PyLadiesCon at PyCon US 2025

PyLadiesCon team had a great time at PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh, PA.

During the conference, our team members were busy connecting and networking with the Python community members, sharing news about our conference, and encouraging people to attend, join, and support PyLadiesCon.

Team bonding time

PyLadiesCon is organized by Python and PyLadies community members from all over the world. Our team interactions has been mostly virtual through Discord messages and weekly online meetings. PyCon US is one of the rare event once a year where most of our team members get to meet in person. We took this opportunity to meet in person, and strengthen our friendship, camaraderie, and sense of community.

We had a wonderful time sharing stories, having dinner together, while also discussing how to continue serving the community and make a successful PyLadiesCon in 2025. Thank you to Abigail Dogbe for coordinating and organizing our team dinner.

Recruiting our new team members

Running a global conference like PyLadiesCon is no simple task. It requires a lot of effort, time, and dedication from our team members. We wanted to take this opportunity to recruit new core team members who are also passionate about the community, and are willing and committed to help us organize the conference.

During this conference, we started talking to potential new team members, sharing our vision and mission, our current challenges, and how they can help us.

We are excited to share that during PyCon US, we onboarded Laís Carvalho as our new team member! We will be introducing her to the community in more official manner soon, but we are thrilled that she has started joining and helping us.

Welcome to the team, Laís! 🎉

Announcing our new Open Source project: PyLadiesCon Portal

We are excited to announce that we have started a new open source project called PyLadiesCon Portal Built with Python and Django, the portal is designed to reduce the administrative burden and streamline the process of organizing our conference. We believe that by building this portal, not only we will be able to manage our conference more efficiently, but we will also be providing open source contribution opportunities from our community members, and therefore furthering the PyLadies mission of helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.

Mariatta gave a lightning talk about this project during the Community Organizers Summit. Check her slides to learn more.

Sprinting at PyCon US

We also had a successful sprint at PyCon US lead by Mariatta, where we worked on the PyLadiesCon Portal project. During the sprint, 16 new pull requests were created, and 8 of them were merged. Some highlights include: starting the Brazilian Portuguese translation, various documentation updates, email template update, and new user dashboard page.

Thank you to all of our sprint contributors, who not only contributed to the code, but also mentored others during the sprint.

Thanks to our sprint participants: Alex Kautz, Ana Cecília Vieira, Ann Bridge, Adam Piskorski, Carolina Gómez, Cecília Tivir, Chelsia Sujadi, Cheuk Ting Ho, Hun Jae Lee, Laura Cathey Lubinski, Jessica Temporal, Joslin Oliveros, Manaal Syed, Maya Kerostasia, Miguel Vargas, Mileva Van Tuyl, and Synade Smith.

Spreading News about PyLadiesCon

Throughout the conference, we had the opportunity to meet many Python and PyLadies community members to share the news about PyLadiesCon. We shared stickers and set up our roll-up banner at the PyLadies Booth. Our core team members were also wearing the newly designed PyLadiesCon T-shirts.

We donated a PyLadiesCon T-shirt to the PyLadies Auction (the item was won by Catherine Devlin. We’re also thrilled to see Guido van Rossum wearing our T-shirt during the conference!

Georgi Ker gave a lightning talk about PyLadiesCon on the main stage, as well as during the PyLadies Luncheon. We hope that this will help raise awareness about our conference, and encourage more people to attend, support, and speak at PyLadiesCon.

Watch Georgi’s Lightning Talk at PyCon US.

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Maria Jose had a busy time networking and finding potential sponsors for PyLadiesCon. We will be getting in touch with them soon! If you too are interested in sponsoring and supporting our conference, please check our sponsorship prospectus.

Even though Denny Perez was not able to attend the conference in person, she was still actively engaging with the community online, and sharing social media updates throughout the conference using photos that were shared by our team members onsite.

Be sure to check all the posts with hashtag #PyLadiesCon on your favorite social media platform.

Other Highlights

We also would like to celebrate the accomplishments from the global PyLadies community at PyCon US.

PyLadies raised $67,000 from the PyLadies Auction. Thank you to all the generous donors and bidders!

This year’s recipients of the Outstanding PyLady award were announced during the conference: Anwesha Das, Cecília Tivir, Karolina Surma, and Katie McLaughlin.

Other PyLadies community members were also recognized for their contributions to the Python community and received the PSF Community Service award: Joanna Jablonski, Jessica Greene, Laís Carvalho, Raquel Dou, and Daisy Leigh Brenecki.

Congratulations and thank you for all of your contributions! We’re especially proud to see that our past speakers and keynote speakers received these recognitions and awards. Watch the PyLadiesCon keynote speeches by Anwesha Das and Katie McLaughlin from PyLadiesCon 2024, and talks from Cecília Tivir and Joanna Jablonski from PyLadiesCon 2023.

We notice so many PyLadies community members were actively participating in the conference, including keynote speaker Lynn Root, conference chair Elaine Wong, and many others as conference speakers and volunteers. Thank you for all the work you all do!

Thank you PyCon US for another wonderful conference. We can’t wait for the next one. And if you couldn’t get enough conferencing, why not join us at PyLadiesCon in December? It’s free and fully online! Follow us on social media and subscribe to this blog to get the latest updates about PyLadiesCon.