KidsRuby

[Jen Myers]

Okay, so this is adorable and has cemented my interest in doing a
family or kid workshop, possibly even with KidsRuby:

http://www.blackgirlscode.com/1/post/2011/10/kidsruby-and-me.html

What do you all think?

[Joe Vonderwell]

I love it! Thanks for sharing this Jen. It's awesome to see that young people have an interest in this. Give it a go. May also help spread the word about GDI to teachers and parents. 

Today I come across some materials which referenced Ruby on Rails as a web development tool (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Is this what you use? Was that in the Ruby class that I did not take?

Joe Vonderwell

> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:38:36 -0700
> Subject: [GirlDevelopIt Cbus] KidsRuby
> From: jmy...@girldevelopitcbus.com
> To: girl-develop...@googlegroups.com

[Raju Gandhi]

Hey Jen,

That looks awesome! I am not sure how you are approaching this - word-of-mouth? We could try talking to families that we know (I don't have one so I guess I am not the demographic here :D) ...

How can I help?

Raju

[Jen Myers]

Ha, I'm not sure how I'm approaching this either. :) It's something we've talked a lot about, but I've got so much on my plate it hasn't gained any traction quite yet. I'm thinking the best course of action might be to just set up a workshop some weekend. If anyone is interested in taking a larger organizational role in this, please feel free to jump in and I'll help set it up. Otherwise, I probably won't be able to put something together until after we get our next round of classes started after the new year.

-- 
Jen Myers
jmy...@girldevelopitcbus.com

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[Carl Tracy]

>Otherwise, I probably won't be able to put something together until after we get our next round of classes started after the new year.

That's probably a good thing anyway. I don't feel it's something we should attempt during the holidays, too much craziness and too much stress. We had our "holiday dinner" last year in late February. It was a big hit. There was enough time for people to de-stress and there's a lull in activity between mid January to March.

FWIW I have no problem helping with the organizing. Which chapter did the family event? It's eluding me. Definitely thing it's worth talking to other organizations that have done this.

- Carl

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[Kim Hamper]

GDI Ottawa - they put on a Scratch programming event: http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Ottawa/events/31343152/

I am also always willing to help. :)

Kim