Django Girls in Rio Grande do Sul in 2018
This blog post was written by Renata. Thank you, Renata :)
A little over a year ago I wrote here about the challenge our regional PyLadies community had set for 2018: to organize Django Girls workshops in other cities besides Porto Alegre (which had already hosted three workshops). Now I’m back to report on it.
To recap, as we had announced back then:
- We began 2018 with our traditional Django Girls Porto Alegre 2018. It happened on 23rd - 24th March 2018 with 402 registrations and 38 participants. See our pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157693943243931
- Django Girls Santa Maria happened on April 6th and April 7th, 2018. https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157666032447577
- With 65 participants (plus 6 kids), Django Girls Canoas happened on 4th-5th May 2018. Check out the pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157695322769571
As we had planned, we also had:
- Django Girls Bento Gonçalves: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157694821163112
- Django Girls Caxias do Sul #2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157697742395962
But it didn’t stop there!
On the second semester of 2018, we had two more Django Girls, even happening on the same day, in Rio Grande do Sul:
- Django Girls Passo Fundo happened on 29th September 2018 https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157672048567217
- Django Girls Novo Hamburgo happened on 28th and 29th September 2018. https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangogirls/sets/72157697742395962
Last October, during PythonBrasil[14] (the national Python conference) Andressa, from Pyladies Porto Alegre, talked a bit about all the Django Girls in Rio Grande do Sul in the talk “PyLadies e Django Girls promovendo a diversidade na tecnologia - Pyladies Brasil” (PyLadies and Django Girls promoting diversity in technology). The video (in Portuguese) can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2syVuMQqrQ
I personally think one of the best things that came out of having these many workshops in the region was that they made it possible for former attendees to start contributing to the Python community by returning to the event as coaches and helping other women; and for the coaches to also contribute, by becoming new organizers.
I believe I speak for all of us when I say it was definitely a challenge to take on so many events. I also think it was a great opportunity for all of us to learn a lot about organizing events, about creating welcoming environments (and to prepare things for reuse by new organizers) and to learn about ourselves along the way.
For 2019, there are four workshops being planned already! Django Girls Santana do Livramento (February 2019), Django Girls Pelotas (April 2019), Canoas #2 (May 2019) and Caxias do Sul (August 2019).
The organizers certainly would like to thank all the sponsors who made all these Django Girls possible, in particular, the main sponsors who supported more than one workshop: The Python Software Foundation, Github, Elastic and ThoughtWorks.
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