Gloria Jacobs, a New York City area software developer, is an
invited speaker for the upcoming PyArkansas conference at UCA (http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/).
She's also very active in working with women pursuing software
development, so in conjunction with the conference, she has agreed
to lead a couple of sessions intended particularly for women studying
computer science at area colleges.
| Where: |
Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, in M C
Reynolds 316 (the Linux Lab) |
| When: |
Friday, Nov 13, from 6PM until we get kicked
out. |
| Whom: |
Women with anything from zero programming
experience, to expert level. |
| What: |
We'll do the bash shell, Python basics, basic web and
database interfaces, and advanced code sprint work for whomever feels
like it. |
| Why: |
Because it's great fun. |
Join us for one night and one day of Python fun and folly at
PyArkansas 2009 (http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/).
Even if you cannot
make the day sessions, be sure to join us for a night of
discussion and geek-walks through the basics, web apps, and back end
application development. Your level of experience does not matter
if your intent is in the right place. Bring questions, code, ideas,
anything related that you wish to share, along with a laptop if you
have one. This promises to be a weekend of geeky fun.
For more information or to register, e-mail cburch@cburch.com
and aagg@comcast.net.
The leader, Gloria Jacobs, has been doing software design and
development in the New York City area for over 15 years, mostly in
Python since 2001. She has successfully rolled out several large scale
products for start-ups, exclusively in Python. She writes both small
and large Python articles in several online publications. She teaches
an online software development group for women, and has helped teach
several women's Open Source Software tech group sessions in Europe.
She is a guest speaker at the upcoming PyArkansas
conference.