railsgirls summer of code 2014 at eurucamp

RGSoC Team Omnia Extares!

http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/

http://diasporafoundation.org/

RGSoC Team Omnia Extares!http://omniaextares.blogspot.de/

Rails Girls Summer of Code offers three-months full time scholarships to pairs of Rails Girls students, supported by coaches. This community-driven initiative is about learning by doing — expand the knowledge and coding skills by contributing to a great Open Source project.


is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network that is based upon the free Diaspora software.

Diaspora consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods) which interoperate to form the network. As of March 2014, there are more than 1 million Diaspora accounts.


The team

Utah – her exposure to coding was using MatLab for an Ecological Modeling. After RailsBridge workshop she focused on web development. Community: RoR

Lyz – Archaeologist, now digging into coding, Rails Community drew her in, interested in open source community, and in helping to even out the gender ratio in scientific and engineering professions

Renée – as coach

Lisa & Carolina as mentors

D* community


Expectations

„We are expecting to learn a lot and have a great summer“


Daily work

● We meet everyday from 1:00 to 6:00 and also work on our own in the mornings and evenings.

● We are working in the NIRD office so Renée is available to coach us when she is here.

● We have been meeting with GoToMeeting when she is traveling.

● All of the NIRD staff has been helpful and are happy to answer questions. Kerri has been available on campfire.


BloggingOne of the recommendations done by RGSoC is to write a blog, where the experience and knowledge of SoC is shared, it gives organizers an idea of the evolution of the students and as a student is a good way to fix concepts learned.


Every now and then

Online chat with mentors

Take part in D* IRC channel


First feelings

● The project is more complex than we expected so progress sometimes feels slow but we are learning a lot of “real-life” lessons and making progress.

● We are enjoying learning together and getting to know each other, our coaches, our mentors and fellow diaspora* developers.


Conclusion

Great oportunity for women to join open source community :-)

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