Our 2020 Sponsors
Rails Girls Summer of Code helps bring more diversity into Open Source, by subsidising programming newcomers to work on an Open Source project of their choice. This is only possible due to the generosity of our amazing sponsors.
Find details about our sponsor packages here. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to email us.
Partner Companies
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Travis CI is a hosted continuous integration service created in 2011 to serve the Open Source community from which it began. Integrated with GitHub, Travis CI offers first class support to many programming languages including Python, Go, PHP, Java, C++, and Ruby. Travis CI also launched Travis Foundation, a non-profit organization which aims to make Open Source a diverse and inclusive place. One of Travis Foundation’s main efforts is Rails Girls Summer of Code which helps individuals from underrepresented groups begin their careers in programming.
Sponsor in:
- 2013
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Trailblazer Sponsors
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Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Built with Rails and JavaScript, it can be used as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more! We're huge fans of the Rails Girls Summer of Code program and would love to help them bring more diversity into Open Source and make it a more inclusive place for everyone.
Sponsor in:
- 2018
- 2020
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Basecamp is the world's #1 project management tool. We make it easy for people in different roles with different responsibilities to communicate and work together. Basecamp is proud to support RGSoC 2020 because we believe in fostering a supportive space for women in the open source community. Ruby on Rails is the heart and soul of Basecamp, and we wouldn't exist without contributions from people like Rails Girls!
Sponsor in:
- 2013
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Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 175,000 certification holders, it's the world's first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners. We promote the use of open source by elevating the people who work with it. And we'd love to see more women and diversity in IT. That's why we love Rails Girls Summer of Code!
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Buildkite allows your team to build any test infrastructure they wish. Install the modern, light-weight build agent to run as many build jobs as you wish, and get deep integration with Github, Github Enterprise, Slack and Docker. We’re excited to help Rails Girls Summer of Code provide a diverse range of students the opportunity to work, learn, have fun and contribute to Open Source.
Sponsor in:
- 2015
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Pioneer Sponsors
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Carbon Five is a longtime member and supporter of the Rails community. With locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chattanooga, and New York, Carbon Five enjoys hosting and providing mentorship at hack nights, tech talks, and workshops. They are excited to sponsor the Rails Girls Summer of Code and help pave the path for young women in technology.
Sponsor in:
- 2014
- 2015
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Bitcrowd is a Berlin-based software agency with a strong focus on quality, client-interaction and people. We care about the community and are happy to support RGSoC in diversifying tech!
Sponsor in:
- 2017
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Kickstarter's mission is to help bring creative projects to life. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we measure our success as a company by how well we achieve that mission, not by the size of our profits. We empower artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, coders, hackers, and other creators to find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality-and we've seen that diverse teams are key to making strong creative work. We value diversity on our own team and we support Rails Girls Summer of Code to encourage diversity throughout the tech community.
Sponsor in:
- 2020
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Malwarebytes proactively protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware and exploits that escape detection by traditional solutions, giving users the freedom to live malware-free. Malwarebytes is deeply invested in the developer community and believe brilliant code can change the world. That's why we're proud to support the Rails Girls Summer of Code, its participants, and its mission.
Sponsor in:
- 2014
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Innovator Sponsors
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Honeybadger is the best exception monitoring service on the planet — in fact, it’s so awesome, you’ll want to get more errors in your application just so you can use it more! Built on Rails, it helps developers deliver great experiences to their users. We at Honeybadger love the open source community, and we are happy to sponsor RGSoC to help make that community even better.
Sponsor in:
- 2013
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INNOQ is a software consultancy and delivers successful software solutions, infrastructure and business models. We value innovative thinking and a passion for software development. We are a supporter of Rails Girls Summer of Code since 2013 because we want to help increase diversity in the tech industry and the Open Source community.
Sponsor in:
- 2013
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Founded in 2009, Wooga has become one of the most popular developers of casual mobile games in the world. Based in Berlin, employees from around the world develop high quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience. Wooga's aim is to play a memorable and positive part in people's lives and create joyful moments they look forward to playing everyday. Find out more at www.wooga.com.
Sponsor in:
- 2013
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The Fedora Project is a community of people working together to build a free and open source software platform and to collaborate on and share user-focused solutions built on that platform. Or, in plain English, we make an operating system and we make it easy for you do useful stuff with it.
Sponsor in:
- 2018
- 2020
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NEW WORK SE offers a wide range of brands, products and services for a better working life. By doing so, NEW WORK SE is continuing its success story that reaches back almost 16 years. The professional network was founded as openBC and has since evolved into NEW WORK SE by democratising professional networks in German-speaking countries. The company changed its name to XING in 2006 and then to NEW WORK SE in 2019. This most recent name change reflects the company's commitment to a better working life as the New Work movement represents the main driver of all the company's undertakings.
Sponsor in:
- 2020
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The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use and development of Linux. openSUSE cares about the Free and Open Source Software community and supports Rails Girls Summer of Code because the FOSS community is a more vibrant community with female coders.
Sponsor in:
- 2016
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Planet Argon is a Portland, Oregon-based agency that focuses on existing Ruby on Rails applications. We support companies through ongoing app support and maintenance, Rails upgrade consulting, and more. As an active member of the Rails ecosystem since 2004, we're excited to give back to the community through Rails Girls Summer of Code.
Sponsor in:
- 2016
- 2020
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Cobot is the leading management platform for coworking spaces around the world. We value diversity in all aspects of our team and believe in the need to make the tech industry more representative; that's why we're proud to support RGSoC in their mission to make Open Source more diverse.
Sponsor in:
- 2017
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Softwire is a bespoke software design and development company with offices in London, Manchester and Cambridge. Our brilliant staff have a passion for technology and Open Source (we're keen contributors to 24 Pull Requests) and we're excited to help Rails Girls Summer of Code support women following those same passions.
Sponsor in:
- 2016
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Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch open source project, Elastic provides a software stack for developers to make massive amounts of structured and unstructured data available and to utilize real-time insights to power mission critical applications for search, logging, analytics, and more. By focusing on scalability, ease-of-use, and ease-of-integration, Elastic’s products — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Cloud power many of the world’s leading mobile, social, consumer and business applications, and to date have achieved more than 55 million cumulative downloads. Elastic is backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and NEA with headquarters in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California, and offices and employees around the world. To learn more, visit www.elastic.co.
Sponsor in:
- 2015
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In-kind Sponsors
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Sticker Mule is the fastest and easiest way to buy custom printed products. Thousands of people trust us to make kick ass stickers, labels, magnets, badges & more. Order in seconds and get free online proofs, free shipping and super fast turnaround. We love the open source community, and we're happy to help Rails Girls Summer of Code program to bring more diversity into it!
Sponsor in:
- 2020
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kiuwan is a software as a service (SaaS) Static Application Security (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool specializing in software analytics, quality and security measurement and management for a wide range of software languages and normative standards.
Sponsor in:
- 2020
Sponsorship Guidelines
Rails Girls Summer of Code is here to support women on their way into Open Source.
Please see our Sponsorship Guidelines for further information on how we stand behind our values.