Record Number of Women Give Tech Talks at PyCon 2013

9 April 2013 | Videos

PyCon is more than where Donglegate began. This year, PyCon boasted a record number of talks delivered by women. As always, they provided a generous financial aid program promoted by many diversity-minded groups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women...

How to Deal with Oafs, AKA the Adria Richards Mess

21 March 2013 | OOO

A female developer evangelist calls out a couple of misbehaving males for making sexist jokes at a conference, getting one of them fired. All hell breaks loose online. What lesson, if any, can we learn from this unsavory incident? By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women...
How To Brainstorm A Conference Talk Proposal

How To Brainstorm A Conference Talk Proposal

30 August 2012 | Uncategorized

It is not important that you haven’t spoke at PyCon or another conference before. But do prove that why you should now. Taken from Brainstorming: Writing a PyCon Proposal. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco) While this post is for PyCon, the US-based...
The Power Of Cooperative Outreach (Diversifying PyCon)

The Power Of Cooperative Outreach (Diversifying PyCon)

20 February 2012 | Uncategorized

By Jessica McKellar (Software Engineer, Ksplice, Oracle)   I want to share an email I received recently from a woman named Pam. It is a response to an email I sent to the DevChix mailing list, calling on DevChixen to attend PyCon, the largest annual Python...