{"id":197,"date":"2009-10-15T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-10-15T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:16:48","slug":"workshop-to-be-webcast-thanks-to-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/2009\/10\/15\/workshop-to-be-webcast-thanks-to-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop to be Webcast thanks to Sponsors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gender and Technology committee would like to thank all of our generous sponsors who are making this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women\/\">Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women<\/a> possible. \u00a0Thanks to them, attendees needn&#8217;t leave the workshop in search of coffee and food. \u00a0But more\u00a0importantly, we will be webcasting the event live! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/ruby-on-rails-workshop-for-women\/webcast\/\">More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While all our sponsors were enthusiastic about contributing towards childcare costs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2004\/09.16\/05-bigpic.html\">Julia Ashmun <\/a>was our sole individual contributor earmarking her donation to waive referral fees for attendees in need of sitter services.<\/p>\n<p>Our first sponsor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hashrocket.com\/\">Hashrocket<\/a> has got to be one of the coolest dev shops on the planet. \u00a0If only because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desimcadam.com\/\">Desi Mcadam<\/a> works there, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.devchix.com\/2009\/03\/24\/ada-lovelace-day-finding-ada\/\" target=\"_blank\">DevChix<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks for all your support, Desi!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineyard.com\/\">EngineYard<\/a> who just raised 19 Million with new investors.  Nice to hear good karma coming back to good people.<\/p>\n<p>We also send thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\">GitHub<\/a>, <em>the<\/em> most popular Git hosting site. \u00a0Brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/logicalawesome.com\/\">Logical Awesome<\/a>. \u00a0Don&#8217;t you just love that name?<\/p>\n<p>And lastly we are grateful to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/railsbridge.org\/\">RailsBridge<\/a> for inspiring these workshops and reaching out to individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much!! \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait to meet everyone tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gender and Technology committee would like to thank all of our generous sponsors who are making this weekend&#8217;s Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women possible. \u00a0Thanks to them, attendees needn&#8217;t leave the workshop in search of coffee and food. \u00a0But more\u00a0importantly, we will be webcasting the event live! \u00a0More details here. While all our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","p1","y2009","m10","d15","h10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/genderandtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}