Team Twitches, Team Ruby's Secret and Team LoadToCode go GOTOber (Image: Team Twitches)

Chasing the Sun

Hey, we are HyeSoo and Tehetena from team Rookies :D

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Can’t believe RGSoC is done. We’ve experienced three incredible months!

Codemotion Warsaw 2016 Conference

Summer is over! Sadly this means our summer of code is also coming to an end.

Photo taken by Patricia Arbona

Remember how we promised to announce more conferences supporting Rails Girls Summer of Code? We keep our word.

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 ...

This year’s Ruby Conference Australia was held on the Gold Coast, a vibrant and breathtaking city, known for its world famous Surfer’s Paradise — a beach and...

What is Strange Loop?

As we’re nearing the end of the program, it was also time to get the second round of our WORLD-FAMOUS conference raffle going. We’re excited to finally annou...

Well, it’s after BaRuCo. We came back refreshed, full of new energy to work. We would like to tell you about this conference very subjectively, about our imp...

On the last week(end) of July, some of us – Rails Girls Summer of Code core organisers – headed to Potsdam for JRubyConf and eurucamp. JRubyConf, a one-day c...

Last week, you sent us your conference wishlists via twitter, and the Conference Raffle Fairy Godmothers (Anika, Katrin, Sara and yours truly) sat down to – ...

We are three weeks into the program and it’s that time of the summer again for.. Yes, you’ve guessed it: our first conference raffle!

Imagine one weekend full of Open Source and then imagine spending it with the most amazing people ever! Add some imaginary electric atmosphere and that’s how...

… and The Spree Girls are going! The wonderful RubyConf Australia organizing team decided to gift our Sydney-based volunteer team, Tracy and Catherine of The...

We have raffled and re-raffled. Here are the winners of the tickets our befriended conferences decided to give away:

As promised, we have a whole new round of great-conferences-you-can-visit-for-free! This time around we have both tickets and scholarships to draw your atten...

All the students turned to Twitter, gave us their conference wishlists and the results are in! And the conference tickets go to…

Get your twitter clients ready and join the rafflemania!

Last year a number of conferences offered (team) tickets to Rails Girls Summer of Code students. A few of them even supported the students with their travel ...

We have been offered no less than 49 free tickets at some of the best Ruby conferences on 3 different continents. Behold, the conferences that so kindly spon...

Our friends at Phusion and Nedap announced on Wednesday that they’re giving away tickets to Bubbleconf to Rails Girls (Summer of Code) alumni & supporter...

Our friends at Phusion and Nedap are giving away 10 tickets to Bubbleconf to Rails Girls (Summer of Code) alumni & supporters! And YOU want one. Why? Bub...

A few days ago, we put together a conferece survival kit for you, dearest students. Now you know almost everything there is to know and we are sure, you’ll r...

Last weekend was eurucamp weekend and I sort of promised to write a recap for you summery coders. So here we go, my personal highlights and other (fun) stuff:

The first time is always special. And the time after that. And the time after that. Going to a conference - and maybe even giving a talk - can be loads of fu...

For some of us last week started like this:

They are everywhere. Just glance to the right, at the bottom or click on any other page: The wonderful, cute drawings that made my day for the last four mont...

RGSoC 2017 OSS Project Submissions (in ALL languages) are open! (gif by Ana Sofia Pinho)

Last week, teams around the world celebrated their very last day of RGSoC 2016. While we were all sad to see the Summer of Code end, we also know that for mo...

Remember how we promised to announce more conferences supporting Rails Girls Summer of Code? We keep our word.

This year we have 20 amazing teams: 40 students from all over the world of different age and origin, with different backgrounds and skills. Imagine this: 11 ...

Now that you saw a bit where Echo, RubyCats, LoadToCode, Vegemite and KaUlah work (if you missed it, the blog post is here), it’s time to show you the rest o...

Every year, our students work from the most varied places: university campuses, coworking spaces or coaching companies… Even though you can work on RGSoC fro...

We’re almost halfway through the summer, which as every year can only mean one thing: It’s time for the official RGSoC Day Off!

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 ...

Our teams meet for the first time! (Image: Ana Sofia Pinho with the help of the supervisors)

Our thank_you board is finished! Did you see the new red squares on top? :) (Image: Ana Sofia Pinho)

Only a couple of days to go until our program kicks off in 16 different locations around the globe. We want all participants to celebrate this day with us o...

Do you want more awesome news? Here we go!

