Re: [BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Annapoornima Koppad a.kop...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, I recently started the Pyladies Bangalore chapter. I wanted to know how many lady python programmers are on Bangalore python users group. I will be really interested in the numbers in terms of, 1. How many lady python programmers are on Bangalore python users group? I'm a one. 2. How many are active in attending the Bangalore meetups? None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a tutorial last year at PyCon India. 3. How much is the participation of these women for any of Bangalore Python outreach activities. What do you mean by outreach activities? 4. Of the active members, how many have been active in producing good quality talks, workshops, etc. AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. @Annapoornima Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of PyLadies chapter. I've been listening to this list for many years now, but never came across any posts from you before this discussion. Would be great to know more about what you've been doing with Python lately. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore
Dear Devi, Please find my answers inline. On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Devi asld...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Annapoornima Koppad a.kop...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I recently started the Pyladies Bangalore chapter. I wanted to know how many lady python programmers are on Bangalore python users group. I will be really interested in the numbers in terms of, 1. How many lady python programmers are on Bangalore python users group? I'm a one. Kudos to being a lady programmer!!! 2. How many are active in attending the Bangalore meetups? None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a tutorial last year at PyCon India. 3. How much is the participation of these women for any of Bangalore Python outreach activities. What do you mean by outreach activities? Please see the answer below for this question. 4. Of the active members, how many have been active in producing good quality talks, workshops, etc. AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. Combine your questions, answer for 2, 3, 4, plus the fact that there are three of us in a 1100 odd list. Please do the math. That combined with your above answer, u pretty much answered your own questions. If you are still not happy, shoot an email offline or join Pyladies Bangalore mailing list. We have a growing community of women programmers and discuss quite a lot of them. @Annapoornima Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of PyLadies chapter. I've been listening to this list for many years now, but never came across any posts from you before this discussion. Would be great to know more about what you've been doing with Python lately. Same here. Never knew you existed also..:-) Quite mutual ..! I am learning python and helping others learn Python. Just a couple of things, I am a Bangalorean. However I studied and did my masters in US. And I shuttle between California and Bangalore a couple of times in a year. I am very interested in Bangalore startup culture. Hence I am trying to see what I can do to improve the less than .2% women participation from Bangalore. Its great to connect with an experienced lady python programmer. It will be nice if you can come down and talk to some of the ladies to teach them python programming. Thanks for your email. Its always nice to know there is other ladies on this list. Thanks and regards, Annapoornima ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Devi asld...@gmail.com wrote: None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a tutorial last year at PyCon India. Nice to meet you (virtually) Devi. What do you mean by outreach activities? The PSF has various committees[0] and one of those is the outreach and education committee, which funds activities like sprints and workshops. The Pandas workshop I organised last year was funded by the Sprints committee as was Asheesh's (who helped me a lot) travel. They have a specific application format and if Pyladies-BLR would like to host sprints, workshops, bug-squashing sessions, documentation, etc... for core Python libs, I would love to help you draft an application for the local event. [0] http://www.python.org/psf/committees/ [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. @Annapoornima Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of PyLadies chapter. Although this is not addressed to me, I'll take the liberty of answering it. From, http://www.pyladies.com/, We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate! /quote There is an irc channel #pyladies on freenode, which averages between 60-70 people on any given day. Besides, Pyladies is pretty active in providing FA to women who wish to attend/speak at Pycon. From this year on, speakers can apply for FA directly on the pycon website. Also, this year, they have started workshops on helping women submit more proposals: http://www.pyladies.com/blog/getting-more-women-to-submit-talk-proposals/ svaksha ॥ स्वक्ष ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore
+1 to svaksha's answer! On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:03 PM, svaksha svak...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Devi asld...@gmail.com wrote: None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a tutorial last year at PyCon India. Nice to meet you (virtually) Devi. What do you mean by outreach activities? The PSF has various committees[0] and one of those is the outreach and education committee, which funds activities like sprints and workshops. The Pandas workshop I organised last year was funded by the Sprints committee as was Asheesh's (who helped me a lot) travel. They have a specific application format and if Pyladies-BLR would like to host sprints, workshops, bug-squashing sessions, documentation, etc... for core Python libs, I would love to help you draft an application for the local event. [0] http://www.python.org/psf/committees/ [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. @Annapoornima Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of PyLadies chapter. Although this is not addressed to me, I'll take the liberty of answering it. From, http://www.pyladies.com/, We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate! /quote There is an irc channel #pyladies on freenode, which averages between 60-70 people on any given day. Besides, Pyladies is pretty active in providing FA to women who wish to attend/speak at Pycon. From this year on, speakers can apply for FA directly on the pycon website. Also, this year, they have started workshops on helping women submit more proposals: http://www.pyladies.com/blog/getting-more-women-to-submit-talk-proposals/ svaksha ॥ स्वक्ष ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
Re: [BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore
Thanks for the detailed answers Svaksha and Annapoornima. I just joined pyladies-blr list. Still, I'm not sure of how having a separate group for ladies could help more women to learn Python. This is going to be my personal opinion, though. If we (ladies) have different needs in learning Python/programming than our counterparts, then it makes sense to have a separate group. For example, it makes more sense, IMO, to have a pyfreshers group than pyladies, where people who're starting with Python don't need to hesitate to ask/discuss basic doubts/questions. When we're aspiring to learn and share the same thing in a no different way than others, why a separate group? I think, if we have any concerns/suggestions to make BangPypers more woman friendly, they can be posted and discussed here. We are already a part of larger Python world and I doubt if we need a separate identity first and then to bridge the gap later. We could take from the larger community and give back to the same. (s/we/women/g) On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:03 PM, svaksha svak...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Devi asld...@gmail.com wrote: None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a tutorial last year at PyCon India. Nice to meet you (virtually) Devi. What do you mean by outreach activities? The PSF has various committees[0] and one of those is the outreach and education committee, which funds activities like sprints and workshops. The Pandas workshop I organised last year was funded by the Sprints committee as was Asheesh's (who helped me a lot) travel. They have a specific application format and if Pyladies-BLR would like to host sprints, workshops, bug-squashing sessions, documentation, etc... for core Python libs, I would love to help you draft an application for the local event. [0] http://www.python.org/psf/committees/ [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. @Annapoornima Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of PyLadies chapter. Although this is not addressed to me, I'll take the liberty of answering it. From, http://www.pyladies.com/, We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate! /quote There is an irc channel #pyladies on freenode, which averages between 60-70 people on any given day. Besides, Pyladies is pretty active in providing FA to women who wish to attend/speak at Pycon. From this year on, speakers can apply for FA directly on the pycon website. Also, this year, they have started workshops on helping women submit more proposals: http://www.pyladies.com/blog/getting-more-women-to-submit-talk-proposals/ svaksha ॥ स्वक्ष ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- ~Devi ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
