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24 alternatives to RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE

Getting more women into Open Source!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RAILS GIRLS SUMMER OF CODE launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Glassbreakers▲186

   A peer mentorship community for professional women

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Hack Club▲182

   Free and open source high school coding clubs 👊💥

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   CodeGophers▲293

   Your personal army of programmers

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Rails Girls▲3

   RoR workshops for girls

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Beautiful Open▲132

   Beautiful sites for Open Source projects

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Flowhub▲85

   Let's Make Code More Playful (Beta Open)

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The New Twitter Developers▲232

   An entirely new experience for docs and developer resources

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Developer Ipsum▲110

   Lorem for nerds

   2021 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Fosshub▲79

   An open source for free and open source tools

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Ruby on Rails Podcast #204: Money and open source▲81

    Sean and Kyle talk the economics of open source software.

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Gradberry▲119

    Curated + code-verified software engineering talent

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Gitter▲131

    free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub

    2014 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Startup Tapes #029 - Girl Develop It▲60

    Why teaching people how to code matters

    2017 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Swift Devs▲101

    A community for developers and students of Swift

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Steamrolers▲97

    Community for discussing gender/race/age inequality in tech

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    STEAMrole▲93

    Talent marketplace for tech's gender & diversity gap

    2014 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Changelog - CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek▲57

    How to help more people discover software development

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Code Mill▲85

    A marketplace for pull requests

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Ruby on Rails Podcast - 202: Behind the scenes at Product Hunt▲98

    Launch of podcasts, API-first, React.js and Heroku

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    This Developing Story - 34: Rails Works Well Enough▲56

    talking about a blog post complaining about Rails

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Software Engineering Daily — The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson▲67

    DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Traction - #13: More Women. Fewer Trolls. Better Internet.▲72

    Sandi's story creating a member-only, troll-free network

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Hacking UI podcast #11 - Turning our side project into a full time gig▲62

    1 month in, and launching The Side Project Accelerator

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hello Tech Pros: How To Recruit Software Developers Who Code Like Artists▲54

    AB Periasamy on team culture and open source

    2016 · its alternatives →

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