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DjangoGirls Dublin @ DjangoCon Europe 2025

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:09:06 +0000

🙌 It was a few years since our last DjangoGirls Dublin workshop, and we are back!

💟 DjangoCon Europe are in Dublin this year (April 23 - 27) and they will be hosting the free DjangoGirls Workshop during their sprints/workshop weekend.

🗓️ Sat April 26, 2025
📍 Talbot Stillorgan Hotel, Dublin
Applications closes: March 29, 2025 (Midnight, Irish Time)

DjangoCon Europe tickets are also on sale. Check their conference page for more info. The team are working on talk selection, and schedule will be announced soon.

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Post-Django Girls @ EuroPython 2022

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:07:00 +0000

Wow, I can't believe Django Girls workshop @ EuroPython 2022 was this time two weeks ago!

We didn't take any pictures as the day actually flew, plus I didn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. But EuroPython had an official photographer, and if they did take some photos of the workshop, I'll share them here with you all.

We accepted 20 applicants, and 16 RSVP'd to join us in-person. We didn't do a head-count, but around that number showed up.

On the Friday before the workshop, we had an open hour for anyone who may have had problems installing Python or Django. Few of the coaches showed up and a participant who just wanted to hang and have a chat. 💖

On the Monday, after registration, folks got settled at the room where the workshop is held, which was at the main conference venue, The Convention Centre Dublin.

An additional surprise coach appeared, the wonderful Nicholas Tollervey!

I put my hand up that my zombie brain was not functioning (even with all the coffee), but I had a lot of amazing help from coaches and folks attending. It was certainly very interactive.

I requested coaches to jump up on stage to go through a section of the tutorial, and with live-coding certainly comes with live-debugging. It was a great way to show how we all make mistakes and how we can trace back and find what went wrong and where.

Alas. we didn't finish the tutorial, we got as far as "CSS – make it pretty!".

Also note that we left out anything to do with github as most of the tutorial's content can be done and tested locally on own laptop.

But... we have set up a Discord server for Django Girls Dublin, so folks can connect with the coaches and ask for help. Or drop in and say "hello!".

discord.com

👉 Don't forget there's an official Django Girls (global) chat channel: https://gitter.im/DjangoGirls/tutorial.

So thank you to all the coaches, everyone who were interested, and were able to come along on the day. You were all so patient and so helpful to each other.

Huge thanks to EuroPython for working with me to host the workshop with the tea/coffee breaks and yummy lunch.

And to big 💖 to Zalando for sponsoring the workshop.

Django Girls Dublin Workshop at EuroPython

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:37:13 +0000

EuroPython is arriving to Dublin this July after 2 years delay because of Covid.

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EuroPython is the largest European Python conference and a meeting reference for programmers, students and companies interested in the Python programming language. The conference is run by the EuroPython Society, a Swedish non-profit organization.

Django Girls Dublin workshop is back after our last workshop hosted by PyCon Ireland in 2016!

Applications are open right now, and you can find information at https://djangogirls.org/en/dublin

Any questions drop me an email at dublin@djangogirls.org.

What is Django Girls?

Django Girls is a non-profit organisation and a community that empowers and helps women to organise free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. We are a volunteer run organisation with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of technology. We are making technology more approachable by creating resources designed with empathy.

During each of our events, 30-60 women build their first web application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django.

More info: https://djangogirls.org/en/

What will I be doing here on dev.to?

Hopefully I can document on the happenings on the run up, during and after the workshop. People can post their experiences as well.

This is what we documented in one of our last workshops, it's a tumblr blog (waat, I know, it's still around!): https://djangogirlsdublin.tumblr.com/