PyLadies Berlin

We're excited to invite you to a Meetup focused on the critically acclaimed book Hacking Diversity featuring a very special guest, the author herself, Christina Dunbar-Hester!

The groundbreaking book "reframes questions of diversity advocacy to consider what interventions might appropriately broaden inclusion and participation in the hacking world and beyond."

No better theme to wrap up the international women's month while reflecting on what we have been doing as equity and diversity advocates.

Join us for a thought-provoking evening of discussion and exploration as we delve into the themes and ideas presented in the book while strengthening our communities.

We will start the event by interviewing Christina, and from there, we'll break out into smaller groups for more focused conversations, where you'll have the opportunity to connect with other attendees and explore the ideas presented in the book in more detail.

This Meetup is for anyone interested in the topic of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the tech industry and open source. Whether you're a seasoned professional, a student just starting out in the field, or simply interested in learning more about this critical issue, this event is for you.
Come join us for an evening of engaging conversation, new insights, and meaningful connections as we work together to hack diversity and create a better future for all.

Thanks to the support of Sauce Labs, during the event, we will raffle off ten copies of the book :)

🗓️ Agenda
18h30 Arrivals & Networking
19h-19h10 Community announcements [streamed]
19h10-19h40 Noa & Paloma interview Christina Dunbar-Hester [streamed, online questions are welcome]
19h40-20h Break, food, and networking
20-21h Dynamic working groups
21h Sharing the working groups with everyone
21h40 Wrap up
22h See you next time :)

❓ Can men attend ❓
Everyone is welcome. :)
If you identify as someone well-represented in open source and in tech, please be mindful of the space and privileges you have, and use it to support others.

• Audience
Everyone is welcome to attend this session! Community organizers, allies, and people interested to learn more about what can be done to improve equity in open source and in tech, everyone is welcome

• Facilitators
The session will be led by Noa Tamir & Paloma Oliveira.

• Host & Sponsor
This event is being sponsored by Sauce Labs
Food and drinks will be available from our hosts 🥳

• By attending our event (in person and online), you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

❗❗ Attention❗❗
To make all in-person attendees feel safe, we ask everyone to be fully vaccinated or recovered (2G) and additionally IRRESPECTIVE OF THE BOOSTER STATUS, when possible, we suggest wearing masks during the event to be more considerate of others. Please refrain from coming to the event if you feel unwell, we try to make our content also available online, either live or as a recording after the event.
Kindly note that not all participants will be wearing masks. If you are compromised by this, please let us know, and we will ask folks to respect it upon arrival, but we can’t guarantee everyone will follow the recommendation. Also, folks do remove masks for eating and drinking. Please let us know if you have other ideas for how we can help you attend in-person events.

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• 🎥 This hybrid event will be streamed, details to follow

• Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at [masked]
Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.

Accept the email invitation
2. Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
3. Join channel #city-berlin, #germany, #jobs-europe

PyLadies Berlin are excited to bring you this open source workshop dedicated to contributing to pandas.

pandas is a data wrangling platform for Python widely adopted in the scientific computing community. In this session, you will be guided on how you can make your own contributions to the project, no prior experience contributing required! Not only will this teach you new skills and boost your CV, you'll also likely get a nice adrenaline rush when your contribution is accepted!

If you don’t finish your contribution during the event, we hope you will continue to work on it after the workshop. pandas offers regular new contributor meetings and has a slack space to provide ongoing support for new contributors. For more details, see our contributor community page: http://pandas.pydata.org/docs/dev/development/community.html .

❓Any other requirements ❓
1. Bring your own laptop
2. Have Github account: https://github.com
3. Have git installed: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

❓ Can men attend ❓
Everyone is welcome :)
If you identify yourself as someone well-represented in open source and in tech, please be mindful of the space and privileges you have, and use it to support others.

• Format for the session:
First 30 minutes: network and get comfortable, enjoy the food and drinks.
Next 15 minutes : an introduction – what you can contribute, how to contribute, and how to set up your development environment or use gitpod;
The rest : "office hours", during which you'll be mentored through setting up a development environment and making a contribution to pandas.

• Preparation (optional)
For those who are more keen on using the workshop to work on their contribution to pandas, you may want to start setting up your development environment in advance. This w​​ay, by the time you arrive you are ready to get started on picking issues, and starting to contribute.

We also offer a development environment on gitpod. It can take some minutes to load, but provides you an instant and fresh development environment for each new task directly from your browser, using VScode.

Please be aware that it could take longer to set up a development on ​​a computer running a Windows operating system compared to MacOS or Unix. We will guide you through the steps, and they are useful to learn for many open source projects.

To get the most out of the session, it's encouraged (but not required) that you have a look at the contributing guide beforehand: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/development/contributing.html.

• Audience level
Everyone is welcome to attend this session! If you've never contributed to open source software before, then you will learn how to, and if you have experience contributing, then you can either help mentor other attendees or you can work on more challenging contributions. It is useful to have some pandas, git, and python and experience. If you don't much experience with them, you might expect to spend time "learning by doing".

• Speakers
The session will be led by Noa Tamir (Lead Data Science Coach at neue fische and member of the NumFOCUS board of directors), and Joris Van den Bossche (pandas maintainer, Software Engineer at Voltron Data)

• Host
This event is being sponsored by Sauce Labs
Food and drinks will be available by our hosts 🥳

• By attending our event, you agree to the PyLadies Code of Conduct: https://www.pyladies.com/CodeOfConduct/

• Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at [masked]
Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.
2. Accept the email invitation
3. Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
4. Join channel #city-berlin, #germany, #jobs-europe