Conferences 2016
It’s amazing to see how many people all over the world support Rails Girls Summer of Code. Sponsors, coaches, mentors, supervisors decided to play a part in bringing diversity to IT and help us make our program work. But it doesn’t stop there. Many tech conferences have a hand in RGSoC too.
We encourage our students to attend conferences as part of their scholarship program. We believe that a novice coder can benefit a lot from a good conference, be it learning new things, making new contacts or getting in touch with a larger community.
This year we decided to experiment and don’t make a conference raffle; instead we asked students about conferences they were most interested in and tried to make their wishes come true.
We are very grateful to the conferences and their amazing organizers, who support us this year. It takes lots of efforts to organize a good conference and make it accessible to everyone. We appreciate this a lot!
Here are some of the conferences which generously granted free tickets to our students this year.
Codemotion WARSAW – Team KaUlah
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Date: September 15-16, 2016 Location: Warsaw, Poland Twitter: @CodemoWarsaw Interested in attending this conference too? Contact us for getting 20% off promo code. |
The StrangeLoop – Teams JaM and B’More Stunners
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Date: September 15-17, 2016 Location: St. Louis, MO, US Twitter: @strangeloop_stl |
EuRuKo – Teams RubyCats and joda
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Date: September 23-24, 2016 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Twitter: @euruko |
RubyConf Brazil – Team Periféricas
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Date: September 23-24, 2016 Location: São Paulo, Brazil |
GoTo Copenhagen – Team Rookies
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Date: October 3 - 6, 2016 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Twitter: @GOTOcph Interested in attending this conference too? Contact us for getting 10% off promo code or getting involved as a conference volunteer. |
Connect.Tech – Team MitPal
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Date: October 20-22, 2016 Location: Atlanta, US Twitter: @connect_js |
RubyConf Portugal – Teams Ruby’s Secret and LoadToCode
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Date: October 27-28, 2016 Location: Braga, Portugal Twitter: @rubyconfpt Interested in attending this conference? Contact us for getting a promo code. |
RubyConf Australia – Team Vegemite
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Date: February 9-10, 2017 Location: Melbourne, Australia Twitter: @rubyconf_au Interested in attending this conference, contributing to the diversity ticket fund or giving a talk? Contact us for more details. |
Didn’t find yourself in the list? Exhale! This is not the whole story yet. More conferences are coming soon! 