We’ve had so many awesome applications this year, and picking only a few was incredibly tough; we really wish we could have had the money (and the resources)...

Our thank_you board is almost complete! (Image: Ana Sofia Pinho)

Ruby Hero Awards (Image: rubyheroes.com)

RGSoC 2016 thank_you board (Photo: Ana Sofia Pinho)

It’s a wrap!

The days are getting longer, the sun is a little more visible in the winter sky, and with spring nearing, we’re glad to announce there’s an even better reaso...

Whoops. There it was. Yesterday: The last day of Rails Girls Summer of Code 2015.

A tradition of the Rails Girls Summer of Code is to gather swag from our wonderful sponsors and send out care packages to our hardworking, dedicated particip...

As we’re nearing the end of the program, it was also time to get the second round of our WORLD-FAMOUS conference raffle going. We’re excited to finally annou...

Three months is a long time to go without a break, so we like to schedule a day off mid-program. While it’s not required to take the day off, we highly recom...

You’ve all been eagerly waiting for it and it’s finally here – the 2015 RGSoC Day-Off!

Last week, you sent us your conference wishlists via twitter, and the Conference Raffle Fairy Godmothers (Anika, Katrin, Sara and yours truly) sat down to – ...

Since July 1st our teams already wrote 320 log entries, spent more than 128 hours coding and are contributing to Open Source projects like Speakerinnen, Lotu...

We are three weeks into the program and it’s that time of the summer again for.. Yes, you’ve guessed it: our first conference raffle!

Happy Rails Girls Summer of Code Kickoff Day, everyone! ♥

Whoohoo! They said the third year will be the hardest – but in the end, we broke all records with our crowdfunding campaign. We still can’t wrap our heads ar...

It’s finally today! The day we can proudly introduce you to this year’s edition of awesomeness and Open Source coding power. Please meet the official 2015 te...

Les jeux sont faits – The chips are down! We know most of you were eagerly and almost compulsively checking your email last Friday – on the day we said we’d ...

Our application period has officially ended a few days ago; some of us (I’m looking at you, Sara and Anika) stayed up past the deadline to answer all of your...

On March 5th, we opened up our crowd funding campaign. What a ride! Before we go on and give you the full rundown of what happened in the last 25 days, we’d ...

After a few months of very diligent work on our Teams App, we’ve made preparing your application for Rails Girls Summer of Code a whole lot more straightforw...

The Rails Girls Summer of Code crowdfunding campaign is officially open! And you thought that christmas only came ONCE a year! ;) We’re opening up our campai...

Happy post-Superbowl-weekend Tuesday!

It’s real. We can’t believe it, it’s been such a wonderful journey. These were the last days of the Summer of Code!

All are repeat sponsors for second year in a row.

###GitHub and Travis CI are major supporters of Rails Girls Summer of Code

Rails Girls Summer of Code’s Bronze sponsors make up the most numerous contingent in our roll call for 2014. Listing them out doesn’t really do them justice,...

The Rails Girls Summer of Code cohort for 2014 have almost made it to the finish line of the program. Some who finished early, have now moved on, and some ar...

On August 28th, 2014, after almost two months of full-time coding, we recommended to our students that they take a day off. It was a wonderful opportunity fo...

We love coding, we really do. But we also know that during a 3-month-long, hands-on coding program (or cough cough at work if you’re coding all day cough cou...

The summer is reaching its halfway mark, so we’re hard at work thinking about how to keep supporting our students when it ends. For a handful of selected wom...

We recently announced how a bunch of awesome Tealeaf students and alumni will help this year’s Rails Girls Summer of Code participants get the answers-they-n...

The Remote Helpdesk was part of the Rails Girls Summer of Code concept right from the beginning. Coaches who are not assigned to a team (or just want to help...

Everything you ever wanted to know about volunteer teams

It’s time to celebrate! After a great spurt in the campaign and with the incredible support of our students we’re happy to announce: We are able to fund 10 s...

We’d like to thank everyone who send in an application, the quality of submissions was exceptionally high this year. The selection team had a tough 3 days de...

After 60 hours of rating over 100 applications for Rails Girls Summer of Code, we now are proud to say: we’ve made the first step. We have selected the first...

We have raised an amazing amount so far but we have so many great applications and every donation counts! We wanted a way to help raise money to get the last...

Hi there! As the end of the application process is just around the corner (May 2nd), we thought we might update you on the status of the crowdfunding campaig...

Hi there! We have made some changes to the website and we thought we would let you know!

