Hi All, Sometime earlier in the day, Karthik, who is also part of our community linked me to Jacob[1]'s keynote at PyCon 2015[2].
I just got around to watching it and it left me thinking about a lot of things. Before you go ahead with reading the rest of this message, I urge you all to go and watch the keynote and come back to this when you're done. One of the things that has been in mind for a very long time for me is the imbalance in our community. I've attended almost all meetups since October last year and I find the amount of women attending these meetups as compared to the amount of men is startlingly low. I've only found Sharmila stepping up to give talks and I found her talk about intro to pandas outstanding. The question I want to ask all the women on the list and to everyone else as well is if there is anything that we, as a community can do in order to start bringing a change in this imbalance. Do you think that the expectation around being a "women programmer" is too much? Do you think that we could have a Code Of Conduct for our community that would help our women counterparts feel more comfortable? Could we help set up some sort of a PyLadies chapter in Chennai? I want to know if, as a community, we are fundamentally missing something that doesn't encourage women from participating. I feel we need to fix this because we seem to be missing out on some great people. I've been influenced by so many great women in the field of tech. I feel our community (and largely even our country) has no lesser talent than anyone else. We should take an *active* step forward in making this happen. I look forward to all your thoughts and suggestions on this. --- Footnotes: [1]: https://twitter.com/jacobian [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFxYlEKE _______________________________________________ Chennaipy mailing list Chennaipy@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
