Django Girls: stories of teaching Python and Django to thousands of women

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Cześć

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Ola Sitarska

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Dori Czapari

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Justyna Kałużka

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Josie Zec

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Josie Zec

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Emily Karungi

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@olasitarska Lacey Williams

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Lacey Williams The Django Girls community is supportive, receptive, generous, and grateful. Their encouragement has, in three months, turned me from a lurker and re-tweeter to an active participant in the Django community, and I am so grateful to be part of this organization.

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Lacey Williams (I’m actually tearing up typing this.)

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Story time

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Yet another guy at a conference “So, are you here because of your boyfriend?”

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Random guy at another random meetup “For a girl, you’re really great at Computer Science.”

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Some guy at some tech meetup “Hey girl, have you heard this joke that women can program.. a washing machine. Hahaha, haha, ha.”

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Ola & me @ Django Girls NYC

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2 things

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Get People Excited!

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Build Community

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Sisterhood

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53 643 people read our tutorial

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53 643 people read our tutorial

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53 643 people read our tutorial

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1 225 women attended our events

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9 now work as developers! (at least)

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how we grow Django Girls

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make something people love 1 1

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contagious enthusiasm 2 2

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open source everything 3 3

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scalibility! 4 4

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keep it fun & friendly 5 5

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go the extra mile 6 6

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Lacey Williams, Portland organizer Django Girls has seriously been career-changing for me. Honestly.