EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Apr 17 17:14:15 EDT 2015


On 17/04/2015 20:35, beliavsky at aol.com.dmarc.invalid wrote:
> On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:25:51 PM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Django Girls Workshop
>> during the EuroPython 2015. It will take place on 20th of July, the
>> first day of the conference.
>>
>> We believe in the work that this group is doing to bring more women
>> into technology, and we will work towards making EuroPython 2015
>> enjoyable and welcoming for these beginner programmers.
>
> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending.
>

http://djangogirls.org/

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