Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Django': 0.03; 'europython': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'beginner': 0.05; 'lemburg': 0.05; 'referring': 0.07; 'friday,': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'm.-a.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:EuroPython': 0.09; 'django': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'programmers.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'conference.': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'hosting': 0.29; 'towards': 0.31; 'announce': 0.33; 'doing': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'first': 0.61; 'making': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'believe': 0.68; 'technology,': 0.70; 'audience': 0.74; 'day': 0.76; '2015': 0.84; 'termed': 0.84; 'welcoming': 0.84; 'workshop.': 0.84; '2015.': 0.91; '20th': 0.91; 'girls': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:14:15 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-186-84.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1429305271 news.xs4all.nl 2900 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44988 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89092 On 17/04/2015 20:35, beliavsky@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. >> >> We believe in the work that this group is doing to bring more women >> into technology, and we will work towards making EuroPython 2015 >> enjoyable and welcoming for these beginner programmers. > > 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. > http://djangogirls.org/ -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence