On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Devi <asld...@gmail.com> wrote: > None of the meetups, but attended most of Indian editions of PyCon. Gave a > tutorial last year at PyCon India.
Nice to meet you (virtually) Devi. > What do you mean by outreach activities? The PSF has various committees[0] and one of those is the outreach and education committee, which funds activities like sprints and workshops. The Pandas workshop I organised last year was funded by the Sprints committee as was Asheesh's (who helped me a lot) travel. They have a specific application format and if Pyladies-BLR would like to host sprints, workshops, bug-squashing sessions, documentation, etc... for core Python libs, I would love to help you draft an application for the local event. [0] http://www.python.org/psf/committees/ [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach-and-education > AFAIK, there're very few active women on this list. > > @Annapoornima > Being an active user of Python, I'm curious to know what are the goals of > PyLadies chapter. Although this is not addressed to me, I'll take the liberty of answering it. From, http://www.pyladies.com/, We are an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate! </quote> There is an irc channel #pyladies on freenode, which averages between 60-70 people on any given day. Besides, Pyladies is pretty active in providing FA to women who wish to attend/speak at Pycon. From this year on, speakers can apply for FA directly on the pycon website. Also, this year, they have started workshops on helping women submit more proposals: http://www.pyladies.com/blog/getting-more-women-to-submit-talk-proposals/ svaksha ॥ स्वक्ष _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
