Django Girls 1st Birthday - Thank you!

Last week at EuroPython 2015 was an amazing experience. Apart from having an honor to open the conference with a keynote I gave with Ola, we celebrated Django Girls 1st Birthday.

It was awesome! 🎉✨💗

If someone would tell us a year ago what the next year will bring, we would not believe them. Django Girls grew from being a small workshop organized by two people, to great, dynamic, driven and extremely open community with more than 140 organizers all over the world, more than 110 contributors, almost 550 coaches and more than 1600 women who learned abour Django at our workshops.

Django Girls Birthday party

We would not be oursevles if we missed opportunity to celebrate our first birthday. We planned to have a picnic on Tuesday, 21st July - the exact date of the very first Django Girls workshop - but we ended up postponing it to Thursday (23rd July) because of weather.

We were surprised to see how many people joined to celebrate with us! We thought that no more than 20-25 people would come, but we end up with more than 50 wonderful people!

If you want to see how our party looked like, you can check out our Django Girls 1st Brthday Party album and see a short video, when we sang “Happy Birthday”! The weather was wonderful and we stayed in a park till 3 a.m. listening to music, eating cupcakes and playing board games.

Thank you!

We prepared for you a little summary of all of wonderful things that we heard from you this past year. Check: 🌟🌟🌟Love Django Girls 🌟🌟🌟.

Thank you for all the 💖 and ✨ we received from you in last year! You are amazing!

We would also like to thank Divio for helping our team to come to EuroPython and celebrate Django Girls Birthday! In last year Divio sponsored multiple Django Girls events and together with Lincoln Loop, Elastic and Sentry they’re our global Django Girls supporter. Thank you for believing in us!