Wow, it’s been only one week since we kicked off our crowd funding campaign and we already have so much to tell!

6wunderkinder, Envato and Springest support our Summer of Code by being Coaching Companies, a role we defined for this year’s edition as we noticed that some...

Rails Girls Summer of Code 2013 was a resounding success!

It’s Friday and we are in love: With this we are officially opening the applications for Rails Girls Summer of Code 2014!

Good news on a Monday and we want you to know it first:

So much love!

“Hey wouldn’t that be cool if our sponsors could send us stuff that we can send to the teams?” This was the beginning of our secret mission keep on coding pa...

Oh my! I still can’t believe that this crazy wonderful summer is over! Can you? For everybody who wants to help us out and give us something: Your opinion!

Last week, we presented the first five of our remarkable silver sponsors. Now you can learn more about the other half. These generous guys make RGSoC possibl...

In the lead up to the Rails Girls Summer of Code, female coders around the globe were frantically refreshing the RGSoC donate page. Everyone was talking abou...

1) An abbreviation used in Medieval Latin Documents 2) A developer-centric, developer-run company who MAKE PRODUCTS WORK 3) The nickname I gave my cat

37signals creates and maintains web-based applications for collaboration, project management, and information sharing. In their own words, they build ‘frustr...

SoundCloud is a long and dear friend of Rails Girls, especially here in Berlin.

The story of Rails Girls Summer of code is just crazy, amazing, inspiring and actually hard to believe (the idea stated only in May this year and now we are ...

##Google Open Source

Hands up, who hasn’t heard of GitHub? We probably won’t see that many raising theirs. For those who are new to all these development details, here is what Gi...

For some of us last week started like this:

What a week! We can’t even decide what to tell you first. Well, okay first things first. First, you’ll get a hug! This week from Team Unicorn ♥

Because it’s weekend, we have a very special hug for you - a mix between a crocodile hug and a dragonball-power-spell. We figure, everybody can use one of th...

Berlin is sweating in the summer heat and we find it super hard to concentrate. So today not much words. Just some really cool code for you:

It’s friday and here is a hug:

I guess you are as curious as we are about our teams, right?

It’s finally arrived! It’s 1st of July and the Summer of Code starts in 3….2….1…..

Got some spare time and a knack for PR, community management, Sponsoring or Coding? Awesome! We could use some helpful hands and can offer a wonderful summer...

image: polyvalentimago.tumblr.com It’s getting really warm outside in Berlin. And Rails Girls Summer of Code is getting closer and closer!

We are both very much thrilled and equally humbled about how Rails Girls Summer of Code over the last few weeks has grown into a huge program that is very li...

puts "Hello, Rails Girls world!"

Hello RGSoC Blog Readers!

Team XYZ has had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Codemotion conference in Berlin, and these are some of the highlights of our experience.

Team Twitches, Team Ruby's Secret and Team LoadToCode go GOTOber (Image: Team Twitches)

Team kindr3d @ Beyond Tellerrand 16

Chasing the Sun

Summing up Rails Girls Summer of Code (RGSOC) is not a simple task. True. RGSOC was an opportunity to work on an open source project, but the experience was ...

Pair Programming Session with coach Beverly. (Image Credit: Oreoluwa Akinsanmi)

Team Echo: Our RGSoC Landing

Goodbye from RubyCats(Image Credit: Izabela Komorek @izuroxx)

Hey, we are HyeSoo and Tehetena from team Rookies :D

Time to clear our board.(Image Credit: Geisa Santos)

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What accomplishments are you proud of? Patricia hacking away.(Image Credit: Melissa Fabros)

Can’t believe RGSoC is done. We’ve experienced three incredible months!

When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up. - Roger Federer

We can’t believe it’s over! Saying that this was the greatest summer of our lives would be an understatement. When we first applied for RGSoC, we never thoug...

Team Reactives with Sonic Pi Mentor - Joseph Wilk, supervisor - Ana, coaches - Arrchana, Vanchi & Stewart! (Image Credits: Our awesome supevisor: Ana)

Team Twitches at BBQ Nation! (Image Credits: Taneea's Sister)

Rails Girls Summer of Code is over. It was very intensive, with ups and downs time, but thanks to our whole team it was also very successful. For the all sum...

Trees are changing colours of their leaves, kids have started school again and coffee chains are once again selling pumpkin flavoured coffee. That’s a clear ...

The Rails Girls Summer of Code is one of the best things that happened to me. After finishing my course at the university I got an opportunity to take part ...

