Please support Django Girls Fundraising Campaign (sorry for irrelevant topic in this group)

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Anna Makarudze

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Feb 6, 2018, 7:07:58 AM2/6/18
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Hello all,


My name is Anna Makarudze. I am the Django Girls Foundation Fundraising Coordinator.


I would like to take this opportunity to inform you about the crowdfunding project we launched this week to raise funds which we need to continue our work in bringing in more women to coding. Since Django Girls was started three years ago, over 12,000 women have attended our workshops and learnt to code using Python and Django. We would like to continue growing the number in 2018. We are running our fundraising project through crowdfunding on Indiegogo Generosity, an online crowdfunding platform (https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/django-girls-fundraising-campaign/x/17493288). Our target is to raise USD 10,000 in four to six weeks through corporate sponsorships and crowdfunding. We are hoping you will support us and help us reach our goal.


If your company is interested in corporate sponsorship, please contact me and I will share with you our Sponsors Deck for 2018 which contains information about our corporate sponsorship packages. We hope you can share the within your organisation as well as spread the word about the campaign to your friends, family and colleagues.


Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have.

Thank you.


P.S Sorry for the post which may be irrelevant in this group.


Cupcakes and high-fives,

Anna Makarudze

Django Girls Fundraising Coordinator

Matemática A3K

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Feb 6, 2018, 1:53:07 PM2/6/18
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Not at all, best of luck with your campaign! :)
 


Cupcakes and high-fives,

Anna Makarudze

Django Girls Fundraising Coordinator

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Gerardo Palazuelos Guerrero

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Feb 6, 2018, 1:56:59 PM2/6/18
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the django girls project was my introduction to django, and it was a good one.

thanks to all people and their time...
and good luck


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Etienne Robillard

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Feb 6, 2018, 2:12:59 PM2/6/18
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Le 2018-02-06 à 13:55, Gerardo Palazuelos Guerrero a écrit :
the django girls project was my introduction to django, and it was a good one.
I don't know man.
Basically I guess programming Django/Python is not gender specific, so it makes very little difference to me.


thanks to all people and their time...
and good luck

Best regards,
Etienne


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Matemática A3K

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Feb 6, 2018, 3:05:42 PM2/6/18
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Etienne Robillard <tka...@yandex.com> wrote:



Le 2018-02-06 à 13:55, Gerardo Palazuelos Guerrero a écrit :
the django girls project was my introduction to django, and it was a good one.
 I don't know man.
Basically I guess programming Django/Python is not gender specific, so it makes very little difference to me.

It is not, so it is not country specific yet there are Python/Django communities in almost every country... but seems like a long way to go until humanity realizes the stupidity of borders and give up segregation in whatever condition they put in their minds :)

Artificial divisions are one of the causes of the worst problems :)

I know "bad" women in tech, "good" women in tech, "bad" women outside tech, "good" women outside tech, "good" and "bad" men in and out tech. It's not about that.

Any group that promotes to gain an ability or do something that otherwise seems subjectively unachievable by the mental framework imposed to that people with whatever condition (nor good or bad, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, race, money, whatever...) is a great thing, because it leverage an artificial division that made people felt like they were dumb, "less" or whatever... feeling unhappy and living way below their potential.

It's about helping to overcome that mental barrier :)

And if you do that while contributing to the core of the community and including more people, its AMAZING! A hell of a work!

More people happy in every place! Yay!

So, GO DJANGO GIRLS!!!
 

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Etienne Robillard

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Feb 6, 2018, 3:32:22 PM2/6/18
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Le 2018-02-06 à 15:04, Matemática A3K a écrit :




It is not, so it is not country specific yet there are Python/Django communities in almost every country... but seems like a long way to go until humanity realizes the stupidity of borders and give up segregation in whatever condition they put in their minds :)

What do you mean with "segregation" ?

I'm not really sure what this quote means.



I know "bad" women in tech, "good" women in tech, "bad" women outside tech, "good" women outside tech, "good" and "bad" men in and out tech. It's not about that.

You can qualify a person with good or bad as you like, but a subjective comment has no true scientific value...
Any group that promotes to gain an ability or do something that otherwise seems subjectively unachievable by the mental framework imposed to that people with whatever condition (nor good or bad, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, race, money, whatever...) is a great thing, because it leverage an artificial division that made people felt like they were dumb, "less" or whatever... feeling unhappy and living way below their potential.

So, is django a mental framework? :-)


It's about helping to overcome that mental barrier :)
The only mental barrier existing is my own capacity to think/code out of the box...
 
And if you do that while contributing to the core of the community and including more people, its AMAZING! A hell of a work!

More people happy in every place! Yay!

So, GO DJANGO GIRLS!!!


Best regards,
Etienne

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