Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-18 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 9:05:54 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:44 am, Larry Martell wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> beliavsky: > >> > >>> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it > >>> the Djang

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 06:44 am, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> beliav...@aol.com: >> >>> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it >>> the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. >>> Referring to adult

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread catperson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:31:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >beliav...@aol.com: > >> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it >> the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. >> Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending. > >You got i

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/17/2015 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> * You might think it's for children only. > > > I would not. It was my first impression that it was targeted for children. There are a lot of STEM programs these days oriented toward girl childr

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/17/2015 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: beliav...@aol.com: If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending. Are all of you claiming this so ig

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > beliav...@aol.com: > > > If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it > > the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. > > Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending. > > You got it wrong. The name is not offen

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/04/2015 20:35, beliav...@aol.com.dmarc.invalid wrote: On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:25:51 PM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Django Girls Workshop during the EuroPython 2015. It will take place on 20th of July, the first day of the conference

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > beliav...@aol.com: > >> If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it >> the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. >> Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending. > > You got it

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
beliav...@aol.com: > If your target audience is women, I think you should have termed it > the Django Womens Workshop rather than the Django Girls Workshop. > Referring to adults as children can be seen as condescending. You got it wrong. The name is not offensive. However, it suffers from two se

Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread beliavsky
On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:25:51 PM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Django Girls Workshop > during the EuroPython 2015. It will take place on 20th of July, the > first day of the conference. > > We believe in the work that this group is doing to

EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop

2015-04-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a Django Girls Workshop during the EuroPython 2015. It will take place on 20th of July, the first day of the conference. We believe in the work that this group is doing to bring more women into technology, and we will work towards making EuroPython