Mentors for Django Girls workshop at EuroPython needed

[Jannis Leidel]

Hi all,

Sincere apologies for the late mail. As discussed at the meetup last week, I’d like
to ask for your help for the Django Girls workshop to be held at the first day of
the EuroPython conference (July 21) in Berlin.

Here is how it is described on the website (http://djangogirls.org/):

We believe that the IT industry will greatly benefit from bringing more
women into technology. We want to give you an opportunity to learn how to
program and become one of us - female programmers!

Workshops are free of charge and if you can’t afford coming to Berlin,
but you are very motivated to learn and then share your knowledge with others,
we have some funds to help you out with your travel costs and accommodation.
Don’t wait too long - you can apply for a pass only until 30th of June!

The organizers are still looking for help to mentor the attendees:

We're looking for experienced Python and Django programmers who are attending
EuroPython 2014 and want to contribute by teaching women to program on the
first day of EuroPython.

If you feel like this is something for you, don't hesitate and contact us:
he...@djangogirls.org.

I appreciate if you would consider helping as it will be a boon to our community
to get more female developers involved with Django and web development in general.

For more information please check out the FAQ on the website (http://djangogirls.org/)
and don’t hesitate to ping me here or privately via email.

Thanks,
Jannis

[Samuel Fuentes]

Hi,

I've helped as a coach in a number of sessions (mostly python, django...) and I have some concerns here regarding expectations. From what I get from the web the idea would be to get people with 0 experience in programming to develop a site with Django in a day.

"Do I need to know anything about websites or programming?
No! Workshops are for beginners. You don’t need to know anything about it. "

 

Does anybody have appropriate training material to do this? I anticipate a lot of frustration for all parts, since I've had difficulties in bringing people to understand Django and develop something in a day with Python experience but no web experience. Or with web dev experience in a different language, but no Python experience. But if somebody has already developed the right material, it might be feasible. In that case, please send a link. If I see it doable, I'd be happily support.

Samuel Fuentes
@samufuentes
samuelfuentes.com

[Martin Mahner]

Please forward/xpost this in the other national Django Mailinglist as well.