One thing I failed to mention in my earlier email is we're looking for experienced developers that are attending Rocky Mountain Ruby to would like to be guides for the program. If you're interested reach out to either Mike Gehard at [email protected] or myself. Thanks!
Cheers, Marty On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Marty Haught <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to pass along a cool new program we're trying out at Rocky > Mountain Ruby. We've been in discussion the past couple months about > diversity in our programming communities. A small community around > RailsBridge has formed and they're beginning to bring in new women > programmers. We wanted to build on that by creating the 'Opportunity > Scholarship'. It's a free pass for the conference and workshop for > beginner programmers that are primarily women, minorities or other > under-represented groups. We're going to also match these folks up > with experienced programmers to be their guide during the conference. > This way the whole process isn't as intimidating. If you or someone > you know fits into this description, encourage them to read more and > apply: http://rockymtnruby.com/scholarship > > Deadline is September 7th but we strongly encourage those interested > to apply immediately. We have limited spots available and will be > rewarding them as they come in. > > Also the conference twitter account, @rockymtnruby, tweeted the > announcement earlier and we'd appreciate you all spreading the word. > Many of these people aren't on these sort of mailing lists so outreach > is very important. > > Cheers, > Marty _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members
