#pyladies

[colorfularts]

Yeah PyLadies!… Yeah PyLadies!

[alexandre-nasiasene-gomes]

#cpbsb3 #pyladies https://www.instagram.com/p/BzH5S_wjbKy/?igshid=1aveq2qaeknl9

[alexandre-nasiasene-gomes]

#campusparty #cpbsb2019 #campusparty2019 #pyladies (em Estadio Nacional Mane Garricha) https://www.instagram.com/p/By-D-KAjoOP/?igshid=1pskg5z1i12ar

[alexandre-nasiasene-gomes]

#campusparty #cpbsb2019 #campusparty2019 #pyladies (em Estadio Nacional Mane Garricha) https://www.instagram.com/p/By-CsH_jbSJ/?igshid=xet6o4jgc70h

[jecfindsaplace]

Happy to be a part of this event. Pycon PH 2018 happening now. 🐍 #pyconph2018 . . . . . #pythonprogramming #Pycon #pyladies #womenwhocode (at iACADEMY)

[pfctdayelise]

PyLadies picks at PyConAU

The schedule for PyCon Australia 2016 is now up. Here’s some PyLadies picks to look out for!

FRIDAY

11:10 (Science & Data miniconf): Building brains by Paula Sanz-Leon

11:10 (Education seminar): Teaching Python with Minecraft by Digital K

11:50 (DjangoConAU): Search-First Writing for Developers by Heidi Waterhouse

14:20 (Education seminar): Teaching geometry using Logo/Python turtle module, or how to sneak programming into maths class by Vivian Li

15:00 (Science & Data miniconf): Using Jupyter notebooks to develop and share interactive data displays by Ioanna Ioannou

16:10 (Science & Data miniconf): Big data biology for pythonistas: getting in on the genomics revolution by Darya Vanichkina

16:50 (Education seminar): Exploring Kivy in the classroom - GUI and App development for Python by Amanda Hogan

16:50 (Science & Data miniconf): A Girls Guide To Growing A Moustache with Python by Heidi Baxter

SATURDAY

11:10: Tutorial: Technical Blogging for Python Programmers by Thursday Bram

11:10: The Power ⚡️ and Responsibility 😓 of Unicode Adoption ✨ by Katie McLaughlin

14:20: I wish I learnt that earlier! by Rachel Bunder

15:00: Imposter Syndrome by Bianca Gibson

Conference dinner - invited speaker Solange Cunin of Quberider

SUNDAY

11:50: From Humanities to Tech: How a Religion PhD came to be learning Python by Lauren Bernauer

11:50: Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions by VM (Vicky) Brasseur

11:50: Reproducible Research in Python by Jodie Burchell

13:40: Releasing Calendar-Versioned Software by Amber Brown

15:00: Turning stories into websites by Donna Benjamin

15:00: Functional Programming for Pythonistas by Bianca Gibson

15:00: Mental Health in Development by Eloise Macdonald-Meyer

The schedule isn’t finalised yet, so some times may change, and this is not necessarily comprehensive. But there’s definitely going to be some tough room choices. PyCon Australia is 12-16 August at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Hope to see you there!

[pfctdayelise]

Inviting women to your Melbourne tech event

(Adapted from an email I wrote. Seems a shame to write for an audience of 1.)

So you want to increase the number of women at $MELBOURNE_EVENT. (Let’s assume you understand why a Code of Conduct is important, you’ve got one in place and you’re prepared to enforce it.) Can you offer sponsorship, or discounted/free tickets to your events? Can you offer childcare or take other steps to make your events more (explicitly) friendly to women? I don't know if it's easy to organise but it might be interesting to arrange a showing of a doco about women in tech such as CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap or GTFO.

To find women, a good start would be building relationships with the founders/attendees of women-in-tech groups. Some events allow men to attend, either solo or as the guest of a woman. I'm running PyLadies Melbourne, so if someone said to me “I have a discount voucher code for my event for your members”, I would probably pass it on if it seemed relevant and had a CoC.

Here are some other Melb WIT groups I know of: Startup Victoria's Female Founders group is good. Friendly Getting-Shit-Done kind of vibe. Skews more business than tech as the name suggests. Girl Geek Academy is running the #SheHacks weekend hackathon in 2 weeks! The same people are behind Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne. Women Who Code I haven't been to, but they seem pretty active. Ditto Code Like a Girl which really exploded in publicity the last couple of years. The League of Extraordinary Women is (much) more business than tech focused but they might be worth a look. Their annual event is coming up late August. There is also at least one women-focused coworking space in Melbourne - One Roof.

Do you have a favourite women-in-tech Melbourne/Victoria focused group that I’ve left off the list, or other tips to increase female participation in your group? Let me know!