When I email women and ask them if they would like to do an interview for our Your Django Story series I sometimes get replies like

“I think my story isn’t very interesting.“ "I always liked Math and studied Computer Science, so I really don’t have anything cool to tell you.“ "I don’t think people will want to read my story.“ "I’m not a professional programmer.“ "I don’t work with Django professionally.“ "Do you really think I would qualify to be featured on the blog?“

Reading those replies makes me sad so I wanted to say a few words.

There are really only two requirements you have to meet in order to be a Django Girl:

You have to identify as a woman. You have to use Django in any way.

That’s it! :)

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve worked with Django professionally for 10 years or whether you just started and are using it for little side projects at home. If you write computer programs, you are a computer programmer. If you are a woman who works with Django, you are a Django Girl!

Your story is more interesting than you think or know!

We get so much great feedback from people telling us that they read every single story we publish and that they enjoy reading them so much. Whether you always liked Math, then studied Computer Science and work as a programmer now or you made a big carreer change, your story is interesting, special and unique and people would love to read it! You never know, maybe your story might change another woman’s life because it inspires her. Don’t be afraid to share your story, you are awesome!

We started the Django Story project in September 2014 and have published 30 awesome stories so far. Let’s make 2015 another great Django Story year but in order to do that we need your help! If you identify as a woman and work with Django or know someone who does please shoot us an email at story@djangogirls.org. We’d love to read your stories. We’d especially love to read more stories of Django Girls alumni. It doesn’t matter whether you started working as a programmer after attending a Django Girls workshop or just work on Django projects at home. Please tell us your story and share what you got out of attending a Django Girls workshop.

You are badass Django Girl!

Here’s to a great Django Girls year 2015!



PS: If you don’t know anything about Django yet but are interested and would love to learn more, please check out our website for new Django Girls events and our tutorial. We have a Gitter chatroom where people would love to help you and you can also email us anytime :)