PrESSkits

Presskit Hello Ruby 1

• Download the Finnish presskit for Hello Ruby with editorial pictures and logos here (87MB).

• Download the English presskit for Hello Ruby with editorial pictures and logos here (87MB).

Presskit Hello Ruby 2

• Download the English presskit

• Download the Finnish presskit for Hello Ruby with editorial pictures and logos here.

Presskit Hello Ruby 3

• Download the Finnish presskit for Hello Ruby with editorial pictures and logos here.

Linda's bio

Linda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in over 260 cities. She loves Muji, Zelda Fitzgerald, software and sparkly things.

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Selected press

• In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers Atlantic (24.2.2017)

• IT Girl Telegraph (6.6.2015)

• Can this children's book help make the Internet a better place? FastCo (29.1.2014)

• Hello Ruby kids' coding book raises $185k (and counting) on Kickstarter. Guardian (27.1.2014)

• Children´s book Hello Ruby teaches 4 to 7 year olds how to code Mashable (28.1.2014)

International press

• Ein typischer Frauenberuf Freitag (7.3.2016)

• A scuola di coding con Linda Liukas Donna Moderna

• Geheime Codes, teure Juwelen Genios (25.2.2017)

• Kickstarter loves this childrens book that gets kids excited about coding FastCo (23.1.2014)

• Book That Teaches Kids to Code raises 250k on Kickstarter Wired (4.2.2014)

• Getting Girls Into Programming, One Childrens Book At A Time TechCrunch (4.2.2014)

• Koodin hengetär. Image (11/2014)

• Kodning blir en barnslek Dagens Nyheter (10.11.2014)

• Les enfants peuvent changer le monde mais il doivent apprendre à coder Nouvel Observateur (9.2.2014)

• 程式如詩優雅，讓全世界齊聲朗誦「Hello World」——專訪 Rails Girls 創辦人 Linda Liukas INSIDE.tw(30.7.2014)

Selected talks

• TED.com: Poetry of programming A 12 minute talk on technology, programming and Ruby
• Slush 2014: Storytelling, software and one Scandinavian childhood A presentation focused on the Principles of Play around Ruby.