This is a great idea, thanks to Hilary P:

The discount code can be found at this link.

Gloria

Finished the panel discussion a little while ago and several conversations since then and now that I am at a computer I wanted to quickly post about it.

I was very nervous to begin with but all in all I think it went well. We tried to hit on some things that we feel would help with getting more women into the Rails Community specifically as well as in the development world period. We only gave 5 minutes to the CouchDB talk mostly because we personally (Myself, Sarah and Lori) would like to move on. I did tell David Hanson to please keep his mouth shut next time but I did that in a light-hearted way to try and lighten the mood a bit. I hope he took it that way.

My biggest whoops was that I actually said and believed I didn’t know Matt but after the talk he came over and pointed out that I DID indeed know him. In fact, we have had a very lengthy conversation about women in development in the past (I do remember him and did as soon as I connected his face with his name). Anyway I felt like a jackass.

I want to do a more lengthy recap of the whole panel and the various discussions that took place before and after but for now I would like a reprieve. I am a bit on the drained side and if I tried to cover everything just now, I wouldn’t do a very good job. So give me a day or two to get my write up out.. maybe Sarah and Lori will have more energy to do the post than I do just now.

I do want to say thank you to everyone who came to the panel. Including all the Ruby/Rails big wigs.

Cheers
Desi

Even though I am a Python developer, this made me happy:

http://railsbridge.org/

We’ve been fortunate to have an outstanding, welcoming Python community driving the tone and the quality of events from PyCon, down to the statewide and local user groups. We don’t yet have a need for such a bridge group, and I hope we never need one. But it’s great to see one form quickly where it’s needed, and to see familiar names associated with it. More power to you.

Gloria