Django Girls

Django Girls

Type	not-for-profit
Key people	Ola Sitarska Ola Sendecka
Website	djangogirls.org

Django Girls is an international non-profit organization started by two Polish women, Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka,^[1] to inspire women from all backgrounds^[2] to get interested in technology and to become programmers,^[3] offering a safe and friendly environment.^[4][5] It is known for the free workshops it hosts to help women to learn to program^[6] and for its Django tutorial.^[7] It is often supported by the Python Software Foundation,^[8] and they often hold sessions at the Python Conference.^[9]

The first Django Girls workshop, which kicked off Django Girls, happened during EuroPython 2014, in Berlin.^[10] Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka decided to use Django and Python because both are open source code platforms, which may help women developing their own ideas.^[11] Since then, the initiative has spread worldwide,^[12] reaching countries like Argentina,^[13][14] Australia,^[15] Bolivia,^[16] Brazil,^[17] Colombia,^[18] Ecuador,^[19][20][21] Ghana,^[22] Nigeria,^[23][24] United Kingdom,^[4] Peru,^[25][26] United States,^[27][2] Zimbabwe^[28][29] and many others.

The tutorial, which teaches how to create and deploy a blog application using Django, is maintained and updated by the Django Girls community, using Github. As of May 2018, the Django Girls tutorial has been published online in 14 languages^[30] besides its original English version. As of May 2018, more than 1,000,000 users have visited its website.^[31]

Using a manual provided by the organization,^[4][11] Django Girls volunteers offer free^[32] one^[33] or two days workshops in many cities of the world, usually held during weekends.^[2] It is aimed at complete beginners, teaching about HTML, CSS, Python and Django.^[34] As of May 2018, 414 cities across 90 countries^[35] have hosted Django Girls workshops, with Accra,^[22] Athens,^[36] Florence,^[37] Kathmandu,^[38] Lagos,^[39] Lahore,^[40] Oxford,^[41] and São José dos Campos^[42] among them. As of May 2018, over 14,000 women have attended Django Girls workshops held across the globe.^{[citation needed]}

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