Thank you ❤️ PyLadiesCon 2024 received many proposals!

written by Cheuk on September 17, 2024

Call for Proposal of PyLadiesCon 2024 was closed on 15th September and we have received almost 200 proposals! Thank you for all that has been submitted, in our minds you are super awesome and we would love to see your talk. However, the reviews will have a busy weeks ahead to review all the proposals and we will have tough decisions to make regarding which talks to accept. We aim to publish a tentative schedule by 8th October.

So many proposals!

This year we accept talks in multiple languages and we have received in total 192 proposals, an increase from last year’s 164. Here are the number of proposals that we received in different languages:

  • English: 147
  • Español: 31
  • Português: 12
  • Deutsch: 0
  • 日本語: 2
  • 中文: 0

Despite the effort to promote more diversity languages and the support of many PyLadies Chapters, there are still not a lot of submissions besides English and Español. In the future, more strategic planning regarding which language we would like to invite folks to submit would be needed to plan ahead. Nevertheless, a big thanks to the following PyLadies Chapters for helping us during the Call for Proposal periods:

  • PyLadies Tokyo
  • PyLadies Berlin
  • PyLadies Taiwan
  • PyLadies Maputo
  • PyLadies Colombia
  • PyLadies Santo Domingo
  • PyLadies São Carlos

And thank you to everyone who supported our CfP by sharing our news and posts on social media. It is with your help that we’re able to break this record.

Sepaker mentorship ❤️

We have also, for the first time, provided mentorships to those who are new in speaking at conferences and submitting proposals. The first round of submission has been closed on 15th September. We received 20 applications for finding a mentor, and we have onboarded 7 mentors. While we cannot assign everyone a mentor, we have matched some mentors to our mentee based on the language that they speak, their available timezone, and their expertise. Thank you for the following mentors who help bringing new speakers to the community:

We will try to run another round of speaker mentorship when the speakers have been selected and help new speakers get a mentor to help prepare their talks.

Other than selecting and scheduling talks, we will be planning other activities during the conference. Last year, we had panels, discussion sessions, and much more. If you have any great ideas, please feel free to email us at: [email protected]

We need your support

To make PyLadiesCon a success and to support PyLadies, please consider talking to your employer about sponsoring PyLadiescon 2024. PyLadiesCon is an annual gathering of all PyLadies globally, this is a great opportunity to give back to the community that is dedicated to supporting the underrepresented groups in the tech community.

Here’s our timeline leading to PyLadiesCon 2024. Please look forward to the conference.

  • Deadline for CfP Reviews: 29th September
  • Publish of Schedule: 8th October
  • Registration Open: Early to Mid October
  • Start of PyLadiesCon 2024: 6th December 19:00 UTC

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