Hi everyone,

We have been talking about encouraging women to join PyCon and start working on python. Why not take a step towards it? How about we decrease ticket price to some amount or maybe waive it totally for them? 

This could bring some questions like how'd we know that the ones joining are bringing some value to the conference. Well, if more women are attending, that's already a plus. To ensure even more, we could start a program, like, ask them to create a github account, create 2-5 repo, show us and they get a free ticker. Sounds odd and silly, but this will also encourage them to start using git or any VCS. And this also shows us that those participants actually made some effort to join the conference. They are not just drove by the offer of freebies.

I haven't seen many girls take up the initiative to become a developer, only couple of my college friends did. They have no one to encourage them in becoming developers. So to do that, we might have to put some extra manual effort. But it should be overall good for the community.

PS: Should have put the gender field in last year's feedback form. Could get a statistic. This year will definitely do it.