PyLadies lightning talk at SoCal Piggies on April 28, 2011. I showed the group what the local Pythonista ladies are up to. Ladies' Night recap, Intro to Python workshop inspired by Railsbridge/PyStar/Montreal Python, building friendships, helping experienced female Python devs form a support network.

1. PyLadies
Women's Python social club and
advocacy group

2. Who am I?
• Audrey Roy
• Co-Founder of Cartwheel
• Co-creator of djangopackages.com
and Packaginator framework
• Django front end + devops

3. PyLadies
• Women's Python social club and
advocacy group
• Part of it is teaching women's Intro to
Python workshops
• But we want to go beyond that

4. The PyLadies Organizers
• 7 female Python developers in LA who've
volunteered as co-organizers
• Audrey Roy
• Katharine Jarmul
• Esther Nam
• Sandy Strong
• Sophia Viklund
• Jess Stanton
• Christine Cheung

5. Recap of Python Ladies'
Night 1
• Python women's advocacy
• virtualenv
• the mod_wsgi documentation
• Django-based content management systems
• how we each got into Python development
• Homemade spaghetti, salad, garlic bread,
Porto's meat pies, wine, sparkling water,
roofdeck views on a Saturday night

6. Intro to Python Workshop
for Women
Inspired by the larger women's
programming workshop movement
• Railsbridge
• PyStar
• Montreal Python
We all know smart women. Let's
teach them Python :)

7. Goals of PyLadies
• Increase the # of women in the Python
community until we have 50% women
• Build friendships!

8. What does this mean to
the community?
• Does your company need developers?
Help us make them!
• To those with girlfriends, wives,
daughters:
If she doesn't code in Python yet,
encourage her to attend a workshop
and learn

9. Want to know more?
pyladies.com
Please pick up a flyer
and pass it on