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Django Girls is an international non-profit organization started by two Polish women, Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka,[1] to inspire women from all backgrounds[2] to get interested in technology and to become programmers,[3] offering a safe and friendly environment.[4] [5] It is known for the free workshops it hosts to help women to learn to program[6]
The first Django Girls workshop, which kicked off Django Girls, happened during EuroPython 2014, in Berlin.[9] Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka decided to use Django and Python because both are open source code platforms, which may help women developing their own ideas.[10] Since then, the initiative has spread worldwide,[11] reaching countries like Argentina,[12] [13] Australia,[14] Bolivia,[15] Brazil,[16] Colombia,[17] Ecuador,[18] [19] [20] Ghana,[21] Nigeria,[22] [23] United Kingdom, Peru,[24] [25] United States,[26] Zimbabwe[27] [28] and many others.
The tutorial, which teaches how to create and deploy a blog application using Django, is maintained and updated by the Django Girls community, using Github. As of May 2018, the Django Girls tutorial has been published online in 14 languages[29] besides its original English version. As of May 2018, more than 1,000,000 users have visited its website.[30]
Using a manual provided by the organization, Django Girls volunteers offer free[31] one[32] or two days workshops in many cities of the world, usually held during weekends. It is aimed at complete beginners, teaching about HTML, CSS, Python and Django.[33] As of May 2018, 414 cities across 90 countries[34] have hosted Django Girls workshops, with Accra, Athens,[35] Florence,[36] Kathmandu,[37] Lagos,[38] Lahore,[39] Oxford,[40] and São José dos Campos[41] among them. As of May 2018, over 14,000 women have attended Django Girls workshops held across the globe.
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