Django Girls

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Django Girls
Type not-for-profit
Key people
  • Ola Sitarska
  • Ola Sendecka
Website djangogirls.org

Django Girls is an international non-profit organization started by two Polish women, Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka, [1] to inspire women from all backgrounds [2] to get interested in technology and to become programmers, [3] offering a safe and friendly environment. [4] [5] It is known for the free workshops it hosts to help women to learn to program [6] and for its Django tutorial. [7] It is often supported by the Python Software Foundation, [8] and they often hold sessions at the Python Conference. [9]

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History

The first Django Girls workshop, which kicked off Django Girls, happened during EuroPython 2014, in Berlin. [10] Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka decided to use Django and Python because both are open source code platforms, which may help women developing their own ideas. [11] Since then, the initiative has spread worldwide, [12] reaching countries like Argentina, [13] [14] Australia, [15] Bolivia, [16] Brazil, [17] Colombia, [18] Ecuador, [19] [20] [21] Ghana, [22] Nigeria, [23] [24] United Kingdom, [4] Peru, [25] [26] United States, [27] [2] Zimbabwe [28] [29] and many others.

Tutorial

The tutorial, which teaches how to create and deploy a blog application using Django, is maintained and updated by the Django Girls community, using Github. As of May 2018, the Django Girls tutorial has been published online in 14 languages [30] besides its original English version. As of May 2018, more than 1,000,000 users have visited its website. [31]

Django Girls workshops

Using a manual provided by the organization, [4] [11] Django Girls volunteers offer free [32] one [33] or two days workshops in many cities of the world, usually held during weekends. [2] It is aimed at complete beginners, teaching about HTML, CSS, Python and Django. [34] As of May 2018, 414 cities across 90 countries [35] have hosted Django Girls workshops, with Accra, [22] Athens, [36] Florence, [37] Kathmandu, [38] Lagos, [39] Lahore, [40] Oxford, [41] and São José dos Campos [42] among them. As of May 2018, over 14,000 women have attended Django Girls workshops held across the globe.[ citation needed ]

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