
Community dedicated to aggregate, spread and boost Python events in Colombia
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Python efforts in Colombia
Django Girls Colombia
PyCon Colombia
Python Meetups
Django Girls Colombia
Organize free Python and Django workshops, create open sourced online tutorials and curate amazing first experiences with technology.
30-60 women build their first web application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django.
Django Girls Colombia

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Some statistics
- # of events : 7
- # of assistants: 258
- # of applicants: 1023
- # of applicant coaches: 87
- # of assistant coaches: 72
- # sponsor companies: 41
Django Girls events for 2018
- Barranquilla
- Cartagena
- Santa Marta
- Sincelejo
- Medellin
- Cucuta
- Pereira
- Bucaramanga
- Manizales
- Neiva
Sponsor levels
Gold - 300 usd
- 5 minutes lightning talk
- Company logo on website, flyers and printed posters
- Stickers or publicity of company at the venue
- Mention in radio, tv and newspaper campaigns
- Send emails to participants who allowed use of their information
- Thanks post in social networks
Silver - 200 usd
- Company logo on website, flyers and printed posters
- Publicity of company at the venue
- Mention in radio, tv and newspaper campaigns
- Thanks post in social networks
Bronze - 100 usd
- Company logo on website, flyers and printed posters
- Thanks post in social networks
Lets organize a workshop in your city!
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PyCon Colombia
2017
PyCon Colombia 2017
10 - 11 February 2017
Jacob Kaplan-Moss Django Co-Creator
David Cournapeau - Core Contributor to Numpy and Scipy
Eric Holscher - Co-founder of readthedocs and writethedocs.
Peadar Coyle - PyMC3 Contributor and Author
PyCon Colombia 2017
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2 Conference days
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209 attendees
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40 volunteers
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38 speakers
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32 talks
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6 workshops
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9 attending countries
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4 international keynote speakers
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28 speakers
- 6 workshops
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2018
PyCon Colombia 2018
9 - 10 - 11 February 2018
Daniel & Audrey Roy Greenfeld - Author at Two Scoops Press
Christine Doig Cardet - Data Scientist at Anaconda, Inc
Deborah Hanus - Machine Learning Researcher & Entrepreneur
Lorena Mesa - Software Eng. / Data Scientist at Sprout Social
Naomi Ceder- OS Dev Manager at Dick Blick Art Materials
PyCon Colombia 2018
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3 Days of conference
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+350 Attendees
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+60 Volunteers
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+ 30 Talks
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+10 Workshops
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+50 Speakers
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6 Keynote speakers
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+30 Speakers
- +10 Workshops
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PyCon Colombia 2018
Join us as city ambassador!
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Python Meetups

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- Bogotá
- Medellín
- Cali
- Bucaramanga
- Cúcuta
- Barranquilla
- Tunja
- Arauca
- Pasto
- Popayán
- Cartagena
- Pereira
- Sincelejo
- Manizales
16 Python Groups
14 Cities
1 Monthly meetup
30 People per meetup (Avg)
Colombia Medellín 1417 Medellín Python Meetup
Colombia Bogotá 1386 Django Bogotá
Colombia Bogotá 971 Bogotá Python Meetup Group
Colombia Bogotá 472 Python Cali
Colombia Bogotá 369 PyData Bogotá
Colombia Barranquilla 323 Python Barranquilla
Colombia Bucaramanga 269 Python Bucaramanga
Colombia Medellín 209 PyLadies Medellín
Colombia Santa Marta 140 Python Santa Marta
Colombia Pasto 131 Pasto Python
Colombia Cartagena 76 Python/Django CTG
Colombia Cúcuta 55 Python Cúcuta
Colombia Bogotá 52 Pyladies Bogotá
Colombia Tunja 14 Python Tunja
More than 5800 subscriptions in meetup.com!!
2nd Biggest Spanish-speaking Python Community in America
Mexico México City 1501 Chilango Django
Colombia Medellín 1417 Medellín Python Meetup
Colombia Bogotá 1386 Django Bogotá
Mexico México City 1272 Pythonista MX
Colombia Bogotá 971 Bogotá Python Meetup Group
Brazil São Paulo 969 PyData São Paulo
Peru Lima 867 Python Perú
Argentina Buenos Aires 769 Buenos Aires Python Meetup
Python Community Strategies
1. Diversity and Inclusion
2. Meetup events regularity
3. Industry - academia integration
4. Invite and welcome newcomers
5. Social media heavy presence
Django Girls workshops
Enable safe environments for women at meetup events
Diversity and Inclusion
Goal: At least once per month
Meetup events regularity
1 month
Awareness
Multidicipline talks at Meetups
Invite academic speakers at meetups
Organize meetups at universities
Industry - academia integration
Website dev ,GUI dev
Networking, System Programming
Sys Admin Automating
Data Analysis
Machine Learning
Web Scraping
Scientific & Numeric Processing
Robotics
Language processing , Image processing
Industry - academia integration
Invite members of other technology communities and embrace healthy tech discussions
Invite high school and freshmen students
Invite and welcome newcomers
Healthy tech discussions Facebook group
Share python articles Facebook group
Ask for help and guidance in Facebook group
Admins: Share articles in facebook city account. Ie, Python Cúcuta facebook page.
Broadcast: Python Colombia youtube account
Social media strong presence
Final thoughts
Why ?
Any of us can change our reality by taking massive action
Future generations
Colombia in the next 10 years
Thanks
Python Colombia status December 2017
By pythoncolombia
Python Colombia status December 2017
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