Sarah Mei » scale8x http://www.sarahmei.com/blog Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SCALE 8x Slides Posted http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/02/20/scale-8x-slides-posted/ http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/02/20/scale-8x-slides-posted/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:07:13 +0000 sarahmei http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/?p=326 Yesterday I did a talk at SCALE 8x called “Moving the Needle: How SF Ruby Got to 18%.” Broadly, the topic was how to get more women into a technical community. I talked about how, specifically, we took the SF Ruby monthly meetups from 2% women to 18% women over the past year.

Short version: it was a lot of work.

A lot of people have asked us about this, though, so it seemed worth distilling. The slides don’t convey everything I talked about. In the next few weeks I’d like to try putting together a blog post that does a better job. But for now, here they are.

Update (3/6/2010): MP3 audio is now available – thanks SCALE folks! Also, I’ve posted a PDF version of the slides for those of you without flash.

Moving the Needle: How SF Ruby Got to 18%
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