[Ruby] memcached-like Ruby+Erlang implementation

[Laurel Fan]

On 5/21/07, shane becker <veganstraightedge at gmail.com> wrote:
> maybe we could do something as a group in seattle to get more women
> into ruby/rails. maybe some free training sessions for women only.
> kind like the one that dave thomas and crew do. a one day thing where
> we assume nothing. start at the beginning and crash course them
> through to a working rails app by the end of the day. we could rotate
> who's 'teaching' and have others roaming around to help one on one.

I wasn't at RailsConf so I have no idea what you're talking about (I
probably don't want to know).  I'm surprised that the gender balance
was good, I heard it was the usual single digit percentage of women.
But then my view is skewed because I can't go to a technology related
event without altering the gender balance by 20-infinity%.

I'm glad that there's enthusiasm for improving the gender balance here
and in tech in general.  If you want to get women's point of view on
that, this document is a good start:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/howto.html

One bit of feedback from me -- women may be a bit skeptical of a group
of unfamiliar men asking them to do something because they want to
meet women.  If you haven't already, you might want to start off by
talking with your female friends/co-workers to see if there's interest
on that end.

-- 
Laurel Fan
http://blog.gorgorg.org