PyLadies#
PyLadies is an international mentorship group for marginalized genders, such as but not limited to non-binary people, trans people, and women in tech, with a focus on helping our community become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. All skill levels welcome!
Founded in 2011 during PyCon PyLadies was a response to the lack of representation and diversity within the Python community.
Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. To learn more about the global community, visit the PyLadies website.
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Anyone in the community can become an official member by signing up to do so, memberships offers:
automatic Python Software Foundation membership
the option to vote in PyLadies elections
offer feedback & get involved in the communities growth
PyLadies Global council#
In 2020 a global PyLadies council was formed. The Council has 9 seats, including 6 seats selected by public election with a 2 year service commitment and 3 seats selected by application with a 1 year service commitment. Additionally the Council has a diversity and inclusion requirement that sets a maximum of 3 seats to be filled by members from the same country of residence. You can read more about the council here.
Berlin Chapter#
The Berlin chapter has existed since 2013 and runs monthly meetups/ workshops through Meetup.com. We are more than 1000 members strong, although most sessions run with between 30-50 attendees (pre-pandemic). We have members of all experience levels and backgrounds.
You can get a sense of the events we run by looking at the past events on Meetup we also have some slides and materials from past events in this repository
Places you can find us#
Please note that as we are all volunteers it can take us a while to respond
Joining our slack#
Slack is where you can find out about upcoming events, scholarship opportunities, jobs, learning resources, you can ask and answer questions, find mentors and join discussions about various topics including conversations about Python to being a gender minority in tech.
https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.
Accept the email invitation
Go to the workspace
Join the channels that interest you, we recommend #city-berlin, #city-germany #jobs-europe
Every person involved in our events and online community should comply with our Code of Conduct
Further reading#
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