Django Girls Inland Empire Recap
The first Django Girls workshop in Southern California was Django Girls Inland Empire. It took place at the University of California, Riverside.
Our #DjangoGirls family 🎈✨💗 pic.twitter.com/GwjFiHwAbj
— Django Girls IE (@DjangoGirlsIE) December 5, 2015
For the workshop, Cameron Lucky created a giant poster introducing each coach and showing which operating systems the coach could help attendees with.
Our #djangogirls coaches know about Windows, Mac, and Linux pic.twitter.com/dRMbkg8CFl
— Django Girls IE (@DjangoGirlsIE) December 5, 2015
Teams were named after influential women programmers, both from history and from the contemporary world.
Team Leah Culver and Team Sara Soueidan powering through the #djangogirls tutorial 🔋💬🎨💻😁 pic.twitter.com/OfM7Snhb6x
— Django Girls IE (@DjangoGirlsIE) December 5, 2015
During lunch, we had a talk inspiring attendees to continue their journey and build the next Instagram or Pinterest.
Great lunchtime talk from @audreyr and @pydanny at @DjangoGirlsIE 😃👍🙌🎈🎈 #djangogirls pic.twitter.com/QUO9WPEAxV
— Trey Hunner (@treyhunner) December 5, 2015
The high coach-to-student ratio meant that students didn’t get stuck on any one issue for too long.
Special thanks to all the amazing members of the @DjangoGirlsIE coaching team pic.twitter.com/fWU5c5C27z
— InlandEmpirePyladies (@IEPyladies) December 5, 2015
We would like to thank our coaches, students, organizers, and sponsors. This event couldn’t have been possible without all of you.
We were sponsored by Cars.com, Python Software Foundation, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, Two Scoops Academy, Truthful Technology, and JetBrains.
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Thanks again to our sponsors!

SoCal Pyladies