Codemotion Warsaw 2016 Conference

Summer is over! Sadly this means our summer of code is also coming to an end.

It has been a summer full of some happy coincidences and one we have just discovered is that apart from having a Star Wars related name like the Coding Padaw...

Hey, we are Team Rookies. Our summer story begins with great excitement and our adventure is almost ending with happy memories. For 3 months, we have delved ...

Photo taken by Patricia Arbona

…so the Rails Girls Summer of Code will come to an end!

The Miracle <3

image taken by Nikita Bhagat

Team Fedex++

Who are we?

About Us

Our Team Team Reactives with coaches Vanchi (left-most) &Arrchana (right-most). Image taken by Arrchana

Who are we?

We are silly sometimes! Left: Jeena. Right: Malisa. (photo: Malisa/Jeena)

Team Rookies and Hoodie project with RGSoC

Ready, Set, Go!

Who are we?

Team Vegemite with our coaches Tim, Kevin and Jo

Who are we? We are Naggita Keziah and Joannah Nanjekye from Kampala, Uganda. We met at a tech meetup dubbed GeekNight kampala at the former thoughtworks kamp...

Who are we? We are Patricia Arbona and Melissa Fabros, and we are based in the Bay Area of California. Patricia had lived her entire life in the Midwestern p...

RubyCats

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The Twitches in their element! (Image Credits: Humans of IIITD)

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Sherri and Anitha on the First Day of RGSOC (Image: Team MitPal 2016)

jodas at Absolventa, their coaching company (Image: Team joda)

The dreamer and the realist, Nada & Mayar. This is who we are: two girls with two completely different personalities but somehow we came together and b...

This year’s Ruby Conference Australia was held on the Gold Coast, a vibrant and breathtaking city, known for its world famous Surfer’s Paradise — a beach and...

Thank You Rails Girls Summer of Code for providing us an opportunity to work in a multicultural environment. Rails Girls Summer of Code allows to meet like-m...

What is Strange Loop?

Unfortunately the summer is over and we have to move on. Those were an amazing three months that completely changed our lives. At least we hoped so!

It is the end of an incredible summer. We improved our skills so far and attended our first conference, RubyConf Colombia. We are very grateful with the prog...

So long and (and no thanks for the externalities) goodbye! Rails Girls Summer of Code 2015 has come to an end, and, as it has always been, it has been a sad ...

Our project was to change all of the RGSoC participants lives… aka working on the RGSoC Teams App! If you paid some attention this summer, you might already ...

The Rails Girls Summer of Code program was one of the best experiences we had in our life. By the way we are Team Hackrgirls; Anjaly Elizabeth is a good fron...

“Why did we sign up for this?” “Why aren’t the test passing after all the time we put it? Sigh” “Why all these errors? But my code was running yesterday? Arr...

Shelly: So here we are. After excitedly preparing for all of this since November last year, it’s done. Finished. Over. We are no longer RGSoC students. How ...

It is incredible that three months have passed already and this code summer has ended. It seems like it was yesterday when we decided to participate in RGSoC...

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This summer we pushed, pulled, squashed, force pushed, gave lightning talks, exercised, interviewed, toured, travelled and became official core contributors ...

G’day!

Nelly and Mercy (Image: Nelly & Mercy)

Emma and Karla during the first week in the GitHub office.

###Goodbye from team DEIGirls

Rubyherzlein & The Rails Girls Summer of Code 2015

Sophia & Boryana & Andrew Radev, RailsGEnthusiasts Team (Image: Sophia & Boryana & Andrew Radev)

Project LEAP & what we’ve learned

Well, it’s after BaRuCo. We came back refreshed, full of new energy to work. We would like to tell you about this conference very subjectively, about our imp...

Hello everybody! We are Team Alpha Ruby, Ariane and Ramya - no team name pun intended ;-).

Hello World

(Image: Team Hackrgirls)

Hello, everybody! (¡Hola a todos!)

Hello! We are Angela and Lina from Barranquilla, Colombia. During our summer, we will be working on a Project which is called “Rubygems Adoption Center”. Fo...

##Introducing Exercistas! (Image: Team Exercistas)

We are Jayasi and Megha, a.k.a. Team CodeBenders. We have started our Summer of Code in Delhi, India with our coaches Kashyp, Bharti and Shobhit, mentor Erik...

