Ep. 123 - Rails Girls Summer of Code (Laura Gaetano)
Before becoming a developer, Laura had a number of job titles, including music blogger, DJ, and maid. But it was a Rails Girls workshop that brought her back to the world of web that she fell in love with many years ago. Now, as a manger at the Travis Foundation, she gets to help introduce other women to tech through the Rails Girls Summer of Code, one of the many initiatives she runs. She tells us more about what it’s like to be a scholar in the program, the power of doing meaningful work on open source projects, and how she reconnected with the web and became a developer.
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Google Summer of Code
Women Who Code
Exercism.io
Discourse
Fund Club
Travis CI
Travis Foundation
Codeland Conf
Codeland 2019
Laura Gaetano
Laura Gaetano is a web developer, designer and artist from Italy. She runs the Ruby Usergroup and Pyladies chapter in Vienna, Austria as well as Rails Girls Summer of Code, a global initiative to bring more women into tech by offering them paid scholarships to work on Open Source projects.
Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation (Interview)
Adam and Jerod talk to Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees about Rails Girls Summer of Code, Travis Foundation, fundraising, supporting open source through grants, and ways the community is showing their support of diversity in tech.
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Show Notes:
Anika Lindtner (langziehohr) on Twitter
Floor Drees (FloorDrees) on Twitter
Floor “How I feel about being ‘on’ The Changelog later today…” and here’s the original tweet
Rails Girls
Rails Girls Summer of Code
Rails Girls SoC (RailsGirlsSoC) on Twitter
The Travis CI Blog: Travis CI and Rails Girls Summer of Code
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Travis Foundation - Grants
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