Please RSVP at this link, Location is IHUB:
Ruby Nuby has won a grant from British Airways to see about
bringing our program to Nairobi. Come learn about Ruby Nuby and how we
plan to:
- Create an environment that allows all to to succeed in a collaborative, cooperative manner.
- Train the next generation of web developers and tech entrepreneurs in Nairobi,
- Train disadvantaged and at-risk youths and fund their training
- Fund startup companies and attract additional funding for your companies.
- Economically develop the arts.
- Change the educational system from a pay forward model where one
incurs debt without a guarantee of a job to a payback model where one
collaborates with and contributes to a community and is placed in a
career.
- Empower women to succeed in technology and create incentives for men to help women do so.
A 25-minute presentation Ruby Nuby and it's non-profit arm, Agile
Activism, followed by a Question and Answer session. Afterwards, we
will brainstorm on how we can best take advantage of the 500kg of
sponsored shipping to Nairobi from New York that we have obtained. We
will use this sponsorship to import the computer gear necessary to set
up our program. We just need the community support to make it happen. By
using VolunTourism, we will attract the world's best developers and
business leaders to come guest teach/lecture in Nairobi and then they
will go on Safari which will economically develop the region's tourism
industry.
The mission of Ruby Nuby is to provide an environment that
facilitates immersive learning by a Community of Contributors(TM) who
contribute, learn and succeed by collaborating, cooperating and
supporting each other. We work to promote a path to success where equal
access, social justice, equability, diversity and sustainability are
embraced.
I have 2 very recently released Ruby on Rails books and a new
netbook that will be Ruby Nuby Nairobi Community owned to start a Ruby
Nuby/Ruby on Rails/Tech study group here in Nairobi.
Map to IHUB:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100420412648987917911.00047def651452cf80a23&ll=-1.296147,36.794243&spn=0.012871,0.021415&z=15&source=embed
Thank you:)
If you have questions, please email Malcolm Arnold at MalcolmArnoldNYC at gmail.com
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namaste,
Malcolm Arnold
RubyNuby, Founder
Thank you to everyone who voted for Ruby Nuby to win a grant from British Airways. We won a trip to London, Uganda and Kenya. We are going to see what they are doing with open source learning and mobile devices. Our winning 2-minute elevator pitch is below.