Introducing team CookieMonster… err, I mean, team DEIGirls

##Introducing Team The Tremors

Who we are Hi, we are the Rubyherzlein Team! We are working out of the SoundCloud office in Berlin, and our summer project is called SoundDrop. Our team cons...

An introduction. Who we are.

Who are we?

###The Beginning of a Wonderful Journey

Introducing Team GirlsCodersWarsaw

Hello Everyone, it’s Esther and Resla working on Speakerinnen. We come from Nairobi, Kenya: The Green City Under the Sun.

Hello! We are Maren and Julia of Team Delta Quadrant. We’ll work on Diaspora*.

Hello from Aussie! We are Sarah and Vi, and together we make up the student part of Team Melbourne. We will be spending the summer working with the wonderful...

We are Maud and Roos, better known as Team Cheesy. Proud to be Dutch, we identify with our country’s best, and some argue even only, culinary treat. Greasy, ...

Hello! We are Shelly and Pilar, and together we make up the student part of Team Tessie. We will be spending the summer working with the wonderful people fro...

The Standard Librarians

About Me

About Us Yeah Mutants. We hit upon this name because we’re huge fans of X Men :-P We’re studying Information Science in our third year of engineering in Myso...

As we are both graduates from technical studies, we have first hand experience of how scarce women in technical studies and jobs are. The Rails Girls Summer ...

Who are we? Moi, we are Cathy Nangini and Qian Zhou from Helsinki, Finland. This is our first time with RGSoC and we are quite passionate about our RGSoC jou...

About Us

We are Team Omnia Extares.

Hello world, we’re team BrowserSpree. We’re working on a module to integrate the e-commerce engine Spree into BrowserCMS, a Rails content management system. ...

###About us: We are Kathi Zwick and Brigitte Markmann, two aspiring software developers based in Berlin. We met in December 2013 at our first Rails Girls Wor...

#Spree Girls Australia

Hi everyone :-) It’s time for our short introduction. Team Species+ are: Karolina Kaminska and Magdalena Niedzwiecka. Karolina was studying Hungarian langua...

Hi everybody, we are the ARIA Team and we want to say hi! My name is Melissa Torregrosa, I am 24 years old, and I’m a graduate in Computer Science. After my ...

Hello, we are Laura and Adriana, two college students from Colombia and we are the New Rosies. We met each other one year ago in a computer networks class at...

Hi, I’m Magda. This is my coding story.

We are Pallavi and Sakshi Team Diasbits from India. The name Diasbits, as we are contributing a bit to diaspora*, the privacy-aware, decentralized social net...

Hi everyone!

Hi! We’re Vyki & JZ of Team Dysania from Los Angeles, California, and we started as part-time RGSoC student volunteers on July 8. This summer, we’re web ...

We are team Highway to Rails. We chose the name because of the ACDC song “Highway to Hell”. When you replace the word “hell” with “rails”, it really sounds l...

We are Laura and Nicole, a.k.a. Team Rails Grrls. We started our Summer of Code in Mid-June at the Soundcloud HQ office in Berlin.

Hej Everbody,

It’s so hard to write a post about project management which wouldn’t make people say: ‘Hey, this is obvious!’. Still obvious solutions to problems are often ...

What better day to think about getting more women into Open Source than today - on International Women’s Day!

It’s already August and we’re now halfway through the program. This means that as a team, you’ve already had six weeks of working together, pair-programming,...

We love it when people contribute to Open Source, and hopefully someday there will be no need for a “Rails Girls Summer of Code”, or similar programs, to mak...

We love making things easy for our supporters - YOU -, which is why we’ve compiled a list to help you help us make the upcoming RGSoC great! Here are a few i...

We love coding, we really do. But we also know that during a 3-month-long, hands-on coding program (or cough cough at work if you’re coding all day cough cou...

Rails Girls Summer of Code 2013 was a resounding success!

The second annual Rails Girls Summer of Code is just around the corner! As a potential applicant, you’re probably wondering what makes a good project, worksp...

Some of our teams are still rocking their projects, some have already finished, but this doesn’t mean the coding needs to be over. There are some opportuniti...

A few days ago, we put together a conferece survival kit for you, dearest students. Now you know almost everything there is to know and we are sure, you’ll r...

The first time is always special. And the time after that. And the time after that. Going to a conference - and maybe even giving a talk - can be loads of fu...

We are so happy to announce that Tiffany Conroy poured her wisdom into this article for you. Tiffany, interaction designer and developer at Soundclo...

Our little Rails Girls Summer of Code Teams application is getting closer to actually being useful.