DjangoCon US 2015 - Coding Like a Girl by Gabriela D'Ávilla

Hello, I'm Gabi

Actually, it's Gabriela

But it's kinda hard to speak my name in english, so Gabi is fine

I'm brazilian, I came from São Paulo

I was the only dot on the world map from something

From Brazil there

So that's me

I would like first to thank the organizers

for being so aware of diversity

that they bring me here to help you

to improve the discussion

I will say that I'm pretty impressed

by the amout of women that I saw

at this conference

I used to see 10 women out of 200

in some conferences that I went to

and Jeff just showed me

that we have about 21% of women

I think it's almost 90 women here

So, that's nice, nice to see that

So, thank you again

and congratulations for the effort

A little about me

You don't know me

I'm not a Django developer, not a Python developer

I'm a PHP developer

I work sometimes with node too

I also don't have a degree in

women studies or anthropology

All of this is from my own interest in the subject

I have a passion for technology

I'm a major in digital game development

But I don't work with that

I'm a web developer, as I said

And I usually, in my spare time

I play with Legos

I have like, 25 thousand pieces

So.. Yeah.. Yeah.. That's a lot

I know, I'm a little overboard on that

But, there's this new Lego set

There's this Kwik-E-Mart, from Simpsons

I wanna buy it, but, trying not to

It's hard, but let's see

So, what to expect from this talk

I wanna talk about diversity

And how bias can influentiate our decisions

And what do I mean "like a girl"

Some companies diversity reports

And how diversity is important to a company

And some initiatives

that are made into some

or sponsored by other companies

I don't wanna talk abot how

one gender is different from another

That's not what this is about

And.. This is about how

both genders working together

can make a better workplace