I wonder if there is Anything like this in the Atlanta area, if there isn't, then I think it would be a great idea, there is a very vibrant rails community here, lot's of startup activity, mentoring programs, incubators and accelerators, and the number of recruiters in the ruby meetup is almost larger than the number of developers, if I wasn't too busy doing my own things I would have opened a program here, cost of living is very low and salaries are not that far from NY / SF (buying power is much, much higher, and housing is pretty cheap) so more and more companies move things to the area. If anyone reads this and plans to open a similar program and can allow themselves to be geographically flexible, I would have Georgia on my mind.