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>> Hello. And, welcome to the day's non Keynote 
talks in Curlyboi. I am Betsy and I'll be  

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hosting Curlyboi for the rest of the day. 
I am speaking to you all from the lands  

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of the Jagera people and I'd like to pay my 
respects to their elders, past and present. 

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So, we have so many exciting talks 
lined up for today. Our first speaker  

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is Débora Azevedo. I'm very excited 
for this talk about PyLadies Brazil.  

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Débora is a teacher and master student with 
Innovation with Educational Technologies at  

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the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. 
She's one of PyLadies Brazil's cofounders and  

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has contributed to the PyLadies Interim Group 
that worked before the PyLadies Global Council. 

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She's a PSF fellow member and for the past 
few years, has been making an effort with the  

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PyLadies Brazilian community. So, D bora will be 
taking questions at the end, if there is time. So,  

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please pop your questions into, I don't 
know which side it is, the questions tab,  

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next to the chat tab, in Venueless. If 
we have time, we'll read them at the end. 

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Thank you, Débora.
DÉBORA AZEVEDO: Hi, everyone. I'm speaking  

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live from the past, because, here in Brazil, it's 
a Friday night. So, good morning to you all. Good  

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afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. I'll be 
talking to you, today, about how PyLadies Brazil  

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became the biggest PyLadies chapter of the 
world and well, Betsy already introduced me.  

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But just to acknowledge, I'm a master student 
at Innovation with Educational Technologies and  

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have been developing in educational software to 
help Deaf children to get through their literacy  

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process in a bilingual perspective, regarding 
written Portuguese and Brazilian sign language.  

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One of the PyLadies cofounders, a fellow member 
from the PSF, also a community service award  

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winner and I've been elected as one member 
of the Board of Directors from the PSF.  

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You can find me on Twitter. And, well, what does 
it really mean to say that PyLadies Brazil became  

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the biggest PyLadies chapter of the world?
First of all, I'd like to acknowledge what  

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PyLadies is. So, we are an international 
mentorship group with a focus on helping  

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more women to become active participants and 
leaders in the Python open source community  

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and our mission is to promote, educate and advance 
a diverse Python community through outreach,  

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education, conferences, events and social 
gatherings. PyLadies aim to have a framework  

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for women. Anyone who's interested in 
Python is encouraged to participate. 

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And, well, going to PyLadies.com/locations, you 
find all the locations with PyLadies all around  

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the world. If there's a PyLadies chapter next 
to you and if not, you can even create one. 

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Going back to what does it mean to be the biggest 
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mention and I'll be mentioning that throughout 
this talk that Brazil is a huge country,  

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fifth largest country in the world so this talk 
is going to be about how we encourage people,  

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especially those ones who live far from the 
city centers and capitals to create new chapters  

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and tell about how the growth of Python user 
groups, in Brazil, were responsible to create  

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a safe and receptive environment to create the 
beautiful community that we have, here in Brazil. 

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There are 30 active PyLadies chapters. We've 
been trying to figure out who's active,  

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who's not active anymore with a task force and 
this map, with all those pins you're seeing,  

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well, there was a lot of work that has been done 
before us, before me and this is something that  

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I'd like to acknowledge, first, in this talk.
Well, one milestone, before PyLadies Brazil  

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creation, was the creation 
of Python Brazil Association.  

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And this association was created a long time 
before PyLadies Brazil started. So, after some  

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friends going to PyCon U.S. With the will of 
sharing knowledge and work on new projects,  

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they created Python Brazil Association, which 
is a nonprofit entity that is responsible for  

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legally and accountants part for the organizers 
of national and regional events. And why this  

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association that we called [Indiscernible] is so 
important. Well, have you ever tried to organize  

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an event? We're organizing online events now and 
I'll tell you, they're not easier than in person  

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events and, well, preventing people from going 
nuts with accounting and legal contract issues,  

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[Indiscernible] started to solve this problem. 
It was created to work as a bridge, especially  

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with accountability. It's not perfect, of course. 
It's made of volunteers and there are some people  

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who are paid, like the accountants, it's a great 
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And, well, even before PyLadies Brazil 
creation, people were talking about diversity,  

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here in Brazil. Brazil is a very py first 
country, it's huge and it's one with the  

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biggest socioeconomic disparities. If you hear 
from the Python community, here in Brazil,  

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we wanted to make a national impact and 
local impact and you talk about differences,  

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and not only gender differences. I love this 
picture. It says it's written in Portuguese,  

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it says that our differences make the difference. 
We make the difference through our differences in  

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the environment we're in. And us, human beings, 
[Indiscernible] so many ways not just gender,  

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but race, ethnicity, religion, gender 
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physical ability and more and more and more.
And, one of the biggest challenges about being  

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in this part of part of this community is how 
do we get all these different human beings  

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to be in the same place and feel welcome and 
feel safe and ready to learn and ready to share?  

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Well, there are some efforts that we 
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One of the efforts that was also done, before 
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So, the Code of Conduct that we use, here in our 
Brazilian community, was written collectively. So,  

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there was a concern about this topic, about making 
people feel safe and welcome to participate in the  

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events from the Brazilian Python community, 
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Well, and I'd also like to acknowledge what 
this woman, this wonderful women I like to call  

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our pioneers, well, we have [Indiscernible] 
which is a friend, [Indiscernible]. They were  

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women who paved the way for me to 
be here, talking to you at PyCon AU.  

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They were the first women who were organizing 
events and having these women in the organization  

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of events and the staff speaking at events, 
it gives us the notion, the sense of, okay,  

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what also what do we also need to have in our 
events? Most of them are moms, so, now, in the  

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last in-person conference we had, we had, like, 
space for children. So, the notion, the sense,  

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the awareness that we need those kind of things. 
They come when we have these kind of people  

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thinking and telling them, like, we need that. We 
need that. So, they paved the way. They were the  

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first women in the Brazilian Python community 
who paved the way for us to have PyLadies. 

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And, I'd love to talk about Fernando, 
who is our official ambassador. In 2013,  

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some friends who go to Python US, Fernando was one 
of the people from Brazil who went to PyCon US.  

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This is about empowering women. Women empowering 
women. So, he started to encourage girls from the  

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Python community, here in Brazil, when he was 
a student because he's a professor to create  

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their own PyLadies chapters, the local chapters, 
here in Brazil. He was one of the first people we  

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talked about, to discuss about PyLadies when we 
had the first chapter created here, in Brazil. 

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So, this was the launching of the PyLadies event 
in Latin America. And in this first event, we had  

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more than 100 participants. And, when we 
were organizing this first event, we heard  

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people saying we wouldn't have even 20 women. You 
aren't going to find 20 women who are interested  

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in programming. This kind of pissed us at 
the time, it kind of took out our courage.  

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We believed the women were going to show up 
and finally, we had more than 100 attendees  

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at the event. It was amazing. For me, it was 
one of the best experiences I had in this event.  

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This was a staff team that we had in the 
first PyLadies event, here in Brazil. And we  

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were organizing everything for this day, we were 
really concerned and worried to create a table an  

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environment to all the women we knew were going to 
show up and we wanted to make them feel safe and  

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welcome and be in an environment that they were 
ready to learn, they would feel safe to be open. 

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So, that was in 2014, in our first event. But the 
talks about PyLadies started in the previous year,  

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in 2013. And then, when I look look back because 
that was some time ago we also got to have  

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our first national conference. So, we had 
to celebrate five years of PyLadies Brazil,  

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we had our first PyLadies Brazil conference, which 
was our national conference. And, I was the chair  

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of this event, back in 2018. And then, we had 
this idea to celebrate PyLadies fifth anniversary  

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of our national network of chapters. We 
planned this event, organized by women  

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only women as speakers and attendees. So, we had, 
like, this conference that took place also in the  

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city that I live and this city was also the same 
place that PyCon Brazil, that year, was happening. 

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So, back then, I was organizing this conference 
and working from, like, call for papers, finding a  

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venue, getting sponsorship, estimating catering, 
food budgets and also gifts for the attendees.  

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And, when I look at this photo, 
which is the official photo from  

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PyLadies Brazil conference in 2018, it fills my 
heart with joy because we managed to have people  

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from, like, four out of five regions of Brazil 
attending this conference and free of charge.  

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And thanks to the PSF and also to 
[Indiscernible] who could provide that to us.  

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We could make the conference free of charge for 
all this women and this conference had a lot of  

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content technical content. 
Content about community management  

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and it was so rich. This day was so rich and it 
was amazing. And that was the first one we taught. 

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Then, we had a second edition in 2019. We didn't 
have one last year, due to the pandemic, the  

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national network of chapters was working on other 
things. But we had the second edition in 2019.  

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We have [Indiscernible], they brought PyLadies 
to the state that hosted Python Brazil in 2019.  

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They recorded the talks. They were 
published on YouTube so if you go  

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to the PyLadies Brazil channel on YouTube, 
you'll find the talks from PyLadies Conf.  

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There was one thing that was different 
between the first and the second,  

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which was the willingness to [Indiscernible] 
for the community, being in doing that,  

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for women only. And this is very important to 
mention, because some of our actions, some of our  

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PyLadies events in our PyLadies Brazil community, 
in our local chapters, we do some mixed events.  

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This one is specifically PyLadies Brazil Conf 
was thought    it was meant to be only for women. 

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And, I've been talking about organizing the first 
PyLadies event in Brazil, organizing the first  

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PyLadies Brazil conference, but it's not 
only that. Here, in Brazil, we have, like,  

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regional events. We have five regions and then 
we have regional events in each one of them  

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and starting organizing or events kind of awakened 
in us the ability to organize events also for the  

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larger community. It kind of makes us feel 
like more capable of not only organizing,  

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but other events, as well. So, again, we're 
a continental country and we have all those  

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regional events so in the north, we have PyCon and 
then in the east, we have PyCon. In the Midwest,  

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we have PyCon [Indiscernible]. In the 
southeast, we have PyCon [Indiscernible]  

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so we have all these regional events and it's 
important to mention that PyLadies are also in  

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the organization of these regional events. So, 
we have these idea    and I love the sentence,  

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like, think global and act local. That's where we 
start the change. Because occupying those spaces,  

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as organizers of this event, is one of the way 
is one of the ways we can change the big picture,  

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by having more women organizing, then having more 
women attending, then having more women speaking  

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at events. So, empowering ourselves to even be on 
the staff team. Who would have thought, you know? 

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Then, we empower ourselves in that sense 
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Well, that's a lot of work. And, it takes and 
I like to say that. It takes our most precious  

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thing, which is our time. [Indiscernible] 
was right, it's work, work, work, work, work.  

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But, [Indiscernible] when I look back and I 
think of all the work that I've been doing  

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for PyLadies, it kind of worked for me, too, you 
know. And, this community is so amazing because,  

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well, personally, I don't work with 
programming or software development  

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or anything like that. I do software development, 
like, for my masters, but I don't work with that.  

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I didn't even work with Python in my masters, but 
being part of this community gave me the awareness  

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that being a teacher doesn't invalidate what I 
do for the community. It made me feel included  

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in a way that I never thought I would.
So, when I remember the first event, I saw  

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some fires on Facebook at the time it was a long 
time ago. And I had lots of people who studied IT  

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on my Facebook and they were like, do you 
know Python? Come join us. I was like,  

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I know Python. I can help. Like, that impostor 
syndrome saying that I wasn't a developer,  

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coming all along. But then I had this feeling 
of, okay, I can do that. I can help with that.  

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And then it made me feel included and being 
a part of PyLadies, a community of women who  

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love coding Python, made me change my 
own ideas of belonging to a community. 

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And, well, we have this famous quote by Brett 
Cannon. Come for the language and stay for  

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the community. It's very famous because it 
makes total sense. Many times, we look for  

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the communities for the language the programming 
language something technical that's being part of  

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the community or going to the events 
can offer us. But we meet the community.  

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We see, like, more there is more than that. We 
make those friends that we we see, like, once  

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a year when we go to the conference and we enjoy 
so many special moments when we see these people. 

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And I love this tweet by Mariatta. It 
says Python is the largest community  

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run programming language on the planet, 
which is both a blessing and a curse.  

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So, being organized by the community keeps the 
language freely available but it relies mostly  

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on efforts of volunteers. So, I like to say 
a big thank you for all of you organizers and  

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volunteers at PyCon Australia, for who, who's been 
organizing events in person, before the pandemic,  

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online events during the pandemic. Thank you so 
much for your work and your effort. It's precious. 

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And now that we started to talk about 
community, you might be asking yourselves,  

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what is a community? Well, I go to Google
[Laughter]. 

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It says a community is a group of people, like, 
living in the same place, having things in common,  

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common interests. So, if we are from the Python 
community, we have at least the same interest  

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about the programming language among other things.
And the Python community has, like, multiple  

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channels of how you can get into the community. 
Like, PyLadies, like Python user groups.  

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And, while this picture    I believe, on your 
left, is better for PyLadies Brazil cofounders  

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finally reunited. While finally reunited? Well, 
PyLadies was the first chapter of Latin America  

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and had its first event in 2014. There was 
a time that [Indiscernible], on your left,  

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traveled to France to study. [Indiscernible] went 
to Germany to live there and [Indiscernible],  

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who's next to me, she had to take some time 
from the community. But the community did not  

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end because the cofounders were gone. One of the 
best parts of this community, it's organicity.  

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We don't need cofounders around all the time 
because the work is done from many other people. 

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And as we talk about the community, it's really 
important, not only, like, when I think about  

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PyLadies Brazil, which is a national network of 
chapters, but also, in our local communities.  

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So, we should be aware, when we think about 
diversity, because thinking about that and  

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talking about that make [Indiscernible] issues and 
we can struggle to share a vision of what is good.  

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So it's important to ask and make sure to the 
members of our communities if they feel that their  

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perspective of what is good is being represented. 
So, they feel like they're being heard. 

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And also, we shouldn't focus only the 
numbers. Do you people feel like they belong?  

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Do they feel welcome? We should put our effort on 
that, because diversity, as [Indiscernible] said,  

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is about demographics, it's about numbers, 
figures. Inclusion is about a sense of belonging. 

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And, when I look back to the first event, I 
felt so welcome and worthy that I was a part of  

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it. And this is a picture of me giving my first 
Python talk at the first PyLadies Brazil event  

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and I was invited by the other cofounders to give 
this talk about how to use Python and I remember,  

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I felt super nervous because we had, like, 
morning of talks with amazing women who work,  

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who have been working as developers for a long 
time, professors from the university and me.  

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The other cofounders knew my different background. 
I am. I am graduated in English. I'm an English  

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teacher. And they knew that and even so, they 
encouraged me give this talk and they knew that  

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I could do it, even when I didn't believe 
I could. So, this is extremely powerful. 

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And, when we think about our national network 
of chapters, we've been changing the scene  

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of the Python community in Brazil and we've 
been changing the scene of our biggest Python  

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conference, Python Brazil. So, I would like 
for you to take a look at these pictures.  

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This one, represents PyLadies Brazil in 2016. 
This other one, PyLadies Brazil at PyCon Brazil  

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2017. This one, my favorite, because 
I was an organizer at this edition,  

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PyLadies at Python Brazil 2018. And this 
one, PyLadies at Python Brazil 2019.  

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So, clearly, the numbers have been changing 
over the years. And, well, how is that possible?  

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Collective funding. Crowdfunding. We started to do 
this campaign, PyLadies of Python Brazil, all of  

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the Brazilian chapters, they were able to answer 
a form about their participating in the community,  

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if they would be attendees, if they'd present a 
talk or tutorial. The community decided how to do  

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it. It is extremely hard and financially hard 
to have our PyLadies to attend Python Brazil.  

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So, when we started to do this 
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Python community, as a whole, helping us.
So, this is an important achievement for  

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the community because it shows how the entire 
community works together, both in organizing  

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and helping us financially. The Brazilian 
Python community works with PyLadies Brazil  

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for inclusion. In Python Brazil 2017, we had 17 
activities offered by women. The percentage number  

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varies a little bit but the numbers of activities 
offered by women grows. In 2018, we had  

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a percentage a little bit lower, but the 
number of the talks given by women increased.  

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The same in 2019. And then in 2020, in 
our first online event, we had our first  

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35 talks by women, which was amazing.
And we also have our assembly PyLadies  

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assembly during PyLadies. We summarize the year 
in terms of actions we did and what we want to do  

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next. And we do that at Python Brazil because it 
is a time that we have    and a place that we have  

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PyLadies from all over the country so we 
can have different ideas and perspectives. 

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And what happened in 2020? We had a pandemic. The 
network of chapters didn't stop. We had the first  

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pop [Indiscernible] PyLadies, which is 
amazing and I love to talk about that  

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in this wonderful women in charge, 
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PyLadies was a project developed by PyLadies 
Brazil to promote the change of knowledge between  

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our chapters. We had weekly interviews involving 
two interviewer chapters and one interviewee,  

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it was an interview about the story 
and curiosities of the chapter  

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and then we have a lecture from the chapter 
to talk about content the day [Indiscernible]. 

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We also, in 2020, divided better our structured 
communication on Slack. So we have a group on  

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[Indiscernible] with around 600 women, so many 
messages were lost. So, we divided ourselves in  

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workgroups and study groups all open on Slack.
We also started producing material for  

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introduction to Python course for women who know 
how to code in another programming language. So,  

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all the content, it's in our repo from PyLadies 
Brazil and you can find all the materials. They  

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have they are under a [Indiscernible] license, 
which allows the material to be modified,  

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redistributed, necessarily to maintain the 
same type of license. And this project was  

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only possible thanks to all these amazing 
women who were dedicated to this project. 

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And, well, I'm almost at the end of it. And, 
we don't see PyLadies as a different community.  

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It's just like an open door to 
the brother Python community.  

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Making people feel comfortable 
with the support that we provide.  

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And you may be asking yourself, like, how can 
I help? There are various ways to do that.  

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Buy a T-Shirt helps us financially. Look 
for women to give talks, not just about  

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community. There are plenty of women who are more 
than capable of giving great technical talk. And,  

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like, yeah, listen to us. Listen to us. I 
believe that listening to us is the main  

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point of how you can help. Listen to us. Listen 
to our concerns. Our complaints. Because we are  

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the ones who are living it, like, in our skins.
And I want to leave you with a question. Working  

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so much to have the community going on, even 
in a pandemic year. So, how do you see the  

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future of our community in five years? How 
is PyLadies going to look like in five years?  

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And I really hope it's more diverse 
and beautiful, as I can see now. 

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Finally, I want to leave you 
with this quote by Maya Angelou.  

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People forget what you said or did but 
people will never forget how you made  

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them feel. Being part of PyLadies empowered 
me so much. It made me believe in myself.  

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[Indiscernible] that I'm capable. I 
know that those people are there for me  

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and they always remind me in those days that we 
are blue and we don't feel capable, they're there. 

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PyLadies Brazil gave me a 
network of really close friends  

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that I that live, like, far from me and I 
would never meet if it wasn't for PyLadies.  

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I'm really thankful and it's so powerful 
how they made me feel and that's what I  

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want for other women, to have them feel like 
they're capable. They're worthy. They're good. 

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Thank you so much for your time. Thank you 
so much for listening to me. If you have  

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any I don't know, I don't think we have time 
for questions. I've been speaking so much.  

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But, you can find me on Twitter or send 
me an email if you have any questions or  

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doubts. Thank you so much for your time.
>> Thank you so much, Debora. I'm sure  

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the whole audience feels [Indiscernible] just 
seeing the joy in your community has, like,  

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warmed my heart and, like, inspired me.
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>> Yeah, and I know just how much work goes into 
community building and organizing. I'm sure many  

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others in the audience do. So, congratulations to 
you and your whole community on what you've built. 

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DÉBORA AZEVEDO: Thank you.
>> We don't have time for  

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questions but there are some good questions 
there. So, do you have some time, Debora,  

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to go into the text chat in Venueless, after 
this, to answer some questions in the text chat? 

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DÉBORA AZEVEDO: Yeah, of course.
>> All right. That's the Curlyboi Theatre chat,  

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in the channel section in the Venueless menu. I 
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and then you can have a nice chat with D bora.
Thank you, again,  

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Debora. That was a wonderful talk.
DÉBORA AZEVEDO: Thank you so much for having me. 

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>> And we'll all be back for our next talk at 
11:15 conference time, everyone. See you shortly.