[Inpycon] Encouraging women developers to join PyCon

[Chris W]

Hi All,

+ with Bibhas that decreasing prices is not a good option.

As I've seen women participation quite good specially in other forums like
Management forums and if we at Pycon want to encourage more participation,
the better way is to

#start the ad-campaign quite and see that the poster / site banner
represents(shows) images of all genders
# send emails/ lists both to colleges and companies;
# encourage presentations;

Thanks,
Christopher

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

>
> I'm not sure if decreasing ticket prices is sending the right
> message. It's kind of condescending. I've always thought that the idea
> is equality in the domain rather than special treatment.
>
> However, initiatives like what the pyladies group does are useful. I'm
> just not sure how to go about this. It would be nice if there were a few
> active female members in the organiser group.
>
> Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> writes:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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> Noufal
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