After briefly taking part in last week’s Free Ruby on Rails workshop at Pivotal Labs (more on the very community-focused volunteers and participants taking part in the sessions to come), it’s good to hear that events aimed at increasing the diversity of local developers aren’t stopping with the weekend. Mighty Ruby Tuesday, a benefit for the RailsBridge Open Workshop Project, is open to programmers and supporters of female technologists alike and will kick off at (you guessed it) Club Mighty on Utah St. at 8 PM.
A wide range of women and a few of their male friends took part in this most recent workshop, which featured volunteer developers leading groups of beginner, intermediate, back end, and Windows programmers. “In creating these workshops, we wanted to do something by women, for women, with help from a lot of guys,” said Sarah Allen, founder of RailsBridge, an effort to bridge the gap between aspiring developers and contributing community members through mentoring, teaching and writing. “As an open source community effort, Ruby is a great first programming language, and Rails is practical for entrepreneurs seeking to build their own web apps and for software developers who want to update their skills.”