Become a Django Girl!

Rachell 

Dan

• Tester-turned-dev
• Pythonista

• Community taught Software developer
• Djangonaut

We met at GiveCamp!

What is Django Girls?

• The organization
• Weekend Long
  • Friday install party
  • Saturday 9-5 
• 0-to-Personal blog

Our team!

What does it take?

• Venue
• Some Money
  • Doesn't have to be a lot
• Volunteers
  • Organizers
  • Coaches
• Participants
• Little bit of Python

git clone git@github.com:DjangoGirls/tutorial.git

What do you get?

• A project template
• SO MANY RESOURCES
  • Template websites
  • Stickers
• A goal to work toward
  • It scales

Why is this important?

• To empower underrepresented groups
• Inclusion strengthens our community
• Explore technology
• Community

Other ways to help

• Sponsor
  • Food/Money/Swag/Licenses/Book
• Mentor programs
• Hire Juniors
• Translate the tutorial
• Maintain the tutorial
  • Python changes!
• Maintain a community
  • Make a meetup group!
  • Take people out to meetups

Get going!

• Check us out:
  • https://djangogirls.org/grandrapids/
• https://djangogirls.org/
• https://github.com/djangogirls

@rachell_calhoun

@lindemda