[BangPypers] Pyladies Bangalore

[Kracekumar Ramaraju]

On Aug 23, 2013 4:19 PM, "Anand B Pillai" <anandpillai at letterboxes.org>
wrote:
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> Hi Annapoornima,
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> On Thursday 22 August 2013 04:04 PM, Annapoornima Koppad 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? 2. How many are active in attending the Bangalore meetups?
> > 3. How much is the participation of these women for any of
> > Bangalore Python outreach activities. 4. Of the active members, how
> > many have been active in producing good quality talks, workshops,
> > etc.
> >
> > I did a little bit of research before deciding to email the group
> > here. There are 570 members on the Bangalore Python user groups. Of
> > which 20 are ladies. Of the 20 number, 3 are recruiters. This
> > number is really disconcerting to me. Am I missing out some people
> > here? This is leading me to ask these questions.
> >
>
> Thanks for your initiative. It is welcome.
>
> However your numbers are a bit off. I just checked the mailman admin
> interface and mailman tells me there are 1104 members in total. Your
> number of 570 is roughly 50% off.
>
>
> There is of course no way to classify it by gender as mailman doesn't
> ask this information. So no idea how you figured out the number of
> ladies and the recruiters. Would be useful to know.
>
I think she is referring to meetup group.

> > 1. How many women really attend workshops/meetups? 2. Are there any
> > efforts to understand the problems associated with the poor
> > attendance of women? 3. Aren't there any women who want to learn
> > Python but are too afraid to ask questions. What is being done to
> > address these problems?
> >
>
> I suggest to create a survey for this at a say like surveymonkey or
> surveyreport and send the survey to the mailing list, with these
> questions. That would be the best way to collect your data.
>
> Let the admins know if we can help in some way.
>
> > That said, I am attaching the links to Pyladies Bangalore.
> [...]
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> >
> > Annapoornima Koppad
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> >
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> Regards,
>
> - --Anand
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