Rails Girls organizes hands-on workshops exclusively for women and girls to give them a great first experience in software development, a deeper understanding of web technologies and basic tools to start their own projects. Rails Girls is supported entirely by sponsors and volunteers. To this date Rails Girls workshops have taken place in many cities worldwide.

Three Rails Girls chapters are active in Switzerland and an additional chapter – Rails Girls Leman – will held the first workshop on 13 and 14 March in Lausanne . Another Event is planned for Zurich in May. Application is open until 19 April.

A Rails Girls workshop typically follows this program: on a Friday evening a so-called Install Fest takes place where the attendees bring their laptops and we help them install a text editor and Ruby on Rails - usually while enjoying ​a drink together. The next day the actual workshop takes place. 

​Either in one or several​ small groups (divided by level of experience and sometimes operating system) the participants write their first app in Ruby on Rails, assisted by a coach. At lunch time a couple of 'lightning talks' follow, aimed to motivate the women attending to continue learning, or explaining a bit more about the terminal/ version control/ cloud hosting, etc. Typically all Rails Girls events have their own logo, stickers, and sometimes even (goodie) bags and shirts. All Rails Girls guides and material are open source, contributed to by a large group of coaches and organized and maintained by a much smaller group.

General information on Rails Girls: www.railsgirls.com

New chapter Rails Girls Leman on the web: 

Website: www.railsgirls.com/leman 

Twitter: @RG_Leman

Facebook: Rails Girls Leman

Meetup: Rails Girls Leman