The last months have been truly amazing for Django Girls! Nobody really expected how much we would grow since the first workshop we organized in July. For sure we didn’t expect it to all happen so fast.

2014

In just 7 months we’ve coached more than 670 women from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America. We’ve received more than 3000 applications from women who want to learn, which is still quite hard to believe in! Our free open source tutorial was read by 30 000 readers and viewed almost 350.000 times – this is totally INCREDIBLE.

We didn’t even dream about such a success and we are grateful to all the awesome people who have made it possible: the community of 50+ organizers from all over the world, wonderful coaches who shared their knowledge and passion for programming with others, amazing sponsors that made Django Girls workshops an unforgetable experience and supporters who cheered for us for the last months.

We already have wonderful success stories - some of our attendees are already working as developers, attending conferences, spreading their knowledge with others (make sure to read Dori’s Django Story, if you haven’t done it yet). Every time we hear from Django Girls attendees who’ve became coaches saying: “at the beginning it was hard and after a few months everything in the tutorial is so easy!”, we are incredibly happy and see that all these long evenings and weekends of work are totally worth it!

We’ve noticed that we need more people involved with Django Girls operations, that is why we invited new Django Girls Core members to the team in January. We love working with Baptiste and Ania, they’ve already contributed so much to Django Girls organization.

2015 & beyond

There is one thing that is still missing - and we were asked about it a couple of times by different people in the past months - an official non-profit status. Since all of us organize Django Girls in our free time and we are not paid for the work, we would like to ask you - the awesome community who’ve supported us so greatly in the last half a year - to help us make it happen.

We’re happy to announce an official Patreon account for Django Girls. All of the money gathered on Patreon will go towards establishing a Django Girls non-profit organization as well as supporting the future growth of Django Girls, allowing us to create more learning resources and enabling even more women to dicover the joy of programming.

For all our supporters we prepared small thank-you packages. Check what we offer for each level of monthly recurring donation here (disclaimer: loads of emojis included ;)).

If you wonder why we chose Patreon: they have a wonderful Community Guidelines that we totally agree with and we believe they represent similar values and standards as we do.

We hope that we will be able to keep up the work we have started with Django Girls and make sure women around the world will fall in love with Python and technology!

Thank you for all the love you gave us so far. Here is to many more things we will do together this year :)