Building a Community for All People
summary
Starts a local PyLadies chapter that grows to over a thousand members and uses concrete practices: Meetup automated welcome email, scheduled beginner tutorials, weekly study groups with mentors, and mob programming and code reviews nights. Claims diverse teams perform better (Harvard Business Review), reports regular mentoring emails from a ~1500-person community, and recommends visible greeters, beginner-marked tables, separate marginalized-group meetups, one-off short tutorials rather than multiweek unpaid courses, and asking organizers how allies can help.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:00Women in Tech
- 2:47Different Life Experiences
- 5:23User Groups
- 9:27Mob Programming
- 11:31Mentorship
- 13:42Presentation Nights
- 16:20Teaching Programming
- 17:29Free Classes
- 20:52Spread the Word
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