Django Girls Last updated June 14, 2025 International non-profit organization
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]
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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