PyLadies Boston

Join us for a hands-on Beginner's Guide to Github Workshop dedicated to diving into the world of open source. Are you eager to make your mark but unsure where to begin? Here's your chance to learn and contribute!

📅 Tuesday, September 23
🕕 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
📍 Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, MA

During this workshop, we'll walk you through the essentials of GitHub, share valuable markdown tips, and guide you on crafting top-notch documentation. No previous experience required—just bring along your laptop and a curious mind.

Whether you're new to open source or want to improve your project onboarding experience, this session will walk you through:

• Setting up a Python project in GitHub
• Creating and managing virtual environments along with common packages
• Best practices for documentation including writing a clear README, setup instructions, and contribution guidelines.

You’ll leave with a GitHub-ready template and the confidence to contribute to or lead your own documentation efforts.

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Who should attend?

• New Python developers
• Aspiring technical writers
• Open source contributors
• Anyone who wants to make their projects more welcoming!

Let’s make Python projects more accessible, together.

Welcome to our Grab a Byte lunch series! This month's topic is about the Python package manager uv.

uv can set you free of your environment and dependency issues in python. Setting virtual environments, managing package dependencies and installing/ loading them across systems was never this easier.

For R lovers stuck with figuring python code, think of a version of combination of pak::pak() , here::here() and more.

Join us every month, typically we meet the third Friday of the month at noon. We take turns sharing something Python-related and of interest to our community. We're always looking for presenters! So if you have a cool project or tool you have been using, please let us know.

As part of a collaborative project, we will collectively create the new PyLadies Boston website. In this session, we're going to get set up with git so we can contribute to the repo: https://github.com/pyladies/pyladies-boston-website

Note that it may be challenging to do this virtually and we might not get everyone set up, but that it's part of the process. We are planning an in-person event to code together.

This is part of our monthly Grab a Byte lunch series. We typically meet every third Friday of the month at noon, though we adjust as needed. We take turns presenting something that is Python-related and of interest to our community.