Inspiring women to fall in love with programming
summary
Django Girls runs one-day free workshops with a standardized tutorial, coach manual and a free city website and email, and it reports 11,965 attendees across 458 workshops in 80 countries and 347 cities. Workshops pair participants in threes with a coach, and follow-ups seed local Python communities and PyCons (examples: Harare growth, Kumasi jump from 8 to 35 attendees). A 600‑respondent survey finds 21% now developers and most remain active learning or organizing.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Who are you
- 1:49What is your goal
- 2:37What do you do
- 2:58What do you promote
- 3:36How did we start
- 4:15Since 2014
- 4:57Impact
- 8:09How can you get involved
- 8:48Get involved by organizing an event
- 9:37Jungle Girls Shop
- 10:05Online Resources
- 10:31Global Partner
- 10:56Workshop
- 11:31Resources
- 12:33Life stories
- 14:05Emily Johnson
- 14:43Global Sponsors
- 14:59Questions
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