Rails Girls Pune

The aim is to give the right tools to women for understand technology. Rails Girls does this by providing a great first experience on building the Internet.

Rails Girls was founded at the end of 2010 in Helsinki. Originally intended as a one-time event. Now it's been continued all over the world by several local chapters.

Rails Girls events are non-profit. Participants don’t need any previous knowledge about programming and there are no age limitations. All the participants need are a laptop and some fine curiosity.

The event includes a lot of small group work and short focused talks on programming, design, and the web. No panel discussions or podium talks - the spirit should be informal and hands-on. The more you can remove abstractions and add inclusivity, the better.

Rails Girls Philosophy:

• Show spark, and personality and keep in mind the big picture. Explain, repeat and always tie what you’re telling into a larger context.
• The Internet was made by people and it doesn’t break by a little tinkering. Continuously show the human side: encourage coaches to talk about open source communities, their programming idols, and their aspirations.
• Copy-pasting rules. Programming per se isn’t central - you can’t really learn to speak Chinese in one day, in a similar manner you can only learn the basic vocabulary and expressions in coding. The goal of every event is to make something visible!
• Girls run this world! But also women, ladies, and even boys are allowed in. More than semantics we’re interested in a mindset. Both founders were born in the Spice Girls era, they don’t see the word girl as condescending or cutesy